On Tuesday 16th October 2012, GSF Advisory Board member, the Rt Hon Jack Straw MP opened our 2012-2013 events programme, drawing on his autobiography, Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor. The former Foreign Secretary (2001-2006) Jack Straw MP Continue reading
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies and Vice Principal, King’s College London gave our May lecture entitled, ‘After Iraq and Afghanistan: The Future of US Military Strategy?’ in an event chaired by Lord Anderson of Swansea on Monday Continue reading
Mark Sedwill CMG, the UK’s Special Representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan, opened GSF’s 2010-2011 lecture series with a lecture entitled ‘Afghanistan: Are British Objectives and the Timetable for 2014 still Intact?’ on Tuesday 11th October. In an event chaired by Continue reading
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, KCMG, LVO, former Ambassador to Afghanistan (2007-2009) and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (2009-2010), spoke on the future for Afghanistan in a fascinating lecture at the National Liberal Club on Tuesday 21st June Continue reading
On 1st March, Steven Jermy, formerly Strategy Director at the British Embassy in Kabul and author of ‘Strategy For Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century’ spoke in a GSF event entitled ‘Strategy in Afghanistan and Beyond: Delivering or Not Delivering on Continue reading
On 2nd November, Rory Stewart MP was our November guest lecturer, speaking to a packed Forum on the question of ‘Afghanistan: A Winnable War?’ The event was chaired by Lord Anderson of Swansea, who described the lecture as a ’tour de Continue reading
Global Strategy Forum and the Windsor Energy Group hosted a seminar entitled ‘Afghan Scenarios – A Nation In The Balance?’ in the House of Lords on Monday 8th March 2010. The seminar provided a series of expert perspectives, both on Continue reading
Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, was Global Strategy Forum’s second guest lecturer in January, on 26th January 2010. Speaking on ‘Britain in Afghanistan’ under the Chatham House Rule, he gave a compelling prediction Continue reading
On 10th June, Sir Hilary Synott KCMG, Minister Falah Mustapha Bakir, Mike Gapes MP and Huseyin Gun spoke in our second June debate , ‘Kurdistan Region In Iraq – What Prospects For The Future?’ which was chaired by Michael Ancram Continue reading
Lord King of Bridgwater, Sir Peter Tapsell and Hazhir Teimourian spoke in our Iraq debate on 22nd January 2008. Click here to download this article