Counterinsurgency: America’s Strategic Burden

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