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Mar 26

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Defense Challenges and Future Opportunities

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Summary

On March 26, the 21st Century Defense Initiative at Brookings hosted its first annual Military and Federal Fellow Research Symposium, featuring the independent and cutting-edge research produced by members of each military service and select federal agencies during their time in think tanks and academia. Organized by the fellows themselves, the symposium provided a greater awareness of the valuable policy work our defense leaders are producing at think tanks and research institutions across the nation.

The theme of this first symposium was “Defense Challenges and Future Opportunities.” Following a keynote address by Lieutenant General John M. Paxton Jr., director of strategic plans and policy for the Joint Staff and a former federal executive fellow at Brookings, panel discussions focused on the fellows’ independent research findings in the areas of irregular warfare, acquisition and logistics, alliance warfare, and manpower and infrastructure challenges.

After each panel, participants took audience questions.

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PRESENTATION NOTES:

Panel I: Irregular Threats 

Panel II: Acquisition and Logistics Panel III: Alliance Warfare Panel IV: Manpower and Readiness

Details

March 26, 2010

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM EDT

The Brookings Institution

Falk Auditorium

1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW

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Event Agenda

  • Introduction

    • Peter W. Singer

      Director

      Foreign Policy

      View Bio

  • Keynote Address

    • Lieutenant General John M. Paxton, Jr.

      Director, Strategic Plans and Policy of The Joint Staff

  • Panel 1: Irregular Threats

    • David Killcullen

      Author, The Accidental Guerilla (Oxford University Press, 2009)

    • John Griffin, “Putting Somali Pirates Out of Business”

      Captain, U.S. Navy

      Center for Strategic and International Studies

    • Matthew Frankel, “The The ABCs of HVTs”

      Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution

    • Anthony Popiel, “Protection of Our Waterways”

      Captain, U.S. Coast Guard

      Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution

  • Panel 2 (Lunch): Acquisition and Logistics

    • Vago Muradian

      Editor, Defense News

    • Colonel Timothy Chyma, “Rapid Acquisition”

      University of Texas

    • Tom Miller, “A National Level Vision Needed for the Defense Sustainment Industrial Base“

      Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force

      Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution

    • Lieutenant Colonel Shahnaz Punjani

      National Defense Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

  • Panel 3: Alliance Warfare

    • Steven Pifer

      Director

      Foreign Policy

      View Bio

    • Patrick Warren, “NATO Survival: Decisions for the Alliance”

      Colonel, U.S. Army

      Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution

    • Gregory Parker, “Modular Seabasing and 21st Century Alliances: Thinking in Sight of the Box”

      Commander, U.S. Navy

      Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution

    • Hiroaki Uchikura, “U.S.-Japan Interoperability"

      Colonel, Japan Air Self-Defense Force

      Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution

  • Panel 4: Manpower and Readiness

    • Portrait: Michael O'Hanlon

      Michael E. O'Hanlon

      Director of Research and Senior Fellow

      Foreign Policy

      View Bio

    • Colonel Gregory Dewitt, “Strategic Black Officer Capital Investment: Increasing Competiveness for General Officer”

      The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

    • Charles A. McLean II, “Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Implementation Considerations for Quartering the Force”

      Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps

      Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution

    • Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Pounding, “Capturing the Human High Ground: Developing Army Leader Adaptability”

      Texas A&M University

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