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Living in a city sometimes makes you feel a bit lost when it comes to security ... Looking at those wires, I'm just wondering if any burglar would ever be caught by them ...
Proto-KGB agents, amidst preparations for Obama’s speech today.
We are staying the same hotel as Obama, and the security detail is fascinating in its detail. Watched the motorcade arriving at midnight last night as we happened to be returning from dinner at the same time.
The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
2014 AGENDA
OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"
The Honorable Robert O. Work
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability
Jim Dyer
Principal, Podesta Group,
and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations
Charles J. Houy
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Robert F. Hale
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer
Sid Ashworth
Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Moderator:
Clark A. Murdock
Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State
Kurt Campbell
Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,
and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Website Presentation:
Mira Rapp Hooper
Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Moderator:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,
and Associate Professor, Georgetown University
III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark Perry
Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command
COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)
Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College
Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State
Moderator:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
IV. Health and Security in Fragile States
Gayle Smith
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council
Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin
Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross
Jason Cone
Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Nancy E. Lindborg
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
Talia Dubovi
Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense
William J. Lynn III
CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,
and former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert J. Stevens
Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Clayton M. Jones
Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins
Pierre Chao
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS
Moderator:
Andrew P. Hunter
Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
II. Iraq in the Balance
VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator:
Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS
III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War
Arati Prabhakar
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.
Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS
IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa
Tom Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anne A. Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs
Ambassador Donald Lu
Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State
Jeremy Konyndyk
Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.
MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.
I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Kori Schake
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign
Moderator:
David E. Sanger
National Security Correspondent, New York Times
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M
I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Michèle Flournoy
Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
John E. McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Charles B. Curtis
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Joshua B. Bolten
Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff
Moderators:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS
*Please note that this session is off-the-record
Contributing CSIS Experts:
Frank A. Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
Andrew C. Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Jeffrey Mankoff
Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Juan Zarate
Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
Programs
GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Regions
AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA
The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
2014 AGENDA
OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"
The Honorable Robert O. Work
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability
Jim Dyer
Principal, Podesta Group,
and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations
Charles J. Houy
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Robert F. Hale
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer
Sid Ashworth
Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Moderator:
Clark A. Murdock
Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State
Kurt Campbell
Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,
and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Website Presentation:
Mira Rapp Hooper
Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Moderator:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,
and Associate Professor, Georgetown University
III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark Perry
Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command
COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)
Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College
Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State
Moderator:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
IV. Health and Security in Fragile States
Gayle Smith
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council
Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin
Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross
Jason Cone
Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Nancy E. Lindborg
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
Talia Dubovi
Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense
William J. Lynn III
CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,
and former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert J. Stevens
Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Clayton M. Jones
Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins
Pierre Chao
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS
Moderator:
Andrew P. Hunter
Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
II. Iraq in the Balance
VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator:
Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS
III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War
Arati Prabhakar
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.
Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS
IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa
Tom Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anne A. Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs
Ambassador Donald Lu
Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State
Jeremy Konyndyk
Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.
MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.
I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Kori Schake
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign
Moderator:
David E. Sanger
National Security Correspondent, New York Times
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M
I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Michèle Flournoy
Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
John E. McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Charles B. Curtis
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Joshua B. Bolten
Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff
Moderators:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS
*Please note that this session is off-the-record
Contributing CSIS Experts:
Frank A. Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
Andrew C. Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Jeffrey Mankoff
Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Juan Zarate
Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
Programs
GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Regions
AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA
The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
2014 AGENDA
OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"
The Honorable Robert O. Work
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability
Jim Dyer
Principal, Podesta Group,
and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations
Charles J. Houy
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Robert F. Hale
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer
Sid Ashworth
Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Moderator:
Clark A. Murdock
Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State
Kurt Campbell
Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,
and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Website Presentation:
Mira Rapp Hooper
Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Moderator:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,
and Associate Professor, Georgetown University
III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark Perry
Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command
COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)
Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College
Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State
Moderator:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
IV. Health and Security in Fragile States
Gayle Smith
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council
Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin
Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross
Jason Cone
Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Nancy E. Lindborg
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
Talia Dubovi
Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense
William J. Lynn III
CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,
and former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert J. Stevens
Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Clayton M. Jones
Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins
Pierre Chao
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS
Moderator:
Andrew P. Hunter
Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
II. Iraq in the Balance
VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator:
Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS
III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War
Arati Prabhakar
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.
Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS
IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa
Tom Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anne A. Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs
Ambassador Donald Lu
Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State
Jeremy Konyndyk
Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.
MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.
