Conference Agenda

Day 1 - Tuesday, April 9, 2013
9:00AM-8:00PM   Registration
9:00AM - 5:30PM: Building 47
6:30 - 8PM: Quarters 1 or Letort View Community Center (LVCC)
11:00AM & 1:00PM   U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center Tours

3:00PM-5:00PM   U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center History Panel - "Many Dangers, Little Money: Strategic Choices During the Interwar Years"
Panelists - Dr. Conrad Crane, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center; Dr. Robert Citino, University of North Texas
6:30PM-9:00PM   Commandant-Hosted 'Ice Breaker' Reception
Day 2 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013
7:00AM-8:30AM   Check-in and Refreshments

Location - Bliss Hall Foyer
8:30AM-10:00AM   Keynote Address
Professor John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium
10:15AM-11:45PM   Panel I - A Moderated Debate: Is American Foreign Policy Overly Militarized?
Moderator: Tom Bowman, NPR Pentagon Correspondent
Debaters: Dr. Dan Drezner, Tufts & Dr. Kalev Sepp, NPS

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium
12:00PM-1:15PM   Luncheon Speaker - Recoiling from Long Wars, or How We Re-Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs
Dr. Conrad Crane, U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center

Location - Letort View Community Center (LVCC)
1:30PM-3:00PM   Panel II - Great Power Rivalry: How To Address Rising Non-Hostile Rivals
Chair: Dr. Andrew Scobell, RAND
Panelists: Dr. Zhu Feng,Beijing University; BG (R) Gurmeet Kanwal, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses; Dr. Stephen Blank, SSI, U.S. Army War College

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium
3:15PM-4:45PM   Panel III: Political and Socio-Economic Change: Revolutions and Their Implications (Dr. Terrill/Deni)
Chair: Dr. Paul Kan, U.S. Army War College
Panelists: Dr. William Zartman, Johns Hopkins; Dr. Phil Brenner, American University

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium
6:00PM-7:00PM   Pre-Banquet Social Hour

Location - Letort View Community Center (LVCC)
7:00PM-9:00PM   Banquet and Banquet Keynote - American Defense Budget and the Future of U.S. Landpower
Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Location - Letort View Community Center (LVCC)
Day 3 - Thursday, April 11, 2013
7:00AM-8:30AM   Morning Refreshments and Check-In Open

Location - Bliss Hall Foyer
8:30AM-10:00AM   Panel IV - State Sponsored Crime and Non-State Actors: Gangs, Guns, and Graft
Chair: Dr. Stephen Blank, SSI, U.S. Army War College
Panelists: Edward Lucas, The Economist; Karen Saunders, Forum Foundation for Analytic Excellence; Douglas Farah, International Assessment and Strategy Center

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium
10:15AM-11:45AM   Panel V - Augmenting Our Influence: Alliance Revitalization and Partner Development (Dr. Deni
Chair: Dr. John Deni, SSI, U.S. Army War College
Panelists: Dr. William Tow, Australian National University; Dr. Sean Kay, Ohio Wesleyan University; Dr. Carol Atkinson, Vanderbilt University

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium
11:45AM-1:30PM   Luncheon Speaker
TBD

Location - Letort View Community Center (LVCC)
1:45PM-3:15PM   On-State Newsmaker Interview by Margaret Warner of the PBS Newshour, with Q&A

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium
3:15PM-3:30PM   Concluding Remarks and Way Ahead
MG Anthony Cucolo, Commandant, U.S. Army War College

Location - Bliss Hall Auditorium