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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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