John J. McCloy Roundtable Series on Setting the National Security Agenda
Director: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies
December 1, 1996 - Present
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
The Defense Budget in Decline: How to Do Almost as Much with Not Too Much Less, or What to Stop Doing if It's a Lot Less
Speakers: Gordan Adams, The Stimson Center
Nora J. Bensahel, Center for a New American Security
Lawrence J. Korb, Center for American Progress
Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Brookings Institution
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
December 1, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
Moving Beyond the War on Terror
Speakers: Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations
Robert A. Pape, University of Chicago
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
May 26, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. Political-Military Priorities: An Insider's View
Speaker: Andrew Shapiro, U.S. Department of State
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
February 22, 2011
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Prospects in Afghanistan and American Strategic Choices
Speakers: Stephen Biddle, Council on Foreign Relations
Austin Long, Columbia University
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
December 9, 2010
Roundtable Meeting
Myths of Nuclear Stability: What Presidents Don't Know About the Limits of their Control of Nuclear Forces
Speaker: Bruce Blair, World Security Institute
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
May 4, 2010
Roundtable Meeting
The Obama Nuclear Agenda: A Report on the Department of Defense Nuclear Posture Review
Speaker: Michael Nacht, U.S. Department of Defense
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
April 14, 2010
Roundtable Meeting
The Future of U.S. Strategic Relationship with Iraq
Speaker: Colin H. Kahl, U.S. Department of Defense
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, CFR
November 24, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Myths of Nuclear Stability
Speaker: Bruce Blair, World Security Institute
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
November 3, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
North Korea and the Future of the Six Party Talks
Speaker: Victor D. Cha, Georgetown School of Foreign Service
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
May 21, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
Iraq: Revisiting Three Crucial Decisions of the Past Six Years
Speaker: Meghan L. O'Sullivan, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
March 13, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Speaker: Peter W. Singer, Brookings Institution
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
February 5, 2009
Roundtable Meeting
The Future of Special Operations
Speaker: David Kilcullen, U.S. Department of State
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
December 17, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Inside Georgian Politics
Speaker: Lincoln A. Mitchell, Assistant Professor, Practice of International Politics, Columbia University
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
September 9, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Sprinting to the Finish
Speaker: Kori Schake, Principal Deputy Director of Policy Planning, U.S. Department of State
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
May 6, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Counterterrorism Under the Next President: Lessons from New York City
Speaker: Richard A. Falkenrath, Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism, New York City Police Department
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
April 22, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Statecraft in the Middle East
Speaker: Dennis B. Ross, Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
February 4, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Trends in the U.S.-China Security Relationship
Speaker: Thomas Christensen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
December 7, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Planning for Future Military Conflicts
Speaker: Thomas G. Mahnken, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Planning, U.S. Department of Defense
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
October 16, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
The Next Attack in the Homeland: How to Respond
Speaker: Henry A. Crumpton, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Counterterrorism Office, U.S. Department of State
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
October 5, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
An Assessment Intelligence Reform
Speakers: Mark Lowenthal, President, The Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC
William E. Odom, Adjunct Professor, Yale University
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations
May 25, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Speaker: John J. Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
February 8, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. Intelligence and 9/11
Speaker: Amy Zegart, University of California Los Angeles
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
January 25, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
New Nuclear Interactions
Speaker: Stephen Peter Rosen, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
November 2, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
What Kind of Military Transformation?
Speaker: Frederick W. Kagan, American Enterprise Institute
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
October 24, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
Intelligence Reform: A View from the Eye of the Storm
Speaker: Deborah Barger, Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
April 10, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
Transformational Diplomacy
Speaker: John Hillen, U.S. Dept. of State
Presider: Richard K. Betts
February 24, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
The Challenge of American Primacy
Speakers: William C. Wohlforth, Dartmouth College
Stephen Brooks, Dartmouth College
Presider: Richard K. Betts
February 9, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
The Integrated Power Concept and Its Implications in Iraq
Speakers: Larry Korb, Center for American Progress
Robert Boorstin, Center for American Progress
Presider: Richard K. Betts
January 17, 2006
Roundtable Meeting
Intelligence and Policy: A Broken Relationship
Speaker: Paul Pillar, Georgetown University
Presider: Richard K. Betts
November 8, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. First Strike Capability
Speakers: Keir Lieber, Notre Dame University
Daryl G. Press, University of Pennsylvania
Presider: Richard K. Betts
October 25, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Dying to Win
Speaker: Robert A. Pape, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
June 6, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
Speaker: Andrew Bacevich, Director of the Center for International Relations,, Boston University
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
April 15, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Iraq: Can We Eat Soup with a Knife?
