The Latrun International Annual Conference held September 6 – 8, 2011.
Hundreds attendees include guests from the IDF, other militaries and representative of the Israeli Defense Industries.

Some of the conference's proceedings and media messages can found at ILWS Library.
More of it will posted at the website soon
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 On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Lieutenant General Mark P. Hertling, commanding general of the U.S. Army Europe, visited Latroun, Israel as part of a two day tour of the country. He met with his IDF counterpart, Major General Sami Turgeman, to discuss training cooperation between the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Afterwards, the Lieutenant General was given a tour of the Latroun Museum and grounds, guided by Director of the Zvi Meitar Institute for Land Warfare Studies, Gideon Avidor.
 
 
 
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The 4th Conference's Proceedings by Russell W. Glenn, Ph.D
 
 
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Rapid Deployment Forces in the 21st Century - LTG Joseph Votel, U.S. Army, Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command
LTG Votel drew recent examples of RDF and SOF employment and how those experiences have influenced those forces’ roles, their integration with general purpose forces, and expectations regarding RDF in the current operating environment.
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Army Acquisition at Times of Constant Changes - Ms. Heidi Shyu
Ms. Shyu discribed how the U.S. Army reing acquisition to develop a more agile process that directly meets the needs of its soldiers. In addition, she discussed the U.S. Department of Defense’s Better Buying Power Initiatives and how the army acquisition community is ensuring that less money is spent on overhead and more on warfighting capabilities.
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Logistics Support during the Ground Campaign - COL Keith Sledd
This presentation discusses lessons learned regarding leadership, training, operations, and troop leading procedures relevant to logistics operations in a combat theater. The speaker uses examples from unit operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom to illustrate these lessons, the goal being to share insights that other units might find valuable during future operations.
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Popular Support - MG R Paul D. Eaton , U.S. Army, er Commanding General, Coalition Military Assistance Training Team, Iraq
The difference between the development of an army and of a police force were not immediately acknowledged, nor was the mission accorded main effort status given the counterinsurgency fight underway. In many ways, as the analogy goes, it was like building an airplane in flight while under attack The U.S. experience in Iraq may offer lessons learned applicable to current efforts to create a viable Palestinian Security Force.
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The Sunni Arab Awakening in Iraq and its Implications for Counter-Insurgency Operations - BG Sean B. MacFarland, U.S. Army, Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
This presentation analyzes how local Sheikhs build the Awakening movement and how coalition forces supported it. Awakening Sunni forces and the coalition became equal partners, which enabled us to win the counterinsurgency effort the coalition was conducting in Al Anbar province. Although all insurgencies are different and vary greatly from province to province – and even valley to valley – there are some lessons we can learn from this experience.
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Logistical Resilience as a Key Response to the Threats on the Civil Front - BG Ret. Meir Elran, Senior Researcher at INSS
"We are talking about all hazards approach, which discusses a system capability to, absorbs, survive and reconstruct itself from disasters. "
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Medical Support during Ground Operation - BG Dr. Nachman Ash, IDF Surgeon
"We need to talk about the battlefield medical support aims – the first one is ideological – live saving, and than we want to reduce handicaps and suffering."
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Logistics Support in Multi-Fronts Situation - BG Mofid Ganem, IDF Chief Logistics Officer
"The supply chain aim is to ensure needed resources for the fighting troops will be in the right place in the right time and in the proper types and quantities."
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The Logistics System to Ensure Fighting Continuity - MG Ret. Hagai Shalom, Former Head of IDF's Logistics
"First we have to say that the needs did not changed' fighting needs are the same, operational requirements are the same and the aims to win and gain security did not changed."
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Logistics Challenges in Light of Land Warfare Constrains - MG Dan Biton, Head of IDF's Logistics
"The main issue is fighting continuity, if we will understand that logistics should ensure fighting continuity we will prepare it before war erupts and do thing while it is conduct making it happen."
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