ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s John G. Tower ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ presents Gen. Wesley K. Clark
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Tower ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ presents a forum on the future of global conflict with Gen. Wesley Clark presenting a major address.
The Program on National Security and Defense at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s will present its inaugural event – “The Future of Conflict: Military Roles and Missions – on November 13-14 on the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ campus.
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General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, will deliver the keynote address at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in the Umphrey Lee Ballroom. Reservations are required, and registration begins at noon, with a $35 per person fee for the address. (ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ students, faculty and staff may attend at no charge with ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ IDs.)
The two-day program also will feature military and business leaders, policymakers, analysts and scholars, who will discuss challenges to national security. At a time when security threats have become extraordinarily complex, those challenges include a growing isolationist mood, declining defense budgets and contending approaches to the use of force.
The opening Tower Forum panel discussion – "How the Military Is Relating to the Changing Nature of Conflict" – begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Collins Executive Education ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. Texas State Representative Dan Branch, chair of the Tower ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s Board of Directors, will introduce the panel of Flag Officers: Major General Robert H. Scales, Jr. (Ret.); Rear Admiral William R. Burke, director of Navy Quadrennial Defense Review; Brigadier General Mark Clark, U.S. Marine Corps; Major General Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., Deputy Judge Advocate General, Headquarters U.S. Air Force; Major General David Fastabend, U.S. Army; Rear Admiral Brian Salerno, U.S. Coast Guard; and Lt. General John R. Wood, Deputy Commander, Joint Forces Command. Lee Cullum, journalist and Tower ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ senior fellow, and Tower ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ acting director Seyom Brown will lead the discussion.
Panel discussions November 14 at the Meadows Museum’s Smith Auditorium include "The Emergent Geopolitics of Conflict" at 9 a.m., "Technological Change and Its Military Implications" at 11 a.m., and "Military Roles and Missions" at 2:30 p.m. Reservations are required for the panel discussions, which are free of charge.
To RSVP or for more information, email tower@smu.edu or call 214-768-3954. .