The 2008 Russia-Georgia War: An MWI Contemporary Battlefield Assessment
During the summer of 2017, a group of USMA cadets and faculty traveled to the Republic of Georgia to study that country's 2008 war with Russia. Over nearly two weeks, […]
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“Legion of Brothers” – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Arnold AuditoriumLegion of Brothers is a 2017 documentary that tells the story of two Special Forces detachments that were among the first US forces sent to Afghanistan after 9/11. ODA 595, […]
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The North Korea Problem – Dr. Victor Cha
Washington Hall 5006In this MWI Speaker Series event, Dr. Victor Cha will discuss the security challenges the United States and its regional allies face on the Korean peninsula. Dr. Cha is director of Asian Studies and holds the D.S. Song Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2009, he […]
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Is War with China Inevitable? – Dr. Graham Allison
Robinson AuditoriumDr. Graham Allison is the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? and is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. In this MWI Speaker Series event he will address a critical question: As China's rise challenges the United States in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, can […]
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Who are the American Foreign Fighters Combating ISIS? – Dr. Joseph Young and Dr. Ben Connable
Washington Hall 5006Why do some people go abroad to engage in other people’s wars? Some studies attempt to discern why individuals choose to fight in distant lands or seek to count how many do so. The term "foreign fighter" has been used nearly exclusively in recent research to describe transnational fighters who join with Islamist organizations, or […]