Participating in the CHOD Senior Enlisted Leader program were 15 DKI APCSS alumni. Pictured left to right: WO1 Stephen Rupapere, NZL, Deputy CSEL IPC; CSM Baasan Nyamaa, Mongolia, SEAC General Staff Mongolia Armed Forces; FCMS Feliciano Lazo, Philippines, SEAC; WO1 Rozain bin Haji Pungut, Brunei, Sergeant Major of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces; CWO Chua Hock Guan, Singapore, SEAC; WO1 Sarah Cox, UK, SEAC; SGM (Ret) Anthony Spadaro, former USINDOPACOM SEL; SgtMaj Eric Cook, U.S., CSEL IPC; SEAC David Isom, U.S.; DKI APCSS Director Suzanne Vares-Lum; CWO Robert McCann, Canada, SEAC; WO1 Wiremu Moffitt, NZL, SEAC; SWO Samiuela Lolomanaia, Tonga, SEAC; TSE Segundo Caminada Medina, Peru, SEL Joint Command of the Armed Forces; WO1 Shahamrie Bin Abdullah, Sergeant Major of the Royal Malaysian Armed Forces; and WO1 Kenneth George Robertson, Australia, SEAC.
DKI APCSS Director Suzanne Vares-Lum participates in a discussion at the Chiefs of Defense Meeting.
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Thai Alumni Reunion group photo
Director Suzanne Vares-Lum with Gen. Songwit Noonpackdee, Chief of Defence Forces of the Royal Thai Armed Forces
Joint United States Military Advisory Group, Thailand
U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Robert F. Godec
Col Erickson and Dr. Freeman, Director, NCDMPH, USU
Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Mayor of Honolulu
Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Mayor of Honolulu
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DKI APCSS Director Suzanne P. Vares-Lum was honored to serve as a panel moderator at the USINDOPACOM Chiefs of Defense (CHODs) meeting in Thailand. Attending the event were six Chiefs of Defense who are DKI APCSS alumni. Pictured left to right: Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Hilmy, Chief of Defence Force, Maldives; Gen. Romeo S. Brawner Jr., Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines; DKI APCSS Director Suzanne P. Vares-Lum; Gen. Songwit Noonpakdee, Commander, Royal Thai Armed Forces; Air Marshal Tony Davies, Chief of Defence Force, New Zealand; and Brigadier Lord Fielakepa, Chief of His Majesty’s Armed Forces, Tonga.
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Left to right: Maj. Gen. Nirut Duanpanya, director of the Strategic Studies Center (SSC); Gen. (Ret.) Nothapol Boonngam; Director Suzanne Vares-Lum; Gen. Pongtep Gaewchaiyo, commanding general of the National Defense Studies Institute (NDSI)
First Plenary Session “Geopolitical Confrontation and Conflict: Implications for Security Strategies” with Dr. Joseph Liow Chin Yong (Tan Kah Kee Chair in Comparative and International Politics, Senior Research Advisor to S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore); General Jennie Carignan (Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces, Canada); Major General (Ret.) Suzanne Puanani Vares-Lum (Director of Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS), USA); General Songwit Noonpakdee (Chief of Defence Forces, Royal Thai Armed Forces, Thailand); and moderator Professor Dr. Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Senior Fellow at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Security and International Studies, Thailand)
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