Sep 09. Irregular Warfare Conference, San Diego, California, United States, 21 & 22 October 2009. 25 Leading Experts from: AFSPC, Navy IWO, Army/USMC COIN Center, USMC CIW, AFSOC, AF/CIWC, NSAWC, 571 CRG, Joint Staff, ONR, JNLWP, JIEDDO, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, SAIC, AWC, NWC, CNA, IDS, NEK, and Strategic Insight examine:
a. IW – A New Paradigm for Future Warfighting
b. Potential Impact on Strategy, Doctrine, Procurement and Operations
c. OSD and Service Plans, Needs and Initiatives
d. IW vs. Conventional Warfighting – Future Hybrid Threats
e. New Approaches to COIN and Counter-Terrorism
f Inter-Agency Coordination in Future Conflicts
Speakers Include:
a. Brig Gen Tod Wolters – Director, Strategy, Air Force Space Command
b. RADM Mark I. Fox – Commander, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center
c. RADM Philip Greene – Deputy Director, Navy IW Office
About The Conference
Irregular Warfare — Impact of the New Warfighting Paradigm
DoD Directive 3000.07, released in December 2008, places the mission of irregular warfare on an equal footing with conventional warfare in future military planning. Irregular Warfare objectives are to provide a continuum of strategies, tools, and capabilities for dealing with tomorrow’s complex and increasingly asymmetrical challenges to US military and geo-political interests, including new approaches for dealing with counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, and the stabilization and reconstruction/rehabilitation of adversary states and entities. Lessons learned from counter-insurgency (COIN), counter-terror, and stability operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, are driving the formulation of new IW policy, which will in turn impact future military strategy, doctrine, operations, procurement/capital investment, and support. How can your organization play a role? This outstanding conference brings together the key experts and critical organizations who will be shaping the development of irregular warfare. They will examine the latest information on OSD and Service formulation of needs, initiatives, roles and responsibilities for “IW.”
a. How is IW different from conventional warfare? What about Hybrid Threats? What new capabilities are needed?
b. How will IW impact personnel and training requirements? INTEL and information sharing?
c. What are the missions and objectives of the Service IW offices? Special Operations?
d. What new roles and capabilities are envisioned for ground, naval, air, and space forces and assets?
e. What are the COIN Lessons Learned from Iraq and Afghanistan?
These and many other critical questions will be exhaustively examined during this timely two-day event.
Our Distinguished Panel of Experts
a. Brig Gen Tod Wolters – Director, Strategy, Air Force Space Command
b. RADM Mark I. Fox – Commander, Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center
c. RADM Philip Greene – Deputy Director, Navy IW Office
d. COL Daniel S. Roper – Director, Army/Marine Corps COIN Center, Combined Arms Center
e. Col Tracey “Red” Skelton – Commander, 571st Contingency Response Group
f. Col Ross Victor – Director, Coalition and IW Center of Excellence, USAF Air Warfare Center
g. Mr. Jim McMains – Director, Combating Terrorism and Integration Division, ONR
h. Mr. Hale Laughlin – Chief, Irregular Warfare, Air Force Special Operations Command
i. LtCol Robert Baird – Deputy Director, Marine Corps Center for IW
j. LtCol Paul Scholl – Chief, Requirements Division, Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate
k. LtCol Sam Mowery – Chief, Warfighting Analysis Division, J-8 Joint Staff
l. Mr. John Tsagronis – Vice President, National Security Strategy, SAIC
m. Dr. Thomas Bowditch – Director, Strategic Initiatives, Center for Naval Analyses
n. Mr. Richard Cervisi – Director, Advanced Combat Operations, Boeing
o. Mr. Mike Deegan – Director, Advanced Soldier Systems, Boeing
p. Ms. Anne McGee – Special Research Analyst, JIEDDO
q. Col (ret) Mike Isherwood – Directo