
Deputy Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter spoke at the CNAS annual conference on June 12, 2013. Review the official Defense Department transcript here.
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CNAS Chief Executive Officer Robert Work opened the CNAS 2013 Annual Conference with welcoming remarks and introduced Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and Al Hunt of Bloomberg News.
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Read the transcript of Senator Bob Corker's (R-TN) conversation with Bloomberg View's Al Hunt at the CNAS 2013 Annual Conference on June 12.
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The Atlantic's Yochi Dreazen moderated a discussion at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12 on the challenges and prejudices that veterans face in regintegrating into their communities. Participants in the session included Phillip Carter, Senior Fellow, Counsel, and Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at CNAS; Dawn Halfaker, Chair of the Wounded Warriors Project; and Todd Bowers, Vice President of the JP Morgan Chase Foundation.
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David Sanger of the New York Times moderated a discussion at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12 among Ambassador Jeff Bader of Brookings, The Hon. Kurt Campbell of CNAS, and Victor Cha of Georgetown University on how the U.S. fits into the complex web of relationships among Asian-Pacific states as it tries to rebalance its foreign policy towards the region.
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In a brief presentation at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12, CNAS Senior Fellow Dr. Colin Kahl outlined a comprehensive framework to manage and mitigate the consequences should Iran acquire a nuclear weapons capability.

CNAS Non-resident Senior Fellow John Nagl presented the annual Lt1 Andrew Bacevich Jr., USA Fellowship to Zachary Hosford at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12.
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In a brief presentation at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12, CNAS Senior Advisor & Senior Fellow LTG David Barno, USA (Ret.) outlined the ways in which warfare has evolved in recent years and how these trends will shape future conflicts.
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Incoming Foreign Policy editor Noah Shachtman moderated a discussion at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12 with Dr. Irving Lachow, Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at CNAS; Ben FitzGerald, Managing Director of Noetic Corporation; and Rosa Brooks, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center on the way emerging technologies will disrupt the national security environment and the ethical challenges posed by their use.
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McKinsey Principal Andrew Erdmann explored the ongoing boom in the production of unconventional fossil fuels in the U.S. and the way that the boom in transforming global energy markets at the 2013 CNAS Annual Conference on June 12.
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