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Congratulations to Rear Admiral (Ret) Peter Gumataotaowho has just begun his work as the new DKI APCSSDirector. Gumataotao replaces who served as the interimdirector of DKI APCSS since November 2016.Mr. Hartsell looks forward to assuming new leadershipopportunities in both the health industry and as aU. S. Marine Corps reserve general officer.

John A. GasnerChief,Alumni Division

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January 2018

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Colonel James Minnichprovided the latest Podcaston North Korea and apolicy of changed regime.Please review his lectureat this link.https://globalnetplatform.org/apcss/dki-apcss-podcasts/north-korea-solution-policy-of-changed-regime-colonel-james-minnich

Minnich

A Message from Director GumataotaoI am deeply honored to have this unique opportunity to serve as your new DKIAPCSS director. I am equally humbled to be working amongst a very talented,motivated, and exceptional group of professionals both in the Center andthroughout the region via our Alumni Associations. To say I’m very excited isan understatement. You have my commitment to ensure we continue down thispath of fostering transparency, inclusiveness and respect in all we do. I lookforward to working with all of you to strengthen our ohana and to furtheradvance peace and security. Mahalo nui loa for your kokua and warm aloha.

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Colonel Todd Emmons (U.S.),ASC14-1, completed his FellowsProject by improving regional securitycooperation through multilateral, large-force, flying, training exercises.

Imelda Sari (Indonesia) ASC15-1,completed her Fellows Project bywriting a decision paper on howIndonesia should face the increasingeconomic competition from ASEAN.

Lieutenant Colonel Chang Jung Lee(Korea), CCM15-1, completed hisFellows Project by increasing regionaldisaster resilience.

Richard Wells (New Zealand), ASC16-1, completed his Fellows Project byusing open source geospatial data toimprove collaboration within the NewZealand Defense Force.

Chiranjibi Kunwar (Nepal) CSRT16-1,completed his Fellows Project byestablishing a working group to addressdrug trafficking issues; and he arrangeda program to educate and traingovernment officials about this issue.

Mr. Bakhtiar Muhammad (Pakistan),CSRT16-1, completed his FellowsProject by refining the job descriptionsof officers in his organization.

Lieutenant Colonel Nedal AhmadJamahned (Jordan), CCM17-1,completed his Fellows Project bycreating a Joint Service StandardOperating Procedure for counteringterrorism. He also tested his SOP in a

national-level exercise.

Alumni Awards and Recognition:

Jamahned

Emmons

Sari

Lee

Wells

Kunwar

Muhammad

Major General A.N.M. Muniruzzaman(Bangladesh), SEC06-2, and theBangladesh Institute of Peace andSecurity Studies hosted two conferencesin January: “Cyber Radicalization:Challenges and the Way Forward” and

“Countering Violent Extremism (CVE): BuildingResilience andCapacity.” Formore information,please checkwww.bipss.org.bd

Major GeneralPurna Silawal(Nepal), EC07-1,earned a Doctor ofPhilosophy

degree in Strategic Studies from Tribhuvan University.His thesis is entitled “National Security of Nepal: AStudy from Politico-Military Perspectives.”

Attorney Julius Magno (Philippines),CCM11-1, completed his third PhD onPeace and Security with a focus oninternational law andmaritime.

Colonel Mohammad Amin(Afghanistan), TSC12-2 andASC13-1, participated in the secondinternational coordination meetingfor front-line officers in theInternational Atomic EnergyAgency.

News Stories from Alumni:

Muniruzzaman

Silawal

Magno

Amin

Sri Lankan alumni ofCCM14-1, SarangaVithanage, and ArunaJayarathne, met with theirclassmate, Mr. IntisarAhmad (Pakistan), during aPartners in ProgressExhibition.

Commissioner Faustino da Costa (Timor Leste),TSC15-1,washonored bythePresidentof TimorLeste withthe firstclassmedal,The Order of Timor Leste.

News Stories from Alumni:

da Costa

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L-R Aruna, Intisar, Saranga

Promotions and Position Changes:

Ambassador Teo Magdalene (Brunei),EC01-1, completed her assignment inChina and is returning to Brunei.

Tenzin Wangchuk (Bhutan), EC05-3,was promoted as Director of theDepartment of Multilateral Affairs inthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Major General Chang Kyeong Seok(Korea), EC06-2, retired from theArmy. He is now working as aProfessor at Sukmyung University inSeoul.

David DeLeo (U.S.), APOC07-1 andCA12-4, transferred to the staff of JointInteragency Task Force – West onCamp Smith, Hawaii.

Hsien-Jiu Chang (Taiwan),CSRT09-1, was promoted to rearadmiral and appointed Director,Operations Readiness Division.

Chrystal Glinton (Bahamas),CCM10-1, was promoted as DeputyPermanent Secretary in the NationalEmergency Management Agency.

John Broadmeadow (U.S.),SEAPOC10-1, was promoted tolieutenant general and appointedDeputy Commander U.S.Transportation Command.

Ambassador Teddy Taylor (U.S.),TSC10-2, retired from governmentservice.

Md Shariful Islam (Bangldesh),CCM11-1, was promoted to groupcaptain and deployed to the UnitedNations Organization StabilizationMission in Democratic Congo asContingent Commander of

Bangladesh Aviation Transport Unit.

Chang

Magdalene

Wangchuk

Seok

DeLeo

Glinton

Broadmeadow

Taylor

Islam

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Promotions and Position Changes:

M.J. Akbar (India), CA11-5, is theMinister of State for External Affairs.

Bruce Fink (U.S.), CCM11-1 andCA12-4, is the Engineer Research &Development Center Liaison to U.S.Pacific Command.

