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Third annual Australia-United States Strategic Trilogy
2008 Seminar Dinner
Future Security Strategy in the Western Pacific
20 November 2008
Hyatt Hotel, Canberra
Registration to the Kokoda seminar dinner is open to the general public from Australia and overseas. Details for the seminar dinner in November will be posted to our website soon.
Inquiries to:
Seminar-Dinner Manager
The Kokoda Foundation
GPO Box 321
Canberra City ACT 2601
Telephone: (02) 6204 1822
Fax: (02) 6169 3019
E-mail: manager@kokodafoundation.org
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2007 Seminar-Dinner
Strategy for Winning the Long Struggle – Key Factors for Success
29 November-2 December 2007
Old Parliament House, Canberra
The Kokoda Foundation's second Australia-United States Strategic Trilogy Strategy for Winning the Long Struggle was a great success. |
We were honoured to host a very senior United States delegation for this program that included:
- Ambassador Stephen Mull, Assistant Secretary, Political-Military Affairs, Department of State
- Dr Thomas Mahnken, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning
- James C Clad, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia
- MAJGEN Bobby Wilkes, Deputy Director, Political-Military Affairs, US Joint Staff
- Ambassador John E. Herbst, Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, Department of State
- Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- Ambassador Henry Crumpton, former Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State
- Dr Dov Zakheim, former Under Secretary for Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Finance Officer
- LTGEN John Vines, recently retired commander XVIII Airborne Corps
Ralph Cossa, President Pacific Forum CSIS, Honolulu
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Australian participants included the Hon. Joel Fitzgibbon, whose appointment as the new Minister for Defence was announced only that afternoon. The Minister kindly agreed to speak briefly at the Seminar-Dinner.
Other Australian participants included most of the Australian Defence Force Chiefs, the Secretaries of the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, the Director-General of Security and a large number of other senior national security officials.
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