Gen. Ron Clark, commanding general of U.S. Army Pacific, will speak June 27 as part of the Strategic Landpower Dialogue co-hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The event will take place from 11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Eastern June 27 at CSIS headquarters, 1616 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. It also will be livestreamed on the CSIS YouTube channel.

To attend in-person or online, you must register here.

Launched in September 2023, the Strategic Landpower Dialogue is a quarterly on-the-record speaker series on land power security issues. It serves as a unique source of insight into the current thinking of and future challenges facing the U.S. Army and land-based forces.

A 1988 West Point graduate, Clark assumed command of U.S. Army Pacific, the Army’s largest service component command, in November. A veteran of combat operations in Iraq, Clark has served several assignments in the Indo-Pacific, including in the 25th Infantry Division and as its commanding general, and as chief of staff for U.S. Army Pacific and, later, for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. He also commanded U.S. Army Central and was the senior military assistant to the secretary of defense.

During the Strategic Landpower Dialogue, Clark will talk about the role of land power in the Indo-Pacific, the Army’s contributions to joint operations and the service’s posture in the region.

As the Army transforms for the future, land power remains as relevant as ever, Clark said in May during AUSA’s LANPAC Symposium and Exposition in Honolulu.

“Today, as we think about our responsibility to prevail, it’s land power that comes to the fore,” he said in a keynote address. Land power is “relevant to our challenges here in the Indo-Pacific … despite misperceptions that it’s simply an air and maritime theater,” he said.

After more than two decades of counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army today faces a “very different” adversary, Clark said in May. The Army is preparing to deter an adversary that has an anti-access, area denial network designed to fix U.S. air and maritime assets and put them at risk, he said.

America’s adversary has been “repeatedly aggressive, belligerent and coercive,” can mass forces and has developed magazine depth that can support troops at extended ranges and attempt to contest the sovereignty of many of America’s neighbors and allies, Clark said. “These challenges are real,” he said. “They intend to test the joint force … in a way that we haven’t seen before.”

To counter that threat, the U.S. must “prevail through combined, joint, all-domain operations on and from the land,” Clark said. “We must maintain the ability to execute multidomain operations as part of a joint, multinational force to gain positional advantage.”