The Summit on Entrepreneurship and Expeditionary Economics will engage leading scholars, thinkers, and practitioners of economics, counterinsurgency, and stability operations to present and discuss their thoughts on how to achieve sustainable economic development in post-conflict, post-catastrophe areas.

The Kauffman Foundation and the Command and General Staff College Foundation, Inc. view Expeditionary Economics (EE) as a framework for thinking about how to stimulate economic growth in post-combat zones where the American military is about to perform, is performing, or has concluded a mission. The premise of EE is that long-term success of armed engagements will depend on the performance of the economy once combat subsides and the process of rebuilding begins, and further, that building a capacity to establish entrepreneurial capitalism and economic growth is the best way to achieve our post-conflict, post-catastrophe goals.