RUSI Land Warfare Conference 2014

Chair: Professor Michael Clarke, Director-General, Royal United Services Institute

General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff

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

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

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

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

Chief of the General Staff’s Breakfast Forum: Junior Officers and RUSI ‘Under 35’ members – by invitation

Chair: Professor Michael Clarke, Director-General, Royal United Services Institute

The Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, Secretary of State for Defence

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

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

General Sir Peter Wall, Chief of the General Staff