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title: "Meeting No. 13: Mackinder Forum Workshop (\"Expeditionary Operations as a Tool of Geopolitics\") sponsored by Major General Paul Newton CBE, MPhil, Director, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, B"
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# [Meeting No. 13: Mackinder Forum Workshop ("Expeditionary Operations as a Tool of Geopolitics") sponsored by Major General Paul Newton CBE, MPhil, Director, Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, B](https://mackinderforum.org/past-conferences-and-workshops/meeting-no-13-mackinder-forum-workshop-shrivenham-u-k-january-19-21-2009)

 Written by [admin](https://mackinderforum.org/past-conferences-and-workshops/author/admin) | May 23, 2025 8:49:44 PM

**"Asian Geopolitics and Expeditionary Operations: An Australian Perspective"**

Dr. Mike Evans, Fellow, Australian Defence College, Canberra, Australia

**"Case Study or Comparisons: What are the Criteria that Invoke This Type of Operation?"**

Dr. Jeremy Black, Professor, Established Chair in History, Exeter College

**"The Future of Expeditionary Operations"**

Frank Hoffman, USMC and Research Fellow, Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia

**"The History, Geo-strategy and Geopolitics of Expeditionary Operations"**

Dr. Greg Kennedy, Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy, Defence Studies Department, Kings College London

**"The Theory of Expeditionary Operations"**

Dr. Mac Owens, Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Directed Research, Professor of National Security Affairs, U. S. Naval War College, Newport, RI

**"The Diplomacy of Expeditionary Operations: A Case Study"**

Sir Ivor Roberts, CMG, KCMG, President, Trinity College, Oxford, UK

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