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Special Seminar Series
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Seminars IndexOctober 29, 2009
Obama and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Interim Report
Shai Feldman, Judith and Sidney Swartz Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University;
Khalil Shikaki, Senior Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
September 15, 2009
50 Years as Allies: The Role of U.S. Forces in Japan
Colonel Patrick T. Stackpole, U.S. Army Chief of Staff for U.S. Forces Japan
April 6, 2009
USMC Perspectives on Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom
LTGen Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations, U.S. Marine Corp.
February 26, 2009
Overview of the Army's Maneuver Support Center
MG Gregg Martin, Commanding General, United States Army Maneuver Support Center
Army's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) defense capabilities
Lieutenant Colonel James Bonner
February 4, 2009
Israel, Hamas and the Gaza Conflict: A Roundtable
Barry Posen, Director, MIT Security Studies Program; Admiral William J. Fallon, Former Commander of US Central Command; Jeremy Pressman, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UConn
(co-sponsored by MISTI Israel)
January 15, 2009
Key Issues in the Department of Defense for the Obama Administration
Cindy Williams, Owen Cote, Harvey Sapolsky, and Admiral William J. Fallon
November 29, 2007
Stability Operations in Iraq
Col. Patrick T. Stackpole, USA, Commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division ; CSM Frank Leota, USA, 3d IBCT
May 5, 2006
Speed Kills? Reassessing the Role of Speed, Precision and Situation Awareness in the Fall of Saddam
Stephen J. Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
May 4, 2006
Strategic Information Operations: Listening and Talking to the Middle East
Dr. Vincent Vitto, President and CEO
Draper Laboratory
May 2, 2006
Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S.: the Road Ahead
Shai Feldman, Director
Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis Universitiy
March 16, 2006
Kazakhstan's Security and Foreign Policy
Fulbright Scholar Didar Kassymova
Senior Lecturer, Suleiman Demiral University, Kazakhstan
**co-sponsored by Women in International Security (WIIS)**
February 27, 2006
South Korean Foreign Affairs
Mr. Yoon
Former South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs
February 27, 2006
The Role of US Northern Command in Defense of the Homeland
Col. Joseph A. Bassani, USA
Chief, Plans Division, NORTHCOM
November 15, 2005
The Militarization of Space
Lt. Gen. Daniel Leaf
Deputy Commander, United States Pacific Command
September 30, 2005
An Introduction to China’s People’s Liberation Army [aka
PLA Analysis 101]
Kenneth Allen, Senior Analyst
CNA Corporation’s China Studies Center
September 12, 2005
Opportunities and Obstacles to the Study of Terrorism
Juan Cole
Professor of History, University of Michigan
March 10, 2005
Address to the Military Fellows and Students
Kenneth O. Preston, Sergeant Major of the Army
March 3, 2005
Boots on the Ground: Japan in Iraq
Dennis Yasumoto, Professor and Director
East Asian Studies Program, Smith College
December 10, 2004
The Role of Women in the Israeli Defense Forces
Naomi Chazan, Professor and Visiting Fellow
Center for International Studies, MIT
October 22, 2004
Command in Air War: Centralized vs. Decentralized Control in the Combat Air
Operations System
Lt. Col. Michael W. Kometer, USAF
AFIT/MIT Liaison Officer, and Engineering Systems Ph.D candidate
October 18,
2004
Military Innovation
George "Chip" Pickett
Vice President, Marketing and Business Planning,
Electronics and Systems Sector of Northrop Grumman
October 15, 2004
"Columbia Accident Lessons Affirmed"
Brigadier General Duane W. Deal, USAF
Commander, 21st Space Wing, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
September 9, 2003
Financing the New Security Agenda: NATO's Budgets and Capabilities
Adrian Kendry
Senior Defence Economist, NATO
July 1, 2003
Problems in Estimating Biowarfare/Bioterrorism Capabilities and Threats
Sanford Weiner, Research Affiliate
MIT Security Studies Program
May 15, 2003
The Humanitarian Situation in Iraq
Raymond Offenheiser
President, Oxfam America
February 10, 2003
Iraq, North Korea and U.S.-China Security Relations
Shen Dingli, Professor
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
January 13, 2003
Middle East Regional Security Assessment: A Jordanian Perspective
Dr. Abdullah Toukan, Former Science Advisor to King Hussein of Jordan
October
25, 2002
Assessing China’s Ambitions in East Asia
Paul Heer
Senior China Analyst, CIA
April 1, 2002
International Security and Terrorism
Nazli Choucri, Professor
MIT Political Science Department
April 1, 2002
Basic Marine Air-Ground Task Force Doctrinal Organization
Col. David Mollahan, USMC
Fellow, MIT Security Studies Program
October 22, 2001
Kosovo: Past, Present and Future
Roger Petersen, Associate Professor
MIT Political Science Department
