Wednesday Seminars, Spring 2007
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| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| February 14 | EFRAIM INBAR Director, Begin-Sadat (BESA) Center for Strategic Studies |
Misconceptions in Israel 's Strategic Thinking: The Conduct of the 2006 Lebanese War |
| February 21 | MGen HEJLIK Commanding General, USMC Special Operations |
U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command Brief |
| February 28 | CAROL SAIVETZ Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, MIT |
Russian Energy Policies |
| March 7 | MARC LYNCH Associate Professor of Political Science, Williams College |
Islamist Wars of Ideas |
| March 14 | ROBERT TOMES Chief of Analysis and Production Directorate Initiatives, National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency |
Managing Complexity in Defense Acquistion: Rethinking GEOINT, Precision Strike, and the New American Way of War |
| March 21 | MIA BLOOM Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, Athens |
The Radicalization of Muslims in Europe |
| April 4 | DWIGHT WILLIAMS Chief Engineer and Principal Nuclear Physicist, U.S. Department of Defense |
Detecting Nuclear and Radiological Weapons |
| April 11 | TIMOTHY CRAWFORD Assistant Professor, Political Science Dept., Boston College |
Wedge Strategies in Balance of Power Politics |
| April 18 | PETER LIBERMAN Associate Professor, Political Science Dept., Queens College, CUNY |
Why the Empire Struck Back: Just Deserts and the Iraq War |
| April 25 | ERIC LABS Analyst, Congressional Budget Office |
Options for the Navy's Future Fleet |
| May 2 | WILLIAM M. ARKIN Washington Post |
Understanding the Israel-Hizballah War of 2006 and the Future "War Against Terrorism" |
| May 9 | JOHN PRADOS National Security Archives |
Covert Operations and United States Foreign Policy |
| May 16 | WILL MCCANTS Combating Terrorism Center, West Point |
“For the Word of God to Be Supreme”: Al-Qa`ida Strategic Thinking and Its Implications for U.S. Policy |