RUSI Land Warfare 2014 Conference Programme
Agenda
Day 1
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Registration
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Session One: Keynote Address
Chair: Professor Michael Clarke, Director-General, Royal United Services Institute
General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff
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Session Two: Change, Continuity and Relevance
What History Tells us of the British Way of War - Reflections on military learning and transformation, from the First World War to Afghanistan.
Chair: The Rt Hon Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice Principal, King’s College London
Speakers:
Professor Sir Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford
Harlan Ullman, Senior Adviser, Atlantic Council
Professor Theo Farrell, Head of War Studies, King’s College London
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Tea and Coffee
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Session Three: The Future Landscape and Challenges
Approaches to horizon scanning and planning for future operating environments in the military, cross-government and private sector.
Chair: Peter Roberts, Senior Research Fellow in Sea Power and Maritime Studies, RUSI
Speakers:
Simon Thacker, Head of Strategic Early Warning, Cabinet Office
Richard Fenning, Chief Executive Officer, Control Risks
Lieutenant General Chen Yong, Assistant Chief of General Staff, People’s Liberation Army
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Lunch
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Session Four: Preparing for War?
Consideration of the Army’s primary, war-fighting, purpose – challenges to force development, balancing of competing priorities and managing operational and political risk.
Chair: The Rt Hon James Arbuthnot MP
Speakers:
Julian Miller, Deputy National Security Adviser
Lieutenant General Bruno Kasdorf, Chief of Staff, German Army Lieutenant
General James Barclay III, Deputy Chief of Staff, US Army
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Tea and Coffee
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Session Five: Working with Partners to Generate Fighting Power
Achievement of ‘critical mass’ through alliances and partnerships, contractor support to contingency operations and the deployment of sponsored reserves.
Chair: Major General (Retd) Ian Copeland
Speakers:
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, Commanding General, NATO LANDCOM
Major General Per Ludvigsen, Commander Army Operational Command, Royal Danish Army
Major General Riho Terras, Commander Estonian Defence Forces
Richard McEvoy, Program Manager - Afghan National Police/MOI, DynCorp International
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Drinks Reception: Launch of the British Army Journal
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Speakers Dinner – by invitation
Day 2
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Registration
Chief of the General Staff’s Breakfast Forum: Junior Officers and RUSI ‘Under 35’ members – by invitation
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Session Six: Keynote Address
Chair: Professor Michael Clarke, Director-General, Royal United Services Institute
The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Defence
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Session Seven: Next Generation Land Capabilities
Addressing the capability challenge, from the conceptual to current force, across Defence and industry, honouring the Land Equipment Programme.
Chair: Lieutenant General Christopher Deverell, Chief of Materiel (Land)
Speakers:
Lieutenant General Mark Poffley, Commander Force Development and Capability
Lieutenant General Michael Williamson, Acquisition Logistics & Technology, US Army
Simon Fovargue, Vice President HP Defence
Claes-Peter Cederlof, Vice President Land Western Europe, Saab
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Tea and Coffee
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Session Eight: Realising a Post-campaign Approach
Ensuring resilience, flexibility and capability in a post-campaign British Army that stands ready to deliver whenever it is called upon.
Chair: Professor Paul Cornish, Professor of Strategic Studies, University of Exeter
Speakers:
Lieutenant General Sir Nicholas Carter, Commander Land Forces
Air Vice Marshal Edward Stringer, Assistant Chief of the Air Staff
Caroline Wyatt, Defence Correspondent, BBC
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Closing Remarks
General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff
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Lunch