10 June - Washington, DC
1) Introduction and Opening Remarks - Dr. Richard Danzig (CNAS Board of Directors) and Dr. Leo MacKay (CNAS Board of Directors).
2) Panel Number 1: Future of the Force -- Thomas Ricks (CNAS Senior Fellow / Panel Chair), Admiral Eric Olson (Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command), Dr. John Nagl (CNAS President), Dr. Peter Singer (Brookings Institution), and Jim Thomas (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments).
3) Panel Number 2: Beyond Afghanistan: America's Enduring Interests in Central and South Asia -- Lieutenant General David Barno (CNAS Senior Advisor / Panel Chair), Ambassador Ryan Crocker (Texas A&M University), Richard Fontaine (CNAS Senior Fellow), Dr. Paul Pillar (Georgetown University), and Dr. Ashley Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
4) Keynote Address -- Honorable Michí¨le Flournoy (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense).
5) Panel Number 3: Strategy in the Age of Obama: Engagement and its Limits -- Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns (Harvard University / Panel Chair), Elliott Abrams (Council on Foreign Relations), Dr. Patrick Cronin (CNAS Senior Advisor), Dr. Kristin Lord (CNAS VP), David Sanger (New York Times), and Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter (Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State)
6) Closing Remarks -- Nathaniel Fick (CNAS CEO).
Comments
Oh, snap! Not a response to this specific promotion, but a good counterpoint nonetheless <a href="http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1325">from Bernard Finel</a>.
<blockquote><em>"No one wants to be the next McKiernan. Flournoy gets tossed in there because of the way shes staffed OSD policy, which ought to be a center for rigorous assessment, but has instead been just part of the Amen corner.<br /><br />
The politicians did indeed get us into this mess, but theyve kept us in the mess and gotten us in there deeper because theyve allowed themselves to be tempted by the promises of the COINdinistas."</em> - <a href="http://www.bernardfinel.com/?p=1325&cpage=1#comment-625">Finel</a></blo…;
<em>"And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many."</em> - Matthew 24:11 (King James Version)