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PROGRAM OF
EVENTS
TUESDAY,
JUNE 16
(Civilian-businessattire/Military-summer white orserviceequivalent)
7:30
a.m.
Guest
Registration
8:30 Administrative Remarks
8:40
Keynote
Address:
All
Domain Accessand FutureChallenges
Admiral
Michelle
J.
Howard,U.S.Navy,ViceChiefof NavalOperations
9:00 Questions andAnswers
9:20
Keynote
Address
Dr.Andrew F.Krepinevich,Center
for
StrategicandBudgetaryAssessments)
10:10
Break
10:30 Panel 1:ContestedArenas
Dr.PatrickM. Cronin,Centerfor aNew AmericanSecurity
Dr.BernardHaykel,Princeton University
Dr.NikolasK.Gvosdev,U.S.Naval
War
College
Moderator:
Dr. HayatAlvi, U.S.Naval
War
College
12 :00
p.m. lunch
1:30
Keynote
Address
Lieutenant GeneralKenneth
J.
Glueck, Jr.,U.S
Marine
Corps,DeputyCommandant
for Combat Development and Integration
2: 15 Break
2:30 Panel2:Challenges
and
Trends
Dr.Mathew Burrows,
Atlantic
Council
Dr.ChrisC.Demchak,U.S.Naval
War College
ProfessorJoelP.Trachtman, TuftsUniversity
Moderator:
Dr.Andrea
J.
Dew, U.S.Naval
War
College
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 (Civilian-business
attire/Military-summer
white or service equivalent)
8:30
a.m. Keynote
Address
Dr.Peter W.Singer, New AmericaFoundation
9:30 Break/Move to seminar locations
10:00 Seminars
11:30 lunch Break
1:00
p.m. Keynote
Address:An Interview
The Honorable HenryM. Paulson,Jr.,The Paulson
Institute
with Dr.John F.Garofano, U.S.NavalWar College
2:15
Panel3:National, Military,
Maritime
Strategy
Dr.ThomasG.
Mahnken,
U.S.NavalWar College
Mr. Ronald O'Rourke,Congressional ResearchService
ViceAdmiral FrankC.Pandolfe,U.S.Navy,StrategicPlansand Policy (J-5),Joint Staff
Dr.CarlyleA.Thayer,Universityof NewSouthWales,AustralianDefenceForceAcademy
Moderator: Dr.JamesR Holmes,U.S.Naval War College
4:00
Adjourn
1
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C RLYLE
A
TH YER
Carlyle A. Thayer is Professor Emeritus at The University of New South Wales (UNSW) at the Australian
Defence Force Academy (ADFA), Canberra. He was educated at Brown University and holds an M.A.
degree in Southeast Asian Studies
from
Yale and a PhD in International Relations
from
The Australian
National University. Thayer joined the UNSW in 1979 and
taught
first in The Faculty of
Military
Studies at
the The Royal
Military
College-Duntroon (1979-85) before transferring to Australian Defence Force
Academy. He was given leave in
the
national interest to take up the position of Deputy Chair of the
Department of Regional Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center
for
Security Studies
APCSS),
U.S. Pacific
Command, Hawaii (1999-02). On return to Australia he was seconded to Deakin University and served as
On-Site Academic Co-ordinator at Weston Creek
for
the Defence and Strategic Studies Course, the
senior course, at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies CDSS) at the Australian Defence College
(2002-04). He later directed Regional Security Studies at the Australian Command and Staff College
(2006-07 and 2010).
Professor Thayer was the
C
V. Starr Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced
International Studies, Johns Hopkins University in Washington (2005) and the Inaugural Frances M. and
Stephen F. Fuller Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Center
for
International Studies, Ohio University
(2008). He is also director of Thayer Consultancy, a small business registered in Australia in 2002 that
provides political analysis of current regional security issues and
other
research support to selected
clients. Thayer wr ites a regular column on Southeast Asia defence and security
for
The Diplomat.
Professor Thayer is the
author
of over 500 publications including: Southeast Asia; Patterns
o
Security Cooperation
ASPI
Strategy Report. Canberra: Australian Strategic Policy Institute, 2010.
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