CNAS President John Nagl presents Brian Burton as the fourth Bacevich Fellow, a fellowship created in the memory of 1st Lieutenant Andrew Bacevich, son of Boston University Professor Andrew Bacevich.
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A distinguished panel moderated by Ambassador Nicholas Burns that featured the State Department’s Director of Policy Planning Anne-Marie Slaughter, The New York Times’ David Sanger, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Elliott Cohen, and CNAS' Kirstin Lord and Patrick Cronin rounds out the CNAS fourth annual conference. They discussed the Obama administration’s stated policy of engagement as a core pillar of the United States’ diplomatic strategy.
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Former ISAF commander LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) moderated a the second panel of the CNAS fourth annual conference. The panel was designed to brief the President on the state of the allied campaign in Afghanistan from the perspective of 2013 and featured the Carnegie Endowment’s Ashley Tellis, Georgetown University’s Paul Pillar, and CNAS’ Richard Fontaine.
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Tom Ricks moderates a panel that examines how the U.S. military will evolve in light of current needs and future constraints. The panel included noted experts such as SOCOM commander Gen Eric Olson, USN; Peter Singer of the Brookings Institute; Jim Thomas of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments; and John Nagl of CNAS.
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CNAS Chairman of the Board Richard Danzig and Board member Leo Mackay open the CNAS fourth annual conference with brief remarks on the organization’s history and current work.
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Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy delivered the keynote address at the CNAS 4th annual conference "Shaping the Agenda: American National Security in the 21st Century," and discussed challenges and opportunities to rebalance and reform U.S. instruments of soft power.
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