CNAS Annual Conference Videos
10 June – Washington, DC
1) Introduction and Opening Remarks – Dr. Richard Danzig (CNAS Board of Directors) and Dr. Leo MacKay (CNAS Board of Directors).
2) Panel Number 1: Future of the Force — Thomas Ricks (CNAS Senior Fellow / Panel Chair), Admiral Eric Olson (Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command), Dr. John Nagl (CNAS President), Dr. Peter Singer (Brookings Institution), and Jim Thomas (Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments).
3) Panel Number 2: Beyond Afghanistan: America’s Enduring Interests in Central and South Asia — Lieutenant General David Barno (CNAS Senior Advisor / Panel Chair), Ambassador Ryan Crocker (Texas A&M University), Richard Fontaine (CNAS Senior Fellow), Dr. Paul Pillar (Georgetown University), and Dr. Ashley Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace).
4) Keynote Address — Honorable Michí¨le Flournoy (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, U.S. Department of Defense).
5) Panel Number 3: Strategy in the Age of Obama: Engagement and its Limits — Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns (Harvard University / Panel Chair), Elliott Abrams (Council on Foreign Relations), Dr. Patrick Cronin (CNAS Senior Advisor), Dr. Kristin Lord (CNAS VP), David Sanger (New York Times), and Dr. Anne-Marie Slaughter (Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State)
6) Closing Remarks — Nathaniel Fick (CNAS CEO).