March 26, 2008, 6 - 8 pm
McGraw Hill Auditorium
New York City
TOWN HALL on Iraq Endgame - The Future of US Involvement in Iraq
moderator
Dr. Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Advisor to the Center for Defense Information. Prior to joining the Center, he was a Senior Fellow and Director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. From July 1998 to October 2002, he was Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and holder of the Maurice Greenberg Chair. Prior to joining the Council, Mr. Korb served as Director of the Center for Public Policy Education and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, Dean of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and Vice President of Corporate Operations at the Raytheon Company. Mr. Korb Served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the Defense budget. For his service in that position, he was awarded the Department of Defense's medal for Distinguished Public Service. Dr. Korb served on active duty for four years as a Naval Flight Officer, and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Captain.
panelist
Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar in defense and security policy studies at AEI. He is the author of Choosing Victory: A Plan for Success in Iraq (phases I and II) and No Middle Way: The Challenge of Exit Strategies from Iraq, reports by the Iraq Planning Group at AEI. His most recent book, Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (Encounter Books), was published in September 2006. Previously an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Mr. Kagan is the author of The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801–1805 (Da Capo, 2006) and coauthor of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). A contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, he has also written numerous articles on defense and foreign policy issues for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Policy Review, Commentary magazine, Parameters, and other periodicals.
panelist
Augustus Richard Norton is a Professor in the Departments of International Relations and Anthropology at BostonUniversity. Prior to joining the BostonUniversity faculty in 1993, he was a professor at West Point, the U.S. Military Academy, where he taught for a dozen years. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Colonel after 27 years of service, including more than three years in combat zones. His books include Hezbollah: A Short History (Princeton 2007), Civil Society in the Middle East (E. J. Brill, 1995, 1996, 2005), and Amal and the Shi’a (University of Texas, 1987). His “The Shiite ‘Threat’ Revisited” is in Current History, December 2007. His other recent publications include “Stalled Reform: The Case of Egypt” with Hala Mustafa, in Current History, January 2007; “The U.S. in the Middle East,” with Farhad Kazemi, for the Foreign Policy Association, 2007; and “Pity the Region” in The Nation (February 2006). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he was an advisor to the Iraq Study Group ("Baker-Hamilton Commission") in 2006. He frequently conducts research in the Middle East, and he spent more than half of the past eighteen months in the region. Dr. Norton received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is presently on-leave from BostonUniversity to write a book about the Sunni-Shi’i rift.