Bush School and Army War College Conduct National Security Colloquium
The Bush School and the Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) conducted a major research colloquium in Washington, D.C., on April 22 to discuss three policy areas related to national security. The event was held at the Reserve Officers Association headquarters.
Bush School senior lecturer and director of the School’s Public Service Leadership Program, Dr. Joseph Cerami, convened the group of experts from academic, military, governmental, and non-governmental organizations to examine key dimensions for assessing national security reform at the mid-point of the Obama Administration. Attendees included national security experts from the Washington, D.C. area, as well as faculty and students from Texas A&M, the Bush School, and other regional universities.
The Bush School has been engaged in the topics of interagency and national security reform, counterinsurgency and complex operations, and leadership with the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, as well as the Project on National Security Reform (and other universities and D.C. think tanks) for several years.
The keynote speaker for the colloquium was Dr. James Carofano of the Heritage Foundation, a leading expert in defense and homeland security, who directs Heritage’s Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies. Panel chairs included Dr. Joe Cerami of the Bush School, Dr. Robin Dorff of the Strategic Studies Institute, and the Honorable James Locher of the Project on National Security Reform.
Panel topics included assessing national security reform, legislative imperatives, and the way(s) forward.
Colloquium co-sponsors include the Reserve Officers Association (ROA), the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), the Hudson Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the American Security Project (ASP), Creative Associates International, Inc. (CAII), and the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR). A colloquium brief and monograph will be published by the Strategic Studies Institute.
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