8:30am Chairman’s Welcome & Opening Remarks

8:45amDoD Keynote: Transnational Criminal Activities that Support and Sustain IW

• Detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs into the United States in support of law enforcement agencies
• Performance measurement systems tracking the progress of counternarcotics efforts
• Improving the DoD’s system to manage and oversee global threats

William F. Wechsler
DASD, Counternarcotics & Global Threats
Office of the Secretary of Defense

9:30amARMY IW SESSION: Countering Insurgency in Complex Threat Environments

• Doctrine implementation and best practice tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)
• Integrating and synchronizing irregular warfare capabilities, initiatives and activities
• Countering irregular threats

Lieutenant Colonel John Paganini
Director, Army Counter-Insurgency Center
Army Irregular Warfare Fusion Cell

11:00amCOUNTER-TERRORISM: Capabilities and Requirements Necessary for Countering-Terrorism

• Organizing a database of terrorist incidents
• Analyzing attack data from year to year to identify patterns and notable deviations or trends
• Perpetrators, types of attacks, victims and targets of attacks

Aaron Hamilton
National Counter-Terrorism Center
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

11:45am The Dynamics of Revolutionary Warfare

• How fourth generation warfare signifies the nation-state’s loss of their near-monopoly on combat forces
• The return to modes of conflict common in pre-modern times
• Blurring the lines between war and politics, soldier and civilian
• Using all available pressures – political, economic, and social – not just the military

Reyes Cole
Branch Head
USMC Center for Irregular Warfare

1:30pm Countering Violent Extremism

• Understanding the basic ideology of violent extremist organizations
• Threats and opportunities driving terrorist initiatives and current expressions
• Strategies for winning the long war against extreme violence

Patrick Sookhdeo, Ph.D, D.D., F. Sy.I.
Adjunct Professor
European Center for Security Studies

2:15pm AIR FORCE KEYNOTE: Role of the Air Force in Irregular Conflicts: Capabilities and Future Development

• Airpower’s ability to conduct precision strikes across the globe in support of counterinsurgency operations
• AFSOC capabilities and future development for Irregular Warfare
• Air Force information: intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and global mobility

G. Hale Laughlin
Irregular Warfare Strategy, Plans, and Integration
Air Force Special Operations Command

3:45pm Stabilization, Security, Transition and Reconstruction Operations

• Planning for interagency and multinational features of stability operations
• Establishing criteria and evaluating the success and failure of stability operations
• Educating irregular warfare operators using complex operations case studies

Karen Guttieri, Ph.D
Global Public Policy Academic Group
Naval Post Graduate School

4:30pm ARMY KEYNOTE: US Army Operational Capabilities and Strategic Planning for Irregular Warfare

• Coordinating the development of aspects of special operations How OSD guidelines will affect US Army operations in complex environments
• Acquisition requirements to meet the changing roles of the US Army