Speakers

Lieutenant General Applegate,
Chief of Defence Materiel (Land) UK MoD

Lieutenant General Dick Applegate was appointed in January 2007 as Chief of Materiel (Land) for the Defence Equipment and Support organisation, forming on 2nd April 2007. He is accountable to Chief Defence Materiel for ensuring confidence in the operational focus of DE&S and that its output is coherent and effective. He holds also the appointment of Quarter Master General and is a member of the Army Board.

Lieutenant General Applegate was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974. He served as Military Assistant and Speechwriter to three Supreme Allied Commanders Europe, before assuming command of 19th Regiment RA (The Highland Gunners). Post command he led on work on the Future Army and thereafter was Commander Royal Artillery, 3rd (UK) Division, commanding the Division’s Offensive Support Group and Deputy Commander of the Division for operations. He has been a Director of Equipment Capability and, most recently, was Capability Manager (Battlespace Manoeuvre), Master General of the Ordnance (MGO) and a member of the Army Board.

He has seen service in UK, BAOR, Northern Ireland, Belize, Kenya, Hong Kong, Bosnia and Kosovo. His operational and combat experience includes command of the UN and European Rapid Reaction Force Artillery Group in Bosnia in 1995, command of a NATO sector in Bosnia and Deputy Commander British Forces for the entry operation into Kosovo. He was also awarded the Distinction de Legionnaire de Premier Classe Honoraire de la Legion Etrangeres (Honorary French Foreign Legionnaire, 1st Class) for the same operation.

Mr Nicholas E. Bobay,
Managing Director, ITT Defence Ltd

Nick Bobay is Managing Director ITT Defence Ltd in Basingstoke, UK, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of ITT Aerospace/Communications Division. Appointed to the position of MD in July 2006. His responsibilities include management and operations of the company’s international business segment, headquartered in the United Kingdom. The Basingstoke site produces wireless communication systems for U.K. and allied forces, as well as military/civil radar support and night vision equipment support.

After serving in the US Air Force Nick joined ITT in 1986. He has implemented lean and six-sigma principles at multiple sites within ITT Defense US, which enabled high rate production meeting customer expectations of delivery and quality. At ITT, Nick has held a series of increasingly responsible operations positions before being appointed Supply Chain Director in 2004. As Supply Chain Director, he developed a benchmark subcontract methodology which helped to enable the ramp of SINCGARS systems to the US Army to 6000 systems per month.

Nick earned a BS degree in Business Administration from Indiana Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration in 2001. Nick was presented the ITT Geneen Award in 2005 for his contributions to the SINCGARS program, and holds Value Based Six Sigma Black Belt, Master Black Belt and Lean Master certifications. He has also received the Gold Ring of Quality for lean implementations.

An Indiana native, Nick and wife Lori, reside in Virginia Water UK with their four children.

Dr Anthony Cordesman,
Arleigh A Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Expertise: Middle East military balance, weapons of mass destruction, national missile defense, critical infrastructure protection, homeland defense, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US and Middle East energy policy, Saudi Arabia.
Anthony Cordesman holds the Arleigh A Burke Chair in Strategy at CSIS. He is also a national security analyst for ABC News. His analysis has been featured prominently during the Gulf War, Desert Fox, the conflict in Kosovo, the fighting in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War.

During his time at CSIS, he has been director of the Gulf Net Assessment Project, the Gulf in Transition Study, and principal investigator of the CSIS Homeland Defense Project. He has led studies on national missile defense, asymmetric warfare and weapons of mass destruction, and critical infrastructure protection. He directed the CSIS Middle East Net Assessment Project and acted as codirector of the CSIS Strategic Energy Initiative. He is the author of a wide range of studies on US security policy, energy policy, and Middle East policy, which can be downloaded from the Strategic Energy Initiative, Homeland Defense, Military Balance, and Gulf in Transition sections of the CSIS Web site (www.csis.org).

Professor Cordesman has formerly served as national security assistant to Senator John McCain of the Senate Armed Services Committee, as director of intelligence assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and as civilian assistant to the deputy secretary of defense. He directed the analysis of the lessons of the October War for the secretary of defense in 1974, coordinating US military, intelligence, and civilian analysis of the conflict, and he has served in numerous other government positions, including in the State Department and on NATO International Staff. He also served as director of policy and planning for resource applications in the Department of Energy, and he has had numerous foreign assignments, including posts in Lebanon, Egypt, and Iran, and worked extensively in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.

