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Counterinsurgency: America’s Strategic Burden
November 20, 2009 @ 4:15 am - 12:00 pm
Featuring
- Lt. Col. John Nagl (Ret.), president, Center for a New American Security
- David Kilcullen, The Crumpton Group
- Janine Davidson, U.S. Department of Defense
- Roger Cressey, Good Harbor Consulting, former NSC Staff Member
- Michael Sheehan, Torch Hill Partners, former Deputy for Counterterrorism, NYPD
- Peter Bergen, CNN Terrorism Analyst, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know
- Steven Simon, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Christine Fair, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
- Montgomery McFate, Senior Social Scientist, US Army Human Terrain System
- Steve Fondacero, Program Manager, US Army Human Terrain System
- Nir Rosen, journalist
- Col. Pat Lang, Retired Army, former Defense Intelligence Agency
- Dr. Conrad Crane, Director, US Army Military History Institute
- Thomas Johnson Director, Program for Culture & Conflict Studies, Naval Postgraduate School
- Adam Silverman, Social Science Advisor for Strategic Communications, US Army’s Human Terrain System
- Col. Martin Stanton, US Army
- Joanna Nathan, currently undertaking a mid-career masters at Princeton University. Senior analyst for the International Crisis Group in Kabul from 2005-2009
- Ken Silverstein, journalist, Harper’s Magazine
- Stephen Holmes, Meyer Professor of Law, NYU Law
- Karen Greenberg, Executive Director, Center on Law and Security, NYU Law
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-10:00 a.m. Keynote Speech
10:00-11:30 a.m. Counterinsurgency Today: Theory vs. Reality
11:30-1:00 p.m. Lessons from the Past: Counterinsurgency in History
1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m. Assessing Afghanistan
3:30-5:00 p.m. What Lies Ahead
Links to view video of the conference are here: (REAL PLAYER UPDATE REQUIRED)
http://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Welcome.rv
http://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Theory_Reality.rv
http://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Lessons.rv
http://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyut /20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Assessing_Afghanistan.rv
http://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_What_Lies_Ahead.rv