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| Staff: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy |
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October 2006 - Present
Meetings
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: Technology in Counterinsurgency-Defeating IEDs
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Lieutenant General Thomas F. Metz, Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: Difficult Transitions-Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Kurt M. Campbell, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Center for New American Security |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: New Faces of Battle - Private Contractors, Child Warriors, and Robot Soldiers
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Peter W. Singer, Director, 21st Century Initiative, The Brookings Institution |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: A New Phase in Iraq?
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Kay King, Vice President, Washington Program, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: Do We Exaggerate the Threats of Terrorism and Proliferation?
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | John Mueller, Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Ohio State University |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: Air and Land Power After Iraq
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Charles J. Dunlap, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Headquarters U.S. Air Force |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: Managing the Consequences of Failure in Iraq
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Daniel L. Byman, Security Studies Program, Georgetown University |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: Finding the Target - The Transformation of American Military Policy
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Speakers: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Frederick W. Kagan, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: Civil-Military Relations in the Post-Rumsfeld Era
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Richard H. Kohn, Professor and Chair, Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: The New Way Forward in Iraq
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Presider: | Nancy E. Roman, Vice President and Director, Washington Program, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Stephen J. Hadley, The White House |
Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy: U.S. Grand Strategy and the Long War
Related Project: Roundtable on U.S. Defense Policy and Strategy
| Speaker: | Peter Douglas Feaver, National Security Council |
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| Presider: | Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign Relations |
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