Speaker: John A. Nagl, U.S. Department of Defense
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
March 17, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
They Still Don't Get It: The Danger of Ignoring Reality in the War on Terrorism
Speaker: Michael Scheuer
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
February 23, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Lying in International Politics
Speaker: Eric Alterman, Professor, Brooklyn College, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
December 2, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
The Road to-and-from 9/11
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Philip D. Zelikow, Executive Director, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
November 23, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
The Case Against American Empire
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow, Independent Institute
October 8, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
The Evolving Security Roles of American Forces in Iraq
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Gary Anderson, Science Applications International Corporation
Francis "Bing" West, GAMA Corporation
May 17, 2004
Contact Victoria Thompson at (212) 434-9668 or vthompson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable on the Navy's Evolving Role in War on Terror
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Albert Konetzni Jr.
March 17, 2004
Contact Victoria Thompson at (212) 434-9668 or vthompson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
John J. McCloy Roundtable with General James T. Hill
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: James T. Hill
February 24, 2004
Contact Victoria Thompson at (212) 434-9668 or vthompson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
John J. McCloy Roundtable with Lt. General William Odom
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: William E. Odom, Hudson Institute
February 12, 2004
Contact Victoria Thompson at (212) 434-9668 or vthompson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Terrorism After Al Qa'ida
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Paul Pillar, National Intelligence Council
November 4, 2003
Contact Victoria Thompson at 212-434-9668 or vthompson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
New Bases and Allies for Old? The Pentagon’s Plans for Future Global Military Posture
Presider: Richard K. Betts
October 7, 2003
Contact Victoria Thompson at 212-434-9668 or vthompson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Preventing Intelligence Failures in Counterterrorism
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Eleanor Hill, Joint 9/11 Investigation Committee
June 27, 2003
Contact Scott Kemp at 212-434-9749 or skemp@cfr.org
Contact Scott Kemp at 212-434-9749 or skemp@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
National Security Agenda
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Jesse H. Ausubel, Rockefeller University
October 3, 2002
Contact: Scott Kemp at 212-434-9594 or skemp@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Lessons Learned from the War in Afghanistan
Presider: Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: Stephen Biddle, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
September 24, 2002
Contact Scott Kemp at 212-434-9749 or skemp@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
What have we learned about terrorism since September 11?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University
May 15, 2002
Contact: Nora Kahn 212-434-9610 or nkahn@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
America's Response to Terrorism: US Air Defense
Speaker: William P. Delaney, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 16, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
America's Response to Terrorism: U. S. Air Defense
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Lee Upton, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
William P. Delaney, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
November 16, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
America's Response to Terrorism: What Difference Does the RMA Make After September 11?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Michael E. O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations
Lawrence J. Korb, Vice President, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, and Director of Studies
October 24, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
America's Response to Terrorism: US-China Security Relations after the September 11 Attacks
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Kurt M. Campbell, CSIS
October 23, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
America's Response to Terrorism: What Difference Does the RMA Make After September 11?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Andrew Krepinevich, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment
Michael E. O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution
October 12, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
The U.S. Navy: A Vision for the 21st Century
Panelist: Lawrence J. Korb
Speaker: Robert J. Natter, Admiral, U.S.N., Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet
May 23, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
Can the New Administration Preserve the U.S. Military Profession or Will the Military Be Just a Bureaucracy?
Panelist: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Don M. Snider, U.S. Military Academy
May 8, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
The Space Commission: Recommendations and Projects
Panelist: Richard K. Betts, Adjunct Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Speaker: David E. Jeremiah, Admiral USN (Ret.); President, Technology Strategies & Alliances Corporation; Commissioner, Commission to Access United States National Security Space Management and Organization
April 26, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
Transparency in an Environment of Unilateral Arms
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Rose E. Gottemoeller, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment; former Deputy Undersecretary for Nuclear Proliferation, U.S. Department of Energy
March 22, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
Critical Issues in Defense Management
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Ashton B. Carter, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author, Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future
February 15, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
NATO Leaving the Balkans: A Retreat?
Panelist: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Sir Rupert Smith, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
January 26, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
Critical Issues in Managing Defense Policy
Panelist: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Ashton B. Carter, Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs, Harvard's Kennedy School of Public Policy
January 11, 2001
Roundtable Meeting
The Next Quadrennial Defense Review: Can It Get Out of the Box? Should It?
Speakers: Ted Warner, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction
Andrew R. Hoehn, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Strategy
November 14, 2000
Roundtable Meeting
The National Commission on Terrorism: Recommendations and Prospects
Speaker: L. Paul Bremer, Managing Director, MMC Enterprise Risk
October 26, 2000
Roundtable Meeting
How India's Nuclear Force Should Develop: Deterrence Concepts, Force Structure and Command and Control
Presider: Richard K. Betts
October 17, 2000
Roundtable Meeting
Transnational Crime Networks
Panelist: Richard K. Betts, CFR
Speaker: Phil Williams, Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
April 10, 2000
Contact: Robert Thomson 212-434-9655 or rthomson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
The Kashmir Problem after the Indian Election
October 18, 1999
Roundtable Meeting
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, or Doesn't Matter?
