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On August 7, 2010, Robert D. Blackwill delivered the 2nd Annual Ernest May Lecture at the Aspen Strategy Group. Blackwill discussed the importance of exercising caution when applying the lessons of history to the conflict in Afghanistan. Those in attendance included House Homeland Security Chair Jane Harman, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Howard Berman, Senator Jack Reed, former NATO Director General Javier Solana, Aspen Strategy Group co-chairs Joseph Nye and Brent Scowcroft, pictured with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Blackwill.

On June 16, authors Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier joined Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson for a discussion of their new book America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11, hosted by the Aspen Strategy Group. Drawing on deep experience and broad access to the major players of the decade, professors Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier discussed the foreign policy confusion of the 1990's and how insights gained from that turbulent period that should inform today’s decision makers. In their new book, Chollet and Goldgeier give the reader an inside account of leaders struggling to come to grips with a rapidly transforming global geopolitical landscape. Instead of thinking of 9/11 as the beginning date of present day foreign policy, Chollet and Goldgeier argued "that the more important date is the mirror date, 11/9"and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Confronted with a world devoid of direct competitors, the United States struggled to define its foreign policy in the face of such an amorphous international order.