I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Kori Schake
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign
Moderator:
David E. Sanger
National Security Correspondent, New York Times
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M
I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Michèle Flournoy
Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
John E. McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Charles B. Curtis
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Joshua B. Bolten
Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff
Moderators:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS
*Please note that this session is off-the-record
Contributing CSIS Experts:
Frank A. Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
Andrew C. Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Jeffrey Mankoff
Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Juan Zarate
Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
Programs
GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Regions
AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA
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The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
2014 AGENDA
OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"
The Honorable Robert O. Work
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability
Jim Dyer
Principal, Podesta Group,
and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations
Charles J. Houy
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Robert F. Hale
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer
Sid Ashworth
Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Moderator:
Clark A. Murdock
Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State
Kurt Campbell
Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,
and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Website Presentation:
Mira Rapp Hooper
Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Moderator:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,
and Associate Professor, Georgetown University
III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark Perry
Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command
COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)
Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College
Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State
Moderator:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
IV. Health and Security in Fragile States
Gayle Smith
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council
Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin
Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross
Jason Cone
Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Nancy E. Lindborg
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
Talia Dubovi
Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense
William J. Lynn III
CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,
and former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert J. Stevens
Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Clayton M. Jones
Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins
Pierre Chao
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS
Moderator:
Andrew P. Hunter
Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
II. Iraq in the Balance
VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator:
Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS
III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War
Arati Prabhakar
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.
Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS
IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa
Tom Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anne A. Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs
Ambassador Donald Lu
Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State
Jeremy Konyndyk
Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.
MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.
I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Kori Schake
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign
Moderator:
David E. Sanger
National Security Correspondent, New York Times
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M
I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Michèle Flournoy
Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
John E. McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Charles B. Curtis
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Joshua B. Bolten
Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff
Moderators:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS
*Please note that this session is off-the-record
Contributing CSIS Experts:
Frank A. Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
Andrew C. Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Jeffrey Mankoff
Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Juan Zarate
Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
Programs
GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Regions
AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA
Questions about the security of U.S. borders and effectiveness of U.S. border controls have been compounded by recent events in Europe and migration from Central America. However, political rhetoric obscures the complexity of North American border relations, which are actually dominated by the growth of beneficial and legal cross-border trade and travel.
On March 16, Foreign Policy at Brookings’s Latin America Initiative and Americas Society/Council of the Americas co-hosted a two-panel discussion exploring how new policies for the U.S.-Mexico border can balance the benefits of a continued rise of legal travel and trade with the simultaneous need for Mexico and the United States to work collaboratively to improve border security.
Photos by Paul Morigi
The dangers of a monoculture, where one security 'feature' is easily circumvented by not using the 'appropriate' software. In this case, Outlook Web Access is written with Internet Explorer in mind, and the NHS was naive enough to fall for the Microsoft marketing tricks
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when i look in the mirror, i really wonder what i’m seeing. who is thisperson? what is she trying to say? what does she want? even if i can’t answer these questions, i can see the potential. i can see it, lying just underneath the skin, far inside the bones. there is strength here.
The 2014 Global Security Forum will be held on Wednesday, November 12th from 8:00 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at CSIS headquarters located at 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
2014 AGENDA
OPENING SESSION: 8:00 A.M. TO 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Address: "Strategic and Budgetary Dynamics Facing the U.S. Military"
The Honorable Robert O. Work
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS I: 9:30-10:45 A.M.
I. Sequestration and the Politics of Defense Affordability
Jim Dyer
Principal, Podesta Group,
and former Staff Director, House Committee on Appropriations
Charles J. Houy
Former Staff Director, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Robert F. Hale
Former Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer
Sid Ashworth
Corporate Vice President, Government Relations, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and former Staff Director, Defense Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Appropriations
Moderator:
Clark A. Murdock
Senior Adviser and Director, Defense and National Security Group and Project on Nuclear Issues, CSIS
II. Troubled Seas: Maritime Tension in Asia
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International,
and former Deputy Secretary of State
Kurt Campbell
Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO, The Asia Group,
and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Bonnie S. Glaser
Senior Adviser for Asia, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS
Website Presentation:
Mira Rapp Hooper
Fellow, Asia Program, and Director, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, CSIS
Moderator:
Michael J. Green
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS,
and Associate Professor, Georgetown University
III. Civil-Military Relations: The Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan
Mark Perry
Author, The Most Dangerous Man in America and Partners in Command
COL Richard Lacquement (ret.)
