IUSAFS Conference 2009

Continuing a tradition of distinguished speakers at IUS events, Dr. John A. Nagl, president of the Center for a New American Security, will be the keynote speaker at the IUS Conference Banquet on Friday October 23, 2009. Dr. Nagl is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. He was a Distinguished Graduate of the United States Military Academy Class of 1988 and served as an armor officer in the U.S. Army for 20 years, retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He led a tank platoon in Operation Desert Storm and served as the operations officer of a tank battalion task force in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He earned his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He served as a Military Assistant to two Deputy Secretaries of Defense. Dr. Nagl is the author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam.