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Foundation Distinguished Fellow</span><strong><span
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</span></em><span
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Liberty Award Recipient</span><strong><span
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Knott Distinguished Visiting Professor of the
Practice University of North Carolina Chapel Hill</span>
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<div align="center"> <span
style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">Adjunct
Professor of National Security Policy Sanford
School of Public Policy Duke University </span>
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<div align="center"> <span
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style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif;">former</span>
</span><span
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of National Intelligence</span> </div>
<div align="center"> <span
style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">former
Commander in Chief US Pacific Command</span> </div>
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Summer Symposium <em>Libertas </em>2025</span></span></p>
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Korean Peninsula Issues and US National
Security </span></span></u></strong></p>
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<div align="center"> <span
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7:00 PM \u2013 8:15 PM EDT Washington DC<br>
July 8 2025 8:00 AM \u2013 9:15 AM KST Seoul JST
Tokyo</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dear Friend: </span><span
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</span> <span
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</span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"> </span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;">We are pleased
to share with you that Dennis Blair will address the
virtual</span><span
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<em>ICAS</em></span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-large;"> Summer
Symposium <em>Libertas </em>2025 with a particular
emphasis on "US National Security and World Affairs"
on July 7, 2025, Washington DC.</span><span
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Dennis Blair is the Knott Distinguished Visiting
Professor of the Practice at the University of
North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is also Adjunct
Professor of National Security Policy at the
Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke
University. </span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span
style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">ADM
Blair chairs the board of SAFE, a non-profit
organization advocating energy and economic
security. In addition, Dennis serves on the
boards of No Labels and the National Committee on
US -China Relations.</span></p>
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style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">From
January 2009 to May 2010, as first Director of
National Intelligence in the Obama administration,
he led the sixteen national intelligence
agencies. Dennis was president and chief
executive officer of the Institute for Defense
Analyses from 2003-06, and Chairman, CEO and
Senior Fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA
from 2014-2017. </span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span
style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Prior
to his retirement in 2002 after a career of 34
years, ADM Blair was the Commander in Chief, US
Pacific Command. In addition to Navy assignments,
Dennis served on the Joint Staff and on the
National Security Staff.</span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span
style="font-size: 16.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">A
graduate of the US Naval Academy, ADM Blair earned
a master\u2019s degree in history and languages from
Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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style="font-size: x-large;">Dennis (</span></span><a
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Blair Bio</font></a>) <span
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style="font-size: x-large;">is Recipient of the</span></span><span
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style="font-size: x-large;"> <em>ICAS </em></span></span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span
style="font-size: x-large;">Annual Liberty Award
</span></span><a
href="https://www.icasinc.org/liberty.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">(<span
style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><em>ICAS </em></span>Liberty
Award</a>) <span
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style="font-size: x-large;">and named </span></span><span
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style="font-size: x-large;"><em>ICAS </em></span></span><span
style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span
style="font-size: x-large;">Liberty Foundation
Distinguished Fellow (</span></span><a
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style="font-size: x-large;">. </span><br>
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