The first day, co-sponsored with the Israeli Defense Forces Logistics Command, will focus on defense issues with days two and three respectively covering challenges regarding the soldier in modern war and technological developments in the surface-to-surface missile defense arena.
This year's international speakers supporting the ILWS join an elite group of former presenters that includes General (British Army, ret) Rupert Smith, author Joseph Galloway, and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. The agenda for Latrun V can be found here. Those interested in attending will find more information and a program here.
As an end note - we are much "more than pleased" to support, in any way we can, this professional military exchange amongst the associated parties.
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Your right Rex. While on the subject of armor museums, the General George Patton Museum (National Museum of Cavalry & Armor) at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, is located within the territory formerly occupied by the Shawnees. Most Native Americans were forced to leave Kentucky during the Indian Removals of the 1800's.
I'm sure it will be a fascinating conference, but US policy does not regard the Armor Corps Museum and Memorial as being definitively located within Israel. Rather, the museum is located in the Latrun Salient at the site of a former Mandate-era British police fort in what was officially "No Man's Land" under the 1949 Armistice Agreement. The building was actually held by Jordan until it was occupied by Israel in 1967. Both Israel and the Palestinians claim the territory.
The canny monks of the nearby Trappist monastery get around the thorny issue of territorial ownership by sometimes labelling their wine "product of the Holy Land." ;)