Event: American Grand Strategy and Seapower Aug 4, 2011

American Grand Strategy and Seapower
August 4, 2011  The Army and Navy Club

9:00-9:15
Welcome and Introduction

Mr. Michael Gerson, CNA

 9:15-10:30
Session 1: U.S. Grand Strategy in the 21st Century

 "Can the United States really have a grand strategy?"

Dr. Walter McDougall, Professor of History and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania

"U.S. Grand Strategy and the Role of Domestic Politics"

Dr. Kevin Narizny, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University

 "U.S. Grand Strategy and the Role of the Military"

Dr. Barry Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science, MIT

 Dr. Christopher Layne, Professor and Robert M. Gates Chair in Intelligence and National Security, George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M Univeristy

 10:30-10:45
Break

 10:45-12:00
Session 2: The Emerging Security Environment

"No Major Threats"

Dr. John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies and Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

 "The Future of Great Power Competition"

Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, President, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

 "Failing States and Transnational Threats"

Mr. Andrew Hoehn, Vice President and Director of Project Air Force, RAND Corporation (invited)

 12:00-1:15
Working Lunch and Keynote Address

The Honorable Richard Danzig, former Secretary of the Navy

 1:15-1:30
Break

 1:30-2:45
Seapower and the “Global System”

 "The Case for Goliath"

Dr. Michael Mandelbam, Christian A. Herter Professor and Director, American Foreign Policy Program, SAIS

"The Power Problem"

Dr. Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, CATO Institute

 "Between Big Wars and Shaping/Influence"

Dr. James Wirtz, Dean, School of International Graduate Studies, Naval Postgraduate School

 2:45-3:00
Break

 3:00-4:00
Landpower and Airpower Perspectives on Grand Strategy and the Emerging Security Environment

 "Landpower"

Major General Robert Scales, US Army (ret.), CEO, Colgen LP

 "Airpower"

Lieutenant General David Deptula, US Air Force (ret.), CEO and
Managing Director, Mav6

4:00-4:15
Break

4:15-5:15
U.S. Grand Strategy and the Role of Seapower

The Honorable Seth Cropsey, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Senior Advisor, CNA

 Rear Admiral Michael McDevitt, US Navy (ret.), Senior Fellow and former Director of Strategic Studies, CNA

 Mr. Ron O’Rourke, Congressional Research Service

 5:15-5:30
Concluding Remarks

Captain Peter Swartz, US Navy (ret.), CNA