Dr. Richard H. Shultz, Jr. is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University and the Director of the Fletcher School’s International Security Studies Program. At Fletcher, he teaches graduate-level courses in various aspects of international security affairs, internal/transnational conflict, war studies, and intelligence and armed groups. Professor Shultz will discuss how Task Force 714 transformed in the midst of the war in Iraq to dismantle al-Qaeda’s clandestine network despite what organizational experts identify as barriers that…