Coming Soon: Military Power at CUNY
by Genevieve Long
For students and observers of up-close foreign affairs analysis on Tuesday, March 10, the City University of New York (CUNY) will host a free evening event at one of their Great Issues Forums. Entitled, Military Power, the event will feature Alex de Waal, program director of the Social Science Research Council, General Barry McCaffrey, four-star general of the United States Army (retired), and Thomas Ricks, Special Military Correspondent for The Washington Post. Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center will moderate the event.
A couple of questions the forum will pose include: Does military intervention work? What is the role of non-military and multi-national groups in regime change and peace-keeping efforts?
Thomas Ricks’ presence will add an extra note to the event, as he has just published a new book, “The Gamble” about U.S. General David Petraeus and America’s war in Iraq. Ricks is also author of “Fiasco”, a #1 New York Times bestseller about the political dialogue on the war in Iraq.
Ricks is a veteran journalist and his books are based on hours of interviews with military officers and on the ground reporting in Iraq.
Military Power
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
7:00 pm, Proshansky Auditorium
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
New York, NY 10016