Proteus: New Insights for a New Age. The Proteus Futures Academic Workshop (CSL, Issue Paper, Volume 10-06, October 2006)

The Proteus Management Group PMG hosted the first annual Proteus Futures Academic Workshop 22-24 August 06 at the Center for Strategic Leadership, United States Army War College at Carlisle Barracks. This workshop was focused on providing scholars from various organizations the opportunity to present papers on topics and issues related to the Proteus Insights that addressed future strategic national security challenges. Workshop participants were from a variety of nations, disciplines, and backgrounds, and included students and faculty from universities, colleges and military service schools government civilian and military senior leaders, planners and analysts from joint agencies, the uniformed services and the national intelligence community former political appointees, and international representatives from Canada and Israel. This initial workshop was the culmination of a year of inaugural activities and centered on scholarly research, study and writing by interested individuals and organizations. The workshop plenary sessions consisted of five different panels that provided a variety of topics for the presenters and panelists to consider. Panelists who had submitted workshop papers were given the opportunity to explain their theses during panel sessions and take questions from the other panelists and participants. A total of 17 papers were presented.