Dean, School of Strategic Landpower, Army War College
Eliot A. Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Counselor, Department of State
Moderator:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
IV. Health and Security in Fragile States
Gayle Smith
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Development, Democracy, and Humanitarian Assistance Issues, National Security Council
Bruce Eshaya-Chauvin
Medical Adviser, Health Care in Danger, International Committee of the Red Cross
Jason Cone
Director of Communications, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Nancy E. Lindborg
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
Talia Dubovi
Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS II: 11:00 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
I. The Defense Industrial Base and Federated Defense
William J. Lynn III
CEO, Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies,
and former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Robert J. Stevens
Former Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Clayton M. Jones
Former Chairman and CEO, Rockwell Collins
Pierre Chao
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Renaissance Strategic Advisors, and Senior Associate, Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, CSIS
Moderator:
Andrew P. Hunter
Director, Defense-Industrial Initatives Group, and Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
II. Iraq in the Balance
VADM Robert S. Harward (ret.)
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UAE, and former Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Moderator:
Jon B. Alterman
Senior Vice President, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and Director, Middle East Program, CSIS
III. Military Innovation and Changing Ways of War
Arati Prabhakar
Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Lt. Gen Robert E. Schmidle Jr.
Principal Deputy Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Moderator:
Maren Leed
Senior Adviser, Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS
IV. Expanded U.S. Engagement to Combat Ebola in West Africa
Tom Frieden
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Anne A. Witkowsky
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Stability and Humanitarian Affairs
Ambassador Donald Lu
Deputy Coordinator for Ebola Response, U.S. Department of State
Jeremy Konyndyk
Director, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
Moderator:
J. Stephen Morrison
Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center, CSIS
LUNCH: 12:15-12:45 P.M.
MID-DAY PLENARY SESSION: 12:45-1:45 P.M.
I. Looking Ahead to 2017: Creating a Renewed Vision for U.S. Leadership in the World
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies, Senior Adviser, International Security Program, CSIS, and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Kori Schake
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Senior Policy Adviser to the McCain-Palin Campaign
Moderator:
David E. Sanger
National Security Correspondent, New York Times
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: 2:00-3:30 P.M
I. A Simulated Crisis with Russia: European Energy and Other Unconventional Challenges
Richard L. Armitage
President, Armitage International, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Michèle Flournoy
Cofounder and CEO, Center for a New American Security, and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
General James E. Cartwright (ret.)
Harold Brown Chair in Defense Policy Studies, CSIS, and former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
John E. McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and former Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
James B. Steinberg
Dean, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, and former Deputy Secretary of State
Charles B. Curtis
Senior Adviser, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS, and former Deputy Secretary of Energy
Joshua B. Bolten
Managing Director, Rock Creek Global Advisors, and former White House Chief of Staff
Moderators:
Kathleen H. Hicks
Senior Vice President, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and Director, International Security Program, CSIS
Heather A. Conley
Senior Vice Presdient for Europe, Eurasia, adn the Arctic, and Director, Europe Program, CSIS
*Please note that this session is off-the-record
Contributing CSIS Experts:
Frank A. Verrastro
Senior Vice President and James R. Schlesinger Chair for Energy and Geopolitics, CSIS
Sarah O. Ladislaw
Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
Edward C. Chow
Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS
James A. Lewis
Director and Senior Fellow, Strategic Technologies Program, CSIS
Andrew C. Kuchins
Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Jeffrey Mankoff
Deputy Director and Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS
Juan Zarate
Senior Advsier, Transnational Threats Project and Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, CSIS
Programs
GLOBAL SECURITY FORUM
Topics
DEFENSE AND SECURITY, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Regions
AFGHANISTAN, ASIA, IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, RUSSIA
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YAVORIV, Ukraine – A Soldier from U.S. Army Europe’s Charlie Co., 173rd Airborne Brigade pulls security from atop a Ukrainian military vehicle during a convoy exercise lane at Rapid Trident 2014 here, Sept. 18. Rapid Trident is an annual U.S. Army Europe conducted, Ukrainian led multinational exercise designed to enhance interoperability with allied and partner nations while promoting regional stability and security. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Joshua Leonard)
Security is tight at Windsor Castle so one goes through an airport style check on the way in. My Swiss Army Knife was placed in a bag tagged with the number 255 and this was written on my ticket so that I could reclaim it when I came out … however, I forgot to do so!
Strolling along about half an hour before the coach left I suddenly realised … I ran, then walked when I got puffed out, back to the entrance to the castle. It was shut but people were still coming out of the exit; happily I was able to get my knife from the staff who had transferred it from the way in to the way out :)
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