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social environment with their hosts. This is always an excellent
time to build relationships between institutions, as the students
are able to share their own experiences and hear about how their
lives compare and contrast.
ALLIES also sent delegations to all three of the major military
academies’ international student conferences: a delegation of five
to the US Military Academy at West Point in November; a delegation
of four to the Air Force Academy in Colorado in February; and a
delegation of two to the US Naval Academy in Annapolis in April.
The Student Conference on US Affairs (SCUSA) is a four-day
conference at the US Military Academy at West Point, bringing together students from over 150 schools. Delegates participate
in round table discussions on a variety of current issues and on the problems faced by all the major world regions. At
the end of the conference, students generate a short policy proposal paper discussing the issues they identified and the
solutions they came up with over the course of the discussion. While staying in the barracks with the cadets, the students
also attended panel discussion, keynote lecture and engaged in six different round table discussions. The topic of this year’s
SCUSA was “Challenges to Security: Extremism, Resources, and Globalization.”
Since 1961, the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference (NAFAC) has provided an annual forum for outstanding
undergraduates to meet and discuss major contemporary issues. The
Conference has become a way of bringing together the nation’s future Navy and Marine Corps officers with their peers from
other colleges and universities, both civilian and military, from across the country and around the world. The 2007 topic
was “Asia at the Crossroads.”
Convened annually since 1959, the United States Air Force Academy Assembly is an undergraduate student conference
sponsored jointly by the Air Force Academy and Columbia University’s American Assembly. Held on the Academy grounds at
the base of the Rampart Range, this conference provides a unique opportunity for over 200 highly qualified undergraduates
to discuss a topic of contemporary significance. The topic of this year’s conference was “Continent at a Crossroads: Prosperity,
Justice and Security in South America.” Students cap the week of hard work with a written consensus report reflecting the
dominant views and policy recommendations. The highly acclaimed report is widely distributed to both academic and
government institutions.
In April, two ALLIES members – the only two undergraduates – attended a conference on “The Interagency Process in
Stability and Support Operations: The Integration and Alignment of Military and Civilian Roles and Missions” at Texas A&M
University. The research symposium was co-hosted by the Bush School of Government and Public Service and the U.S. Army
War College’s Strategic Studies Institute. Veteran defense and military professionals participated, discussing how to develop
and strengthen the understanding of U.S. military and government leaders’ responsibilities to ensure effective interagency
cooperation in stability and support operations.
In May, ALLIES sent one of its members with a cadet to Fuerzas Aliadas Humanitarias 2007 (FAHUM 07), a regional disaster relief
seminar in Guatemala that was cosponsored by the US Southern Command and the Guatemalan Ministry of Defense.
Military and civilian agencies from throughout the Western Hemisphere participated with the goal of enhancing civilmilitary
cooperation and building humanitarian assistance capabilities. This year’s exercise theme was “New Approaches to
Old Threats: Seismic Events and Regional Health Issues.”
The ALLIES delegates had three primary goals at the conference: to educate themselves on the civil-military interactions
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