The Counterinsurgency Center will be conducting a Counterinsurgency Spring Symposium from 11 - 13 May. This will provide a forum for Counterinsurgency leaders to exchange ideas and collaborate on recent developments in Counterinsurgency as it relates to the current fight in Afghanistan in order to gain an understanding of Counterinsurgency best practices so they can be promulgated across the JIIM spectrum.

The guest speakers are:

• LTCol Christian Cabaniss, 2nd Marine Div G3 Operations, USMC
  


• LCol Bertrand Cadour, Allied Transformation Command, NATO
  


• LCol Rupert Jones, Commander 4th Battalion The Rifles
  


• COL Joe Felter, Director of Counterinsurgency Advise and Assist Team (CAAT), Afghanistan
  


• COL Gian P. Gentile, Director of Military History Program at U.S. Military
     Academy at West Point
  


• Col Joseph Lacroix, CD Deputy Commander Joint Task Force Afghanistan
  


• Maj J. T. Adair, Officer Commanding C Company 2nd Battalion Princess
     Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
  


• MAJ Jerry Crigger, 6th Special Operations, USAF
  


• MAJ Jim Gant, AFPAK Hands, US Army Special Forces
  


• Dr. Lester Grau, Research Coordinator for Foreign Military Studies Office,
     Fort Leavenworth, KS
  


• Dr. Daniel Marston, Counterinsurgency at US Army Command & General
     Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS


• Dr. R. Scott Moore, Deputy Director for Center for Complex Operations
  

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

11 - 13 May 2010

"What is counterinsurgency and how as a military, do we approach the problem?"

Hosted by the US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency (Counterinsurgency) Center

Sponsored by : Combined Arms Center (CAC) and Counterinsurgency Center

Hosted at Townsend Hall, Battle Seminar Facility, Room 202
415 McPherson Avenue
Ft. Leavenworth, KS 66027
All proceedings are UNCLASSIFIED
Duty Uniform/Business Casual

Registration CLOSED
For more information call 913-684-5195

Priority to Invited Organizations