The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics
Laboratory (JHU/APL) and Paul H. Nitze School
of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
sponsor the fourth annual Unrestricted
Warfare Symposium (URW) at APL’s Kossiakoff
Center. This year, the theme is "Imperatives for
Interagency Action" and will identify integrated
strategy, analysis, and technology options that
enhance interagency capabilities to respond to
four potential unrestricted lines of attack—cyber,
resource, economic/financial, and terrorist
threats. The themed keynote address, featured speakers with unique expertise, and roundtable panelists addressing integrated
strategies are designed to further develop understanding and solutions.
APL Kossiakoff Center, Site for URW 2009
Perspectives from senior government leaders in
response to attendees’ questions are combined
to provide a uniquely synergistic approach to the
challenge and an enduring body of knowledge.
The symposium also features interactive
audience participation using electronic
groupware.
We will assess what leading strategists, analysts, and technologists
should consider viable future force capabilities when combating
unrestrictive warfare threats. Active attendee participation and
networking will form a new, integrated community dedicated to
countering our increasingly sophisticated adversaries.
Mr. James Locher, III, Executive Director of the
Project for National Security Reform, will provide
his unique perspective on imperatives for
interagency actions and national security
challenges. Other confirmed speakers include
Dr. Stephen Flynn, from the Council on Foreign
Relations, who will apply the principle of
resiliency across the federal and private industry
sectors; Professor Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown
University, who will update us on terrorism
trends and future directions; Mr. James
Rickards, Omnis, Inc., will address the potential
of financial and economic attacks in the context
of a global economy; Prof Michael Klare, author
of Resource Wars; Mr. Eric Coulter, of
OSD(PA&E) who will offer insights as to how
unrestricted warfare creates imperatives for
analytic approaches that integrate diverse
interagency capabilities; and Mr. Dan Wolf,
Cyber Pack Ventures Inc., who will discuss
actual and potential threats to information
systems, networks, and the computers that
have become integral to our lives. To provide a
critical intelligence perspective, we have invited
Ms. Karen Monaghan, National Intelligence Council.
The symposium includes five roundtables
composed of a moderator and expert panelists.
Each roundtable will address integrated options
that enhance interagency capabilities to
respond to one of the four potential unrestricted
lines of attack. The moderator will provide a brief
overview of the topic and introduce the
panelists. Each panelist will then have 10 to
15 minutes to present his or her views, after
which the group will take questions from the
audience.
The Symposium’s culminating event is a panel of senior-level
government and military leaders—such as DoD’s Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Policy Planning, Deputy Director, Strategic Assessments
and Irregular Warfare, as well as senior representatives
from the National Intelligence Council, the Department of Energy,
Department of Homeland Security the State Department, Treasury
Department, and the National Counterterrorism Center. These
distinguished panelists will offer their perspectives on integrating
strategy, analysis, and technology to support interagency actions in
response to national security threats. Panelists will then take
questions from the audience.
There are no rules; nothing is forbidden. We encounter a national
security threat different from the conventional warfare for which
we have become preeminent in the world. Adversaries employing
unrestricted warfare use many modalities to create integrated
attacks exploiting diverse areas of vulnerability in support of their
grand strategy. Unrestricted warfare battlefields reach beyond the
physical domain to include culture, information networks, economics
and finance, natural resources and energy. This 2009 URW
Symposium will focus on Imperatives for Interagency Actions to
characterize potential lines of attack representing threats that
pose significant impact to national security, and demand an
integrated interagency response.
"This is another type of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origins—war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins;
war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead
of engaging him…. It requires in those situations where we must counter it… a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different
kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training."
John F. Kennedy
USMA Graduation Speech, 1962