Video and presentations: Conference of Defence Associations and CDA Institute meetings March 4, 3

Here's the latest available, note videos of Generals Natynczyk and Petraeus (both pages below to be updated as material becomes available, agendas here):

Update: Do read the piece by Jack Granatstein (March 4, Panel III), starts off slow and sweet but there's an awful lot of bite about the government (and the opposition) towards the end. Very similar, I feel able to say, to much that we have been saying here.

March 4:

CDA 73rd Annual General Meeting: Power Projection and the Canadian Forces: Resources & Capabilities

March 4, 2010
Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa

For presentations from the CDA Institute annual seminar on March 3, 2010, please visit the CDA Institute website.

Opening Address
General Walter Natynczyk, Chief of the Defence Staff [CPAC video]

Panel I – Media and the Military [CPAC video]
Brian Stewart, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
Jocelyn Coulon, Université de Montréal

Special Address
Lieutenant General (Ret’d) James Soligan, Deputy Chief of Staff NATO Allied Command Transformation – The NATO Multiple Futures Project

Panel II – Canada’s National Interests and Force Projection: Required Capabilities
Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, Chief of the Maritime Staff [Remarks]
Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie, Chief of the Land Staff
Lieutenant-General André Deschamps, Chief of the Air Staff

Special Address
General David Petraeus, Commander US Central Command [Remarks] [CPAC video]

Panel III – The Harper Government & Defence: How Far Have We Come, Where Are We Going?
Dr. Jack Granatstein, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute – Harper Government and Defence After Four Years
Dr. Douglas Bland, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University
Colonel (Ret’d) Brian MacDonald, Conference of Defence Associations [Presentation]

March 3:

CDA Institute 26th Annual Seminar: Protecting Canada’s National Interests in an Uncertain World

3 March 2010
Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa

For presentations from the CDA annual general meeting on March 4, 2010, please visit the CDA website.

Opening Address
Dr. Eliot Cohen, Johns Hopkins University – Warfare and Security in an Uncertain World

Keynote Address
Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations, US Navy – The importance of seapower in the 21st century

Panel I – Canada’s Strategic Interests: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. Rob Huebert, University of Calgary – Arctic Security
Dr. Ronald Deibert, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto – Strategic importance of cyberspace

Luncheon Speaker
Senator Hugh Segal – Beyond the Celebration: The Next Naval Century

Panel II – Learning from Afghanistan: Capabilities Across the Spectrum
Chris Alexander, former Canadian Ambassador to Afghanistan, former United Nations Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan
Dr. David Kilcullen, author of “The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One”
Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, former Commander Canadian Joint Task Force-Afghanistan

Panel III – Contemporary Security Concerns
Margaret Purdy, University of British Columbia – Security implications of climate change
Dr. Charles Doran, Johns Hopkins University – Energy security
Dr. Fen Hampson, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University – Regionalization of global security