Presider: Lawrence J. Korb
Speakers: Richard Chilcoat, National Defense University
Elizabeth Kier, Harvard University
May 19, 1999
Roundtable Meeting
The War over Kosovo: What to Do? To What End?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Albert I. Edelman, Mayer, Brown and Platt
Ivo H. Daalder, Brookings Institution
April 27, 1999
Roundtable Meeting
The Future of Russian Military Power
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: William E. Odom, Hudson Institute
April 27, 1999
Roundtable Meeting
Can Saddam Hussein Be Toppled? (N.Y.)
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Frank Smyth, Journalist
Gideon Rose
March 4, 1999
Roundtable Meeting
Can Saddam Hussein Be Toppled? (D.C.)
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Frank Smyth, Journalist
Kenneth M. Pollack, National Defense University
February 26, 1999
Roundtable Meeting
The Russian Military: From Ten Feet Tall to Two Feet Small
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: William E. Odom, Hudson Institute
November 24, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Non-Lethal Weapons.
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Charles Swett, Center for Strategic and International Studies
November 6, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Non-lethal Weapons
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Charles Swett, Center for Strategic and International Studies
October 27, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
The Civilian-Military Gap: Problem or Solution?.
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: John Hillen, Council on Foreign Relations
October 2, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
The Civilian-Military Gap: Problem or Solution?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: John Hillen, Council on Foreign Relations
October 1, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Security Commerce and Space: Protecting the New SLOCs
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Frank G. Klotz, Council on Foreign Relations
May 11, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Dueling Instabilities: What's Going On in Korea?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Mitchell B. Reiss, Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO)
Frederick Carrier, Korea Society
April 22, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
How Much Can UNSCOM Do Even if Saddam Lets It?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: David Kay, Former UNSCOM Inspector
April 6, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Is the New North Atlantic Treaty Organization Militarily Serious?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Ronald D. Asmus, U.S. Department of State
March 5, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Bosnia: Is Partition the Lesser Evil?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Warren Zimmermann, Columbia University
Chaim Kaufmann, Lehigh University
March 4, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Refugees as a Security Issue
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Robert P. DeVecchi, Council on Foreign Relations
February 4, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Is the New NATO Militarily Serious?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Don M. Snider, U.S. Military Academy
January 12, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Bosnia: Is Partition the Lesser Evil?.
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Ivo H. Daalder, University of Maryland
Susan L. Woodward, The Brookings Institution
Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Brookings Institution
January 7, 1998
Roundtable Meeting
Energy Security: Is Access Still a Problem?.
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Michael C. Lynch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Douglas B. McNary, Council on Foreign Relations
October 30, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Energy Security: Is Access Still a Problem?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Michael C. Lynch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Douglas B. McNary, Council on Foreign Relations
October 22, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
How Should We Think about the Future of Chinese Power?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
September 25, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
How Should We Think about the Future of Chinese Power?.
Presider: Richard K. Betts
September 17, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Information Warfare
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Martin Libicki, Institute for National Strategic Studies
May 6, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Information Warfare (DC)
Presider: Richard K. Betts
May 1, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Biological Weapons: The Worst of WMD?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University
April 8, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Biological Weapons: The Worst of WMD? (DC)
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Richard Danzig, U.S. Department of Defense
April 1, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Economic Security and National Security
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: David B. H. Denoon, New York University
Albert Fishlow, Council on Foreign Relations
March 24, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. Military Strategy in Asia: Is There Any beyond Korea and Japan? Should There Be?
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Aaron L. Friedberg, Princeton University
February 11, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
U.S. Military Strategy in Asia: Is There Any beyond Korea and Japan? Should There Be? (DC)
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Kurt M. Campbell, U.S. Department of Defense
February 4, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Political Intervention to Affect Foreign Regimes (DC)
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speaker: Donald Gregg, The Korea Society
January 16, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Political Intervention to Affect Foreign Regimes
Presider: Richard K. Betts
Speakers: Joshua Muravchik, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Richard K. Betts, Council on Foreign Relations
January 14, 1997
Roundtable Meeting
Strategic Defenses: Getting Beyond Cold War Conceptions (DC)
Presider: Richard K. Betts
December 3, 1996
Roundtable Meeting
Strategic Defenses: Getting Beyond Cold War Conceptions
Presider: Richard K. Betts
December 2, 1996
