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The 34th IFPA-Fletcher
Conference on
National Security Strategy and Policy:
Security Planning
and Military Transformation
December
2-3, 2003
U.S. Chamber of
Commerce Building
Lafayette Square, 1615 H Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
Transcripts and Presentations
Day 1
Conference Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., President, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Vice Admiral Kevin P. Green, USN, Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy & Operations
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Session 1: The Changing Context of Security Planning
Mr. Andrew Hoehn, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Strategy
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Mr. Robert D. Kaplan, author and correspondent for
the Atlantic Monthly
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Dr. Paul Bracken, Professor of Management
and Political Science,
Yale University
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Dr. Hans Binnendijk, Director, the Center of Technology and
National Security Policy, National Defense University
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Luncheon and Address
Introduction: Dr. Charles M. Perry, Vice President and Director of Studies, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis
Address: The Honorable John Bolton, Under Secretary of State
for Arms Control and International Security
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Session 2:Dissuading and Deterring 21st Century Threats: Operationalizing the New Strategic Triad
Dr. Stephen M. Younger, Director,
Defense Threat Reduction Agency
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Admiral James O. Ellis Jr., USN, Commander,
U.S. Strategic Command
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Dr. J.D. Crouch, Professor, Department of Defense and
Strategic Studies, Southwest Missouri State University, and former Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
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Dr. William Schneider, Jr., Chairman, Defense Science
Board
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Dr. Keith B. Payne, President, National Institute
for Public Policy, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Forces Policy
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Session 3: Combatant Command Views on Organizing and Implementing National Defense Strategies
General James T. Hill, USA, Commander,
U.S. Southern Command
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Vice Admiral Eric T. Olson, USN, Deputy Commander,
U.S. Special Operations Command
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Lieutenant General Edward G. Anderson III, USA, Deputy Commander,
U.S. Northern Command
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Dinner and Address
Introduction: Dr. Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
Address: Congressman Curt Weldon, Vice
Chairman, House Armed Services Committee, and Chairman, Tactical
and Land Forces Subcommittee
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Day 2
Opening Keynote Address
Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, USN (Ret.), Director,
Office of Force Transformation
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Session 4: Transformation for the New Era: Service Perspectives
Admiral Vernon E. Clark, USN, Chief
of Naval Operations
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General Peter J. Schoomaker, USA, Chief of Staff, U.S.
Army
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General Michael W. Hagee, USMC, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
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Lt. General Duncan J. McNabb, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Plans and Programs, U.S. Air Force
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Lunch Day 2
Introduction: Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis
General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Session 5: Coalition Operations and Alliance Transformation
Mr. Nobukatsu Kanehara, Counselor
for Political Affairs, Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C.
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Brigadier Mark Kelly, Royal Australian Army, is
Director, Combined Planning Group, U.S. Central Command
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Lieutenant General Robert W. Wagner, USA, Deputy Commander,
U.S. Joint Forces Command
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Mr. Tony Brenton, Deputy Head of Mission, British
Embassy, Washington, D.C.
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Mr. Ovidiu Dranga, Deputy Secretary of State for Euro-Atlantic Integration
and Defense Policy, Ministry of National Defense, Romania
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