You've read the books, now see the movie

Hopefully, you will have read the Final Reports of GUASA Roundtable 1 (September 2013), and Roundtable 2 (October 2014). These two initial roundtables informed and provided the impetus and basis for a CNAS/GUASA Panel presentation on "The Hill" in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2015. The agenda, including participant bios, for this event was posted here.

Videos of the Keynote addresses, as well as of the two panel presentations, are hosted on YouTube, and embedded below.

Thanks again to the singularly important efforts of Paul S. Giarra and Dr. Patrick Cronin for their conception, creation and coordination of the event, and to the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) whose facilities and staff GUASA has relied on to bring its concerns and message of its efforts to Capital Hill. It would have been only a dream without them, and the support of their colleagues and associates.

And grateful thanks and appreciation to the Keynote Speakers and the panelists for their expert, thoughtful and pertinent remarks and comments, and to Richard Fontaine, President of CNA, for compèring the event.


Keynote Remarks of Representative Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Delegate from the U.S. Territory of Guam





Keynote Remarks of Senator John McCain, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee






Keynote Remarks of Representative Matthew Salmon, Chairman, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific House Foreign Affairs Committee






Panel 1: Strategic Issues in Maritime Asia

Dr. Patrick M. Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program
Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Shawn Brimley, Executive Vice President and Director of Studies
Center for a New American Security

Dr. Ely Ratner, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program
Center for a New American Security

Bryan McGrath, Deputy Director, Center for American Seapower
Hudson Institute

Dr. Thomas Mahnken, Director of the Advanced Strategy Program
Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Panel 2: U.S. Presence, Force Posture, and the Role of the Marianas

Dr. Jerry Hendrix, Senior Fellow and Director, Defense Strategies and Assessments Program
Center for a New American Security

Dr. Thomas Bickford, Asia Analyst, China Studies Division
Center for Naval Analyses

Shirley Kan
Formerly of the Congressional Research Service (CRS)

Paul Giarra, President
Global Strategies & Transformation

Juan Carlos Benitez, Principal
Guam-US-Asia Security Alliance (GUASA)