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Dr. Catherine Kelleher
First my apologies; I will never rely on GPS again. Over
the last hour or so, I have explored parts of Maryland I did not
know existed.
Dr. Catherine McArdle Kelleher is a professor at the University of
Maryland at College Park and also holds both a research appointment as Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute at Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island, and the honorary title of Research Professor
Emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
She is a member of the Naval Studies Board of the National Academy
of Sciences. She was also named an Honorary Professor at the Free
University of Berlin and is a Senior Faculty Associate for 2004–2009
at the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland. She
serves as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Naval Analysis in Washington.
In the Clinton Administration, she was the Personal Representative of
the Secretary of Defense in Europe and Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. She served on the National
Security Council staff during the Carter Administration and has consulted for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, and the Department of the Army. She was
Professor of Military Strategy at the National War College and has had
numerous other teaching assignments. She has been a research fellow at
the Institute of Strategic Studies in London and a Kistiakowsky fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and she has received individual research grants from NATO, the Council on Foreign Relations,
the German Marshall Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Ford
Foundation. Dr. Kelleher holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College
(bachelor of arts and doctor of letters) and from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (Ph.D.). She is the recipient of the Medal for
Distinguished Public Service from the DoD, the Director’s Medal from
the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Cross of Honor in Gold from
the Federal Armed Forces of Germany.
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Climate and Energy Proceedings 2011
Based on my look at the program and few remarks I have
heard here, I am sure that all of you share the feeling I have that
this conference, in a way, could not have happened at a more
opportune time. Although the Japanese tsunami was not caused
by climate change, I think the damage that has been suffered in
Japan gives you a sense of how the best laid preparations can seem
so inadequate when we have to deal with the force of water and
the problem of where we all like to live, what we all like to do,
and how much that is going to have to change in the future simply
because of climate change.
Imagine, if you can, what kind of picture we would have in
North Africa if there were not just a wave of revolution with uncertain effects facing us, but if, in fact, that wave were backed up by a
massive push of population from places in Africa where both water
and ways to support the population are in short supply. Imagine
all of those people crowding onto a littoral that is plenty crowded
already. I think all of us are under an enormous mandate to think
differently about the future. It is not a future that we want. It is not
one we are going to be comfortable with, but it is coming, and to
the best of our abilities, we have to think through what the implications are not just for the Navy but really for the kind of world
in which the United States is going to be operating. There will be
many, many demands for resources, and we are going to have to
come up with a new list of priorities and be able to defend them
not just to our own population but to other people as well.