Daniel Grant (U.S.), APOC13-3, waspromoted to captain and assigned to theNaval Postgraduate School in Monterey,California.

Major Jonathan Brown (U.S.) CA14-1,was reassigned to Commander TaskForce-76 in Okinawa, Japan.

Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Burgess(U.S.), ASC14-3, has been appointedChief, Operating Location Everett,Washington for the KC-46 program.

Prasath Chhorn (Cambodia),ASC15-2, was promoted tobrigadier general, and he is theActing Director of PortIntelligence Unit.

Colonel Carlos de Lima (Brazil),CSRT16-1, was assigned to Brasilia.

Command Master Chief FrankDominguez (U.S.), APOC16-2,was appointed Force Master Chiefat Marine Forces Pacific.

Phillip Tadena (U.S.), APOC16-3,was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

Gina Jamoralin (Philippines), TSC17-1, was appointed Consul General in thePhilippine Consulate in Chicago.

Michael McCrabb (U.S.), APOC17-3,was assigned to the Navy InternationalPrograms Office in Washington D.C.

McCrabb

Akbar

Chhorn

Fink

Grant

Brown

Burgess

de Lima

Dominguez

Tadena

Jamoralin

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From Jan 31 – 02 Feb 2018,DKI APCSS hosted the 12th

ASEAN Defense Minister’sMeeting Plus Experts’Working Group onHumanitarian Assistanceand Disaster Relief.Among the more than 50participants, wewelcomed back seven

alumni.

In preparation for an upcomingworkshop on the new U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, Dr. Lori Formantraveled to Vietnam and Japan whereshe worked with U.S.U.S. Embassyofficials on socializing key elements ofthe workshop and providedrequirements to help identify the idealparticipants. She also met with severalDKI APCSS alumni.

DKI APCSS Professor Kerry LynnNankevell authored the followingarticle. “Japanese Maritime Assistance:A Status Quo Plus.”

http://maritimeawarenessproject.org/2018/01/04/japanese-maritime-assistance-a-status-quo-plus/

A new publication as aresult of the workshopon “ASEAN@50Southeast Asia @Risk:what shoudl be done?”was published jointly bythe Walter H.Shorenstein Asia-PacificResearch Center,Freeman Spogli Institutefor International Studies(Stanford University),the Strategic andDefence Studies Centre(Australian National University); the S. RajaratnamSchool of International Studies (NanyangTechnological University); and the Daniel K. InouyeAsia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. It isavailable online at: http://apcss.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ASEAN-@50-FINAL-EPUB-2017.pdf

DKI APCSS News:

Nankivelle

Tat, Cardenas, Steward, Sinthavong

Sitting: Thu Huong Dinh ASC16-2, Lori Forman, Tim Liston, Thu Nguyen CA15-3, standing: L-R Tran Phuoc Anh CA15-3,Dao Quang Le CSRT15-1, Vo Quoc Hung CSRT15-1, Thi Tra Mi Phan ASC16-2)

Hamilton

Diapana

Due to government budget negotiations and shutdown, a number ofchanges have occurred with our course schedule. We canceled theAsia-Pacific Orientation Course previously scheduled in January due tothe government shutdown during that period.

The Comprehensive Crisis Management Course was also delayed oneweek and will begin on Feb 15, 2018.

DKI APCSS Courses:

“China and the Strategic Imperative for the UnitedStates”http://nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=975

“The Strategic Implications of Russia-ChinaRelations”http://nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=977

“The Chines Communist Party’s Use of HomophonousPen Names”http://nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=968

“Can Vietnam’s Military Stand Up to China in theSouth China Sea?”http://nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=976

Terence Roehrig’s Japan, South Korea, and the UnitedStates Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the ColdWar”http://nbr.org/publications/element.aspx?id=978

“Re-examining Critical Links between Taiwan andSoutheast Asia: The New Southbound Policy in theTsai Era”http://nbr.org/research/activity.aspx?id=833

The following links may provide you some usefulinformation: APCSS Public Website

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Upcoming multilateral workshop: “Countering Violent Extremism inSoutheast Asia” We will conduct this workshops in the Philippines inMarch 2018. We plan to have an alumni event while in Manila. Ifyou will be in the Philippines on March 16, and would like toparticipate, please let us know.

We canceled the proposed March workshop in India.

This link provides a draft copy of the DKI APCSS workshops.https://globalnetplatform.org/apcss/workshops-0/fy18-projected-workshops#comment-form

DKI APCSS Workshop Events:

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Rear Admiral Abdul Baten(Bangladesh), EC07-2, visited withDirector ‘Hammer’ Hartsell and DeanCarleton Cramer to discuss opportunitiesfor collaboration. Honorary ConsulGeneral, Jan Rumi, SEAPOC16-1,also attended the meeting.

David Treacher (New Zealand),APOC16-1, and Jacob Hamstra (NewZealand), APOC15-2, visited the Centerto discuss updates on security issueseffecting the region.

6 February ..............New Zealand (Waitangi Day)National Day

21 February ..........................International MotherLanguage Day

23 February ........................... Brunei National Day23 February ...Day of Fatherland Defender - Russia27 February ........................Dominican Republic’s

Independence Day

On behalf of all the APCSS 'Ohana', both here inHawaii and throughout our region, we would like toextend our warmest wishes and congratulations on thisspecial occasion for your country. We hope the futurefinds continued peace and security for all yourfamilies, your country and our shared neighborhood inthe Asia-Pacific region:4 February ........................ Sri Lanka National Day

National Days in February:

Alumni Visitors:

Baten

Treacher, Hamstra