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U.S. Policy in Afghanistan
Basic Questions — Strategic Choices
Date: |
October 29, 2009 | |
Time: |
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
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Location: |
Russell Senate Office Building |
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Program
| 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:15 a.m. | Welcome Remarks | |
| David Aaron | Director, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy | |
| Michael Rich | Executive Vice President, RAND Corporation |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Keynote Speaker | |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | U.S. National Security Advisor (1977–1981) Chair, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy Advisory Board |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Panel on Counterinsurgency | |
| Fred Kagan | Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute | |
| Arturo Munoz | Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation | |
| Paul Pillar | Professor of Security Studies, Georgetown University | |
| Moderator: | Peter David | Washington Bureau Chief, The Economist |
| 10:00 a.m. | Panel on Counterterrorism | |
| Brian Michael Jenkins | Senior Advisor, RAND Corporation | |
| Steve Coll | President, New America Foundation | |
| Terrence Kelly | Senior Researcher, RAND Corporation | |
| Michael O'Hanlon | Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution | |
| Moderator: | Yochi Dreazen | Military Reporter, The Wall Street Journal |
| 11:00 a.m. | Panel on Containment | |
| James Dobbins | Director, RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center U.S. Ambassador to the European Community (1991–1993) U.S. Special Envoy for Afghanistan (2001–2002) | |
| Christopher Preble | Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute | |
| Stephen Walt | Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | |
| Moderator: | Kevin Sullivan | Deputy Foreign Editor, Washington Post |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| Introductory Remarks | ||
| Zalmay Khalilzad | U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2007–2009), to Iraq (2005–2007), and to Afghanistan (2003–2005) Member, RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy Advisory Board |
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| Address | ||
| Carl Levin | United States Senator; Chairman, Senate Committee on Armed Services |
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| 1:00 p.m. | Adjourn | |
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