Professor Cordesman is the author of more than 40 books, including a four-volume series on the lessons of modern war. His most recent books include: The Iraq War; Saudi Arabia Enters the 21st Century; The Lessons of Afghanistan; Terrorism, Asymmetric Warfare, and Weapons of Mass Destruction; Cyberthreats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection; Strategic Threats and National Missile Defenses; and The Lessons and Non-Lessons of the Air and Missile Campaign in Kosovo.

He has been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service medal, is a former adjunct professor of national security studies at Georgetown University, and has twice been a Wilson fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian.

General Sir Jack Deverell,
Former Commander NATO Armed Forces North and Adviser to NATO on integrating new Member Countries

General Deverell left the Army in March 2004. An Infantryman, he commanded at every level up to and including Brigade and has spent much of his career involved in operations and training. His final appointment was as Commander in Chief Allied Forces North. In this appointment he was responsible for establishing the first NATO Response Force, the accession and integration of new NATO nations and the training and subsequent operational direction of the NATO International Security and Advisory Force in Afghanistan. This and six months as Deputy Commander (Operations) SFOR in Bosnia has given gave him considerable experience of multi-national operations. He engages in defence and security consultancy through JFD Solutions Ltd of which he is the Chairman, typist and teaboy, and has acted as a senior mentor on behalf of UK MOD and NATO for exercises and studies.

General Deverell and his wife Jane live in Wiltshire. They have a married daughter who is a teacher and a son who is a serving officer in the Royal Horse Guards/Dragoons.

Mr Peter Felstead,
Editor, Jane's Defence Weekly

Jane's Defence Weekly Editor Peter Felstead has been with the company since February 1989.

After starting with the company's reference section, Peter soon joined JDW, where he worked as a sub editor and reporter for five years before moving on to the threat-analysis title Jane's Intelligence Review, which he edited for three years. Peter subsequently served as the company's first web content managing editor while also working as a JDW special correspondent, reporting from places such as Pristina and Baghdad.

Peter took up the JDW editorship in March 2004.

Brigadier General David Fraser,
Former Regional Commander South in Afghanistan, Canada

Brigadier-General Fraser is a native of Ottawa, Ontario. He was commissioned as an Infantry Officer upon graduation from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980.
Brigadier-General Fraser has served in various command and staff positions in the PPCLI from platoon to battalion commander in both 2PPCLI and 3PPCLI.

In 1990 he attended the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College in Toronto. Following Toronto, he attended French Language training in Ottawa.

In 1992 he was posted to Wainwright Alberta as the Second-in-Command and Chief Instructor of the Western Area Battle School. After two years with the School, he was assigned to work with the French Army as the Military Assistant to the French Major-General Commanding in Sarajevo in 1994/95. He was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his actions during the Bosnian Civil War.

Upon promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel, he was stationed in Calgary as Chief of Staff for Alberta District. In 1996 he assumed command of 2PPCLI and took the Battalion to Bosnia as the first Canadian Battle Group with SFOR. His tour with the Battalion included support to Quebec Ice Storm in 1998.

After command he moved to Ottawa and worked as Director Land Force Readiness 3, responsible for all Army planning and tasks. He played a major role in planning Canada's participation in Kosovo and Honduras. Brigadier-General Fraser was then assigned as the Project Director for Land Force Reserve Restructure. This Project was responsible for developing new Army Capabilities and assignment of tasks for the Army Reserve.

Brigadier-General Fraser completed his Master's in Defence Management and Policy from RMC and Queen's and was promoted to his current rank in 2001.

In 2003 Brigadier-General Fraser was posted to the Bi-National Planning Group in Colorado Springs, Colorado where he served as the Co-Director until 2005. He was awarded the United States Legion of Merit for his work.

On 29 June 2005, Brigadier-General Fraser assumed command of 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group and was promoted to his current rank shortly thereafter. Brigadier-General Fraser officially assumed command of the Multi National Brigade (Regional Command South) in Afghanistan on 28 February 2006 until November 2006. For his leadership he was awarded the United States Bronze Star, the Netherlands Medal of Merit in gold and the Canadian Military Service Cross.

Brigadier-General Fraser is married to Poppie Veenstra, a gifted artist, and they have two boys Andrew and Daniel.

