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MWI Speaker Series – Dr. Mara Karlin: “Building Militaries in Fragile States”
Dr.Karlin is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She is Associate Professor of the Practice of Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she also serves as acting director of the school’s Strategic Studies Program and as executive director of The Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. Dr. Karlin has served in national security roles for five US secretaries of…
Find out more »MWI Speaker Series – Dr. Ziya Meral: “How Violence Shapes Religion”
Dr. Ziya Meral is a British and Turkish researcher. He specializes in politics and foreign policies of Turkey and the Middle East, thematic issues surrounding interaction of religion with global affairs, and British defense and security. He is a Senior Resident Fellow at the UK Army's new Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research—a civilian and military think tank providing independent analysis and research on defense and security based at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is also the Director…
Find out more »MWI War Council – The Path Forward in Syria
The decision to pull US forces out of Syria has reinvigorated debate over the wider US role in the region, and how Syria fits into our larger strategy to combat terrorism, contain Iran, and build democracy. In this MWI War Council, participants will discuss the past, present, and future of the US approach to Syria and its many related challenges. The panel will feature Capt. Darren Hagan from the Combating Terrorism Center, Lt. Col. Nathaniel Davis from the Defense and…
Find out more »The Wedemeyer Strategic Lecture Series: Gen. (ret) Stanley McChrystal
Gen. (ret) Stanley McChrystal served thirty-four years as an infantry and special forces officer. He commanded the International Security Assistance Force and US Forces-Afghanistan, served as the director of the Joint Staff, and as the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command. The Wedemeyer Strategic Lecture Series honors the intellectual and strategic legacy of Gen. Albert Wedemeyer (USMA ’19), one of America’s most significant and under-recognized military strategists, by bringing to West Point subject matter experts on the role of…
Find out more »MWI Speaker Series – Maj. Clodia O’Neill: Responding to the Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack
On March 4, 2018, Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the UK's intelligence services, and his daughter Yulia Skripal were poisoned in Salisbury, England, with a deadly nerve agent, according to official UK sources and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Maj. Clodia O’Neill, a chemical officer with the British Army who was involved in the response to the attack, will share her insights in an era where chemical weapons are far from…
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