The lead discussant was Joe Conway, a Research Associate at the Institute for ForeignPolicyAnalysis and co-author of Long-Range Bombers and the Role of Airpower in the New Century.
They epitomize the clear-headed analysis of foreign and defense policy and courageous leadership that earned this long-time member of the Center's Board of Advisors the organization's "Keeper of the Flame" award in 1992.
But he never answers, or even attempts to answer, the question that most obviously arises from his analysis: how would the United States make peace with with a deliberately hegemonic Russian foreignpolicy?