18.Nov.2009 at 18 | David Ucko

Video now available: NWC Irregular War Conference (Updated)

The U.S. Naval War College has released videos from its conference in September, entitled ‘Irregular Warfare: Nasty, Brutish but Not Short’.

The conference brought together some of the sharpest minds on this topic and also some experts not usually associated with the ‘COIN community’ who were able to lend valuable perspective on some of its unquestioned assumptions. Suffice to say I would recommend anyone with an interest in counterinsurgency, its theory and its practice, to have a look at some of the videos now posted on the NWC’s own site.

For my own presentation, see Panel 5.

Panel 1: Definitions, Characteristics, and Nature of Insurgency

Anthony James Joes, Saint Joseph’s University
Bart Schuurman, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Frank Hoffman, Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies
Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics and Political Science
RDML Philip H. Greene, Jr., USN, Navy Irregular Warfare Office
Moderator: CAPT Thomas C. Sass, USN, U.S. Naval War College

Panel 2: Historical and Contemporary Case-Studies of Insurgencies, Part I

Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
John Tone, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ahmed S. Hashim, U.S. Naval War College
Jack McCuen, East West Connection
Moderator: Toshi Yoshihara, U.S. Naval War College

Panel 3: Historical and Contemporary Case-Studies of Insurgencies, Part II

Austin Long, Columbia University
Myriam Benraad, University of Paris
Thomas Johnson, Naval Postgraduate School
Brynjar Lia, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment
Jarrett Brachman, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
Moderator: Jonathan Pollack, U.S. Naval War College

Panel 4: Learning and Re-Learning Counterinsurgency, Part I

Erin Simpson, USMC Command and Staff College
Lt Col Jeremy E.D. Pughe-Morgan – Army’s Counterinsurgency Centre
Sergio Catignani, University of Sussex
Stephane Taillat, Universite Paul Valery Montpellier-III
Mark Kramer, Harvard University
Moderator: COL Robert M. Cassidy, USA, U.S. Naval War College

Panel 5: Learning and Re-Learning Counterinsurgency, Part II
(regrettably does not include the presentation by Col Alford mentioned in the yesterday’s post)

Michael Fitzsimmons, Institute for Defense Analyses
David Ucko, King’s College, London
Peter Mansoor, Ohio State University
Col Julian Alford, USMC, Institute for Defense Analyses
Moderator: COL David Brown, USA, U.S. Naval War College

Panel 6: Interagency, Ethical, Media and Non-Governmental Dimensions

Thomas Rid, SAIS
Ganesh Sitaraman, Harvard Law School
David Kilcullen, Adviser to U.S. Government
Moderator: Peter Dombrowski, U.S. Naval War College

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