An MWI War Council Panel – Bosnia: History, Genocide, Survival, and Justice
On March 7th, the Modern War Institute and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies hosted an expert panel on the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990’s.
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Author: MWI Staff
Can Silicon Valley Push the Pentagon to Innovate?
The Modern War Institute (MWI) and Center for the Study of Civil-Military Operations (CSCMO) hosted a panel on Thursday, January 21, to discuss recent moves by the Pentagon and the secretary of defense, Ashton Carter, to reach out to Silicon Valley to find ways to spur greater military innovation.
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Eric Maddox Discusses the Hunt for Saddam
Eric Maddox spoke to about 700 cadets and relayed his experience as an Army interrogator in Iraq. He carried out countless interrogations over a span of three months in 2003 when Saddam was on the run and the insurgency was in its infancy.
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Vassar’s Mampilly Discusses Rebel Governance and Countering ISIS
On Monday, November 16, Zachariah Mampilly, author of the book, Rebel Rulers, and professor at Vassar College, addressed a roomful of cadets as part of a MWI panel cosponsored with West Point’s Irregular Warfare Group.
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Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon Says Future Wars Will Be ‘Messy’
Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, spoke to cadets about the future scenarios they are likely to face in battle. He dismissed notions that future wars will be mostly conventional and said that “messy” stability operations are not going away anytime soon.
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