Senior-ranking Marshall Center graduates from 18 countries focused on current energy security issues at a conference conducted by the Marshall Center and U.S. European Command May 4-5 in Freising, Germany.
At the dinner preceding the conference, keynote speaker RADM (ret.) Chris Parry, former head of the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre of the UK’s Ministry of Defense, laid the groundwork for the two days of discussions with a talk outlining a strategic view for the future.
U.S. European Command Deputy Commander VADM Richard Gallagher opened the conference with an overview of the issues surrounding energy security. Three panels examined these issues more closely in an European context: Implications of European Energy Security, moderated by Dr. Gal Luft, Executive Director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; A Crisis in European Energy Security, moderated by Edward Chow, Senior Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Energy Program; and Energy Security from a European Perspective, moderated by Dr. rer.pol. Friedemann Müller, non-resident Senior Fellow of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
The energy security conference is the second in a series of Marshall Center conferences for senior alumni. The previous event, held in February 2008, focused on parliamentarians’ role in setting national security policy and strategies for harmonizing security policies among parliaments. A third conference for distinguished alumni is planned for September 2008.
Meeting at their seats as the conference begins are (left to right) Maj Gen Juris Maklakovs, Latvia (SES 2002-2), Mr. Tomas Graziunas, Lithuania (SES 2007-3) and Mr. Valeriu Ostalep, Moldova (EP 2003-5).
