Can the United States Build an Effective Pacific Strategy for the 21st Century?

The United States faces financial, strategic and intellectual challenges in shaping an effective pacific strategy for the 21^st century.  This forum will look at these challenges and various ways to shape capabilities, which would allow the US and its allies to meet the various challenges of a 21st, approach.

We will be looking at various discrete challenges, as well as specific dynamics in the region, which will define the nature of the problem and paths to its resolution.

About SLD Forum

The SLD Forum focuses on key issues shaping the future of national security capabilities. We have dealt with the future of Pacific strategy, the future of airpower, the nature and impact of the Bold Alligator 2012 exercise and Just Do It or how to shape a post-Afghan US military. In this Forum, we are looking at what can be done in the next decade to shape an effective US and allied set of strategies to deal with the Pacific, understood as ranging from the Arctic to Australia.