Mr John Greenhalgh,
Head of Business Development, ITT Defence Ltd

John Greenhalgh was commissioned into the British Army and served with the Royal Corps of Transport and then the Brigade of Gurkhas in Brunei and Hong Kong. Following flying training in 1979, he served with the Army Air Corps in numerous UK and overseas appointments taking part in OPERATION CORPORATE during the recapture of the Falkland Islands for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1995 he assumed command of 3 Regiment Army Air Corps at Wattisham in Suffolk, deploying the Regiment to Croatia, with 24 Airmobile Brigade, as part of OPERATION HAMDEN.

After various tours in the USA and UK he was appointed Colonel Force Development for Army Aviation with specific responsibilities for Apache Longbow and Electronic Warfare, retiring from the Army in 2004. On joining ITT (who manufacture and support all the VHF and UHF radios for the UK BOWMAN Programme) John has been responsible for creating and leading the Company’s ever expanding UK International Business Development Team.

His interests include motor sport, skiing, running and travel.

Professor Gunnar Heinsohn,
Director, Raphael-Lemkin-Institute, University of Bremen

GUNNAR HEINSOHN was born in November 1943 (Gotenhafen=Gdynia/Poland) as the posthumous son of a German submarine commander whose U-Boat (U 438) was sunk off Newfoundland in May 1943 by the British frigate Pelican. He majored in sociology, history, psychology, economics, and religious studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He gained a university diploma in sociology (1971) as well as doctorates (both summa cum laude) in the social sciences (1973) and in economics (1982). His publication list exceeds more than 700 titles including 37 books. Since 1984 he has been a tenured professor at Universität Bremen where, in 1993, he founded Europe’s first institute devoted to comparative genocide research (Raphael-Lemkin-Institut für Xenophobie und Genozidforschung). His research focuses on the history and theory of civilization with special emphasis on (i) population, (ii) economy, (iii) religion, (iv) mega killings, and (v) chronology. His monograph Sons and World Power: Terror in the Rise and Fall of Nations – published in German in 2003 (a scholastic bestseller with 8th impression in December 2006) – explores the relation between superfluous but adequately brought up sons and violent movements throughout history.

Lieutenant General David Hurley,
Chief of the Capability Development Executive, Australian DoD

Lieutenant General David Hurley was born in Wollongong, NSW in 1953. He graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in December 1975 into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps. His initial posting was to the 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR). As a Captain he served as Adjutant, Sydney University Regiment, Regimental Adjutant, The Royal Australian Regiment and as the exchange officer with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards (British Army).

Upon his return to Australia Lieutenant General Hurley served with the 5th/7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (5/7 RAR) prior to attending Command and Staff College, Queenscliff in 1986. Following Command and Staff College he was posted as the SO2 (Non-Corps Postings) in the Office of the Military Secretary (MS). In 1989 he served a posting as the Mechanised Infantry Adviser, Australian Army Project Team Malaysia.

Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1990 he was posted as the Senior Career Adviser (Armour, Artillery, Engineers and Infantry) in MS. A posting as SO1 (Operations) Headquarters 2nd Division followed in 1991. In November 1991 he assumed command of 1 RAR which he led during Operation SOLACE ( Somalia) in 1993. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for this service.

Following his command appointment, Lieutenant General Hurley was posted as SO1 (Operations), Headquarters 1st Division in January 1994. In June 1994 he was promoted to Colonel and posted as Chief of Staff, Headquarters 1st Division. In 1996/97 Lieutenant General Hurley attended the United States Army War College, returning to a posting as Military Secretary to the Chief of Army. In December 1997 he was posted to the Australian Defence Headquarters as the Director of Preparedness and Mobilisation.

In January 1999 he was promoted to Brigadier and assumed command of the 1st Brigade in Darwin. During this period he oversaw the Brigade's transition to a higher degree of operational readiness and its support to Australian led operations in East Timor.

In January 2001 he was posted as the Director General Land Development within Capability Systems in the Office of the Vice Chief of the Defence Force. In July 2001 he was promoted to Major General and appointed Head, Capability Systems.

In December 2002 was appointed Land Commander Australia. In December 2003 he was promoted to Lieutenant General to assume the new appointment of Chief of Capability Development Group.

Lieutenant General Hurley holds the academic qualifications of Bachelor of Arts and Graduate Diploma in Defence Studies. He is married to Linda and has three children.

