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SESSION 1: The Future of Warfare – What should be anticipated?
Policy Issues; Asymmetric Conflict; State on State Warfare? Deterrence. Are we preparing ourselves to meet the main risks of the 2020s and 2030s? What is, and will be, the role of R&D?
Opening Address: Setting the Scene
Rear Admiral Chris Parry (Confirmed)
Director General Development, Concepts and Doctrine, DCDC
Keynote Address: Topic to be confirmed
Lieutenant General Sir David Richards (Confirmed)
Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
Keynote Address: Topic to be confirmed
Lieutenant General James Mattis (Confirmed)
Commander, United States Marine Forces Central Command
Analytical Assessment
Dr Anthony Cordesman (Confirmed)
Arleigh A Burke Chair in Strategy, CSIS
The Transformation Agenda to 2025
Lieutenant General Dick Applegate (Confirmed)
Chief of Defence Materiel (Land), MoD
Communications at the cutting edge
Mr Nick Bobay (Confirmed)
Managing Director, ITT Defence Ltd
Mr John Greenhalgh (Confirmed)
Head of Business Development, ITT Defence Ltd
Panel Discussion on future capability requirements and the transformation agenda
SESSION 2: Protecting Freedom of the Seas, Littorals and Choke Points if Globalisation breaks down
Naval requirements and expeditionary capabilities in the light of the 2007 MoD Strategic Outlook and the recent CNA Report by the eleven US Generals. What are the equipment implications? How can industry contribute most to meeting the naval and expeditionary requirements that may well confront us?
As seen from Paris
Vice Admiral Gérard Valin (Confirmed)
DCOS (Plans & Capabilities), French Navy
How the US is preparing itself
Captain Peter Swartz (Confirmed)
Senior Analyst, The Center for Naval Analyses, US
Comment
Captain Kevin Lyles (Confirmed)
Chief, International Security Strategy Branch, US Navy
Panel Discussion
Lunchtime Addresses: Capability Issues
Lieutenant General David Hurley (Confirmed)
Chief of Capability Development Executive, Australian DoD
SESSION 3: After Iraq and Afghanistan - Dealing with Failed and Failing States
What are the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan? Will more interventions be required? How should they be organised? What are the manpower and equipment implications? Can Defence and other arms of the government be successfully coordinated? When do demographic factors help or hinder military stabilisation effors? Are acquisition timespans too long? Are acquisitions too costly? Are acquisitions sufficiently flexible? Have the US, the UK and their Allies the balance of capabilities to deal with extreme uncertainty? How can corporates best assist governments in achieving effectivve transformation? Should advance be incremental and evolutionary rather than revolutionary?
Thoughts on the future
Dr Anthony Cordesman (Confirmed)
Arleigh A Burke Chair in Strategy, CSIS
Operational Experience and the future
Brigadier General David Fraser (Confirmed)
Former Regional Commander South in Afghanistan, Canada
Where can we succeed? Where will we fail? The demographic dimension
Professor Gunnar Heinsohn (Confirmed)
Director, Raphael-Lemkin-Institute, University of Bremen
How can we plan to avoid fighting future engagements with today’s equipment?
Mr Peter Felstead (Confirmed)
Editor, Jane’s Defence Weekly
Can we win hearts and minds without real precision engagement?
General Sir Jack Deverell (Confirmed)
Former Commander NATO Armed Forces North and adviser to NATO on integrating new member countries
Panel Discussion followed by Close of conference
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