
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held an event, Losing the Battle, on November 1, 2011, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m., to discuss the issue of suicide in the U.S. military with a distinguished panel of experts, including the author of the CNAS report, Losing the Battle: The Challenge of Military Suicide, Dr. Margaret Harrell, who is a Senior Fellow at CNAS and Director of the Joining Forces Initiative; General Peter Chiarelli, Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; Juliette Kayyem, national security columnist for The Boston Globe and a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University; and Dr. Jan Kemp, National Mental Health Program Director for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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On October 7, 2011, CNAS released Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity at an event featuring a discussion with the report authors - LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Dr. Nora Bensahel and Travis Sharp - and leading defense and budget experts Gordon Adams and Tom Donnelly. Read the full transcript here.
| more |The "Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Al Qaeda: 10 Years After 9/11 and Beyond," session at the CNAS fifth annual conference featured: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor of The Washington Post; Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow at CNAS; Steve Coll, President of New America Foundation; Ambassador Anne Patterson, Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; and Bing West, Author of The Wrong War. Read the transcript here.
| more |CNAS hosted Jake Sullivan, Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, for an address on "American Foreign Policy Priorities in an Age of Uncertainty," at the CNAS fifth annual conference on June 2, 2011. Read the transcript here.
| more |Nathaniel Fick, CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), delivered opening remarks at the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011. Read the transcript here.
| more |The "Revolution in the Middle East: Democracy and the Digital Domain," session at the CNAS fifth annual conference featured: Karen House, Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, and member of the CNAS Board of Directors; Andrew Exum, Fellow, CNAS; Richard Fontaine, Senior Fellow, CNAS; Shadi Hamid, Director of Research, The Brookings Doha Center; and Dr. Colin Kahl, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, Department of Defense. Read the transcript here.
| more |Lieutenant General David M. Rodriguez, USA, joined the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011, via VTC from Ft. Lewis, Washington to deliver the keynote address "Afghanistan 2011: The Operational Commander's Perspective."
"America's Cyber Future: Security And Prosperity In The Information Age," a roundtable discussion hosted at the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011, featured: Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter at The Washington Post; Rand Beers, Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department of Homeland Security; Robert Butler, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy; Dr. Kristin Lord, Vice President and Director of Studies at CNAS; and Max Kelly, Former Chief Security Officer at Facebook.
| more |Nathaniel Fick, Dr. John Nagl, Dr. Kristin Lord and Dr. Andrew Bacevich present the 1LT Andrew J. Bacevich, Jr., USA, Fellowship to CNAS Research Associate Travis Sharp.
| more |"Cooperation and Competition: China and the Asia-Pacific," a roundtable discussion hosted at the CNAS Fifth Annual Conference on June 2, 2011, featured: David E. Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent of The New York Times; Dr. Bernard D. Cole, Professor of International History at the National War College; Dr. Patrick Cronin, CNAS Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow; Admiral Patrick M. Walsh, USN, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet; and Dr. Douglas Paal, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. You may read the transcript of the discussion here and watch the video online here.
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