Mr Marc Lee,
Chairman, Cityforum Ltd and Adviser to Jane's Information Group

After reading Modern History at Oxford, lectured in International Politics at Southampton University when he wrote one book on the UN and edited another. While at Southampton worked principally with the military. Joined the Financial Times in 1971 and worked there for over 20 years as Conference Director, Joint Managing Director of FT Business Enterprises and Conference Adviser. Developed for the newspaper its global conference business and took a special interest in Central Banking, Gold and in the Aerospace, Defence and Automotive industries.

Marc set up Cityforum initially to work on central banking, financial regulatory and multilateral banking issues. At the time of the Robertson SDR the focus of Cityforum moved to defence and in recent years it has developed work in homeland security. He devises conferences for Jane’s, and Cityforum has recently started a joint venture with Jane’s featuring events in Washington, London and Continental Europe of which this Defence in 2020 and Beyondis one. He advises several public and private sector organisations.

Marc Lee is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and serves as Treasurer Wales and West for that organisation.

Lieutenant General James N. Mattis
Commander, United States Marine Forces Central Command

Lieutenant General James N. Mattis is currently serving as the Commander,
U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command and Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force.

As a Lieutenant, he served as a rifle and weapons platoon Commander in the 3d Marine Division. As a Captain, he commanded a rifle company and a weapons company in the 1st Marine Brigade. As a Major, he commanded Recruiting Station Portland. As a Lieutenant Colonel, he commanded 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, one of Task Force Ripper's assault battalions in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. As a Colonel, he commanded 7th Marines (Reinforced). As a Brigadier General, he commanded 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade and then Task Force 58, during Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan. As a Major General, he commanded 1st Marine Division during the initial attack and subsequent stability operations in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. As a Lieutenant General, he commanded the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and served as the Deputy Commandant for Combat Development.

He is a graduate of the Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the National War College.

Lieutenant General Sir David Richards,
Commander, Allied Rapid Reaction Corps

Born in 1952 and educated at Eastbourne College, David Richards was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1971 prior to attending University College Cardiff to study politics and economics. Graduating in 1974 he spent the next 9 years at regimental duty in the Far East, Germany and the UK and on the staff of 11th Armoured Brigade in Germany. This period included 3 operational tours in Northern Ireland. After attending the Staff College Camberley in 1984, he returned to 11th Armoured Brigade to command a field battery in 47th Field Regiment. From there he spent 2 years in Berlin as the Chief of Staff of the Berlin Infantry Brigade. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, he spent the next 3 years as an instructor at the Staff College, before being appointed to command 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery. This period included another operational tour in Northern Ireland. In 1994 he was promoted and appointed Colonel Army Plans in the MOD, responsible for the shape and size of the Army. After 2 years he escaped the MOD via the Higher Command and Staff course to become Commander 4th Armoured Brigade in Germany. In 1998 he was posted to the Permanent Joint Headquarters as Chief Joint Force Operations, the UK's default one star commander for short notice expeditionary operations. In this role he was involved in a number of operations, including commanding the UK Contingent in East Timor in 1999, and twice commanding a UK Joint Task Force in Sierra Leone in 2000. Promoted to Major General, he assumed the appointment of Chief of Staff of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in April 2001. During this tour, HQ ARRC achieved full operating capability as NATO's first High Readiness Force (Land). He was appointed Assistant Chief of the General Staff in September 2002 and assumed the appointment of COMARRC on 19th January 05. In this role he deployed with the Headquarters as Commander ISAF IX and in October 2006 he was promoted to General. He has attended the US Brigade Commanders, Combined Joint Force Land Component Commanders and Joint Task Force Commanders (Pinnacle) Courses. His operational awards include a Mention in Despatches, Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order.

General Richards is married to Caroline and has 2 daughters (Joanna and Pippa). He is a keen student of military history, a qualified offshore yachtsman - he is Admiral of the British Kiel Yacht Club - a Governor of his old School, the Colonel Commandant Brigade of Gurkhas, Honorary Colonel 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, an occasional horseman and an unskilled but hard working gardener.

Captain Peter Swartz
Senior Analyst, The Center for Naval Analyses, USA

Peter M. Swartz is a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) of the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA -- a civilian Federally-Funded Research & Development Center conducting studies and analyses for the US Navy and other organizations). He has been an analyst and manager at CNA since 1993, serving as a Research Team director and directing or contributing significantly to studies for the Navy on maritime strategy; NATO relationships; riverine operations; counter-piracy operations; force protection; strategic concept development; deployment strategy; homeland defense; combatant command component relationships; multinational doctrine; and operations other than war. He also directed a study on US Coast Guard international operations.
He currently specializes in applying naval strategic and operational history to enhance the situational awareness of decision-makers regarding current and future problems. He also serves as an advisor to the US Navy flag officer directing the Strategy and Policy Division (N5SP) of the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Before joining CNA, he was a career officer in the US Navy, retiring as a captain. While in the Navy, he served in senior military and diplomatic staff positions in the United States and overseas. He was Special Assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell during the first Gulf War, and Director of Defense Operations at the US Mission to NATO in Brussels during the Warsaw Pact collapse. Throughout the early and mid-1980s he was a principal author of and spokesman for the Reagan Administration’s “Maritime Strategy”, serving for part of that time on the staff of Secretary of the Navy John Lehman. Assignments during the 1970s included helping direct Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt’s Navy human resource management programs in Washington and later in London. During the late 1960s he served two tours as an advisor with the Vietnamese Navy in the western Mekong Delta and in Saigon, and was an instructor and course director in the Navy’s counter-insurgency training programs.

He holds a BA with honors in International Relations from Brown University, an MA in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and an MPhil in Political Science from Columbia University. He has taught graduate-level courses and classes at George Washington and Cornell Universities; authored numerous journal articles and book chapters; and lectured at military and civilian colleges and universities in the United States and in Europe.

Vice Admiral Gérard Valin,
DCOS (Plans & Capabilities), French Navy

Vice-Admiral Gérard VALIN was born in 1953 in Lunéville (Meurthe-et-Moselle). He joined the French naval Academy in 1974, and spent one year on board the Patrol Craft “La Malouine” in Djibouti after his graduation. Specialising in naval aviation as a pilot in 1978, he qualified as a carrier-borne fighter pilot on F8E Crusader. After embarking as an instructor on board the Naval Officer’s Training Ship “Jeanne d’Arc”, he joined the Maritime Patrol community in 1984 and specialised on Atlantic Maritime Patrol Aircraft. He was twice engaged in operations in Chad (Epervier) in 1986 and 1989.

He attended the Naval Staff College and the Advanced Joint Services Course in Paris, prior to a tour in the Personal Department of the Maritime Patrol Command Staff.

oted to Commander in 1991, he took command of the 24F Squadron in NAS Lann Bihoué from 1991 to 1993, achieving the transformation of his squadron on the then new ATLANTIQUE MPA. His operational naval aviator time ended as head of the Operations department in NAS Lann Bihoué in 1994, with more than 3500 flying hours.

He returned to sea as Executive Officer of the ASW Frigate “Georges Leygues”, and took part in the “Sharp Guard” operation in the Adriatic in 1996.

In 1996-7, he was commanding officer of the frigate “Vendémiaire” in the Pacific Ocean, permanently deployed in Tahiti (French Polynesia), then in Nouméa (New Caledonia).

Promoted to Captain in October 1997, he went directly back from sea to the Naval Staff in Paris in the Plans & Policy department for three years, contributing to improvement of maritime concepts, to adapt French navy format to the strategic changes and to build the rising ESDP capabilities.

He attended the 50th Session of the Center for Advanced Military Studies (CHEM) and the Institute of National Defence Advanced Studies (IHEDN). This course was followed by two years in the MoD Central Staff in the General Military Strategy department, in charge of defence policy and military strategy after the11th September 2001. He was also involved in manpower long term strategic guidance to take into account the end of conscription in France before dealing again with aviation issues as the Deputy Inspector Naval Aviation in 2003-04.

He was promoted to Rear Admiral in June 2004, and appointed as the Secretary General of the Joint Capability Board Permanent Secretariat he had been in charge to create.

Since September 2006, he has been assuming his current appointment as Deputy Chief of Staff (Plans, Policy & Capabilities) in the Naval Staff and was promoted toVice Admiral in January 2007.

Vice Admiral VALIN lives in Paris with his wife Odile and their 5 children. His main centres of interest are geopolitics, painting, sailing and tennis.

His personal decorations include the Legion of Honour (Officer) and the National Order of Merit (Commander).