Council Of Foreign Affairs Fellow To Discuss U.S. Strategy In Iraq
WILLIAMSTOWN - Stephen D. Biddle, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and award-winning author of "Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle" will give a talk titled "U.S. Strategy in Iraq: Past Present and Future" at Williams College. His talk is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 6, at 7:30 pm in Griffin Hall, room 3. The talk is free and open to the public.Biddle held the Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI). Before joining the SSI in 2001, he was a member of the political science faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He has held research positions at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, Virginia, Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the Kennedy School of Government's Office of National Security Programs.
Biddle served as U.S. Representative to the NATO Defense Research Group Study on Stable Defense, is presently a member of the Defense Department Senior Advisory Group on Homeland Defense, and is co-director of the Columbia University Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy.
He has presented testimony before congressional committees on issues relating to Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, conventional net assessment, and European arms control.
At the U.S. Army War College, his research was awarded the Barchi, Rist, and Impact Prizes from the Military Operations Research Society, and he won the Army Superior Civilian Service Medal in 2003.
His published scholarly articles include "The 2006 Lebanon Campaign and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy" (2008), "American Grand Strategy After 9/11: An Assessment" and "Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy" (2002).
His work has been awarded the Arthur Ross Book Award Silver Medal, Council on Foreign Relations (2005); Huntington Prize, Harvard University (2005); Koopman Prize, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (2005) and the Madigan Award, Army War College Foundation (2005).
He received his Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University.
The evening's event is sponsored by the Stanley Kaplan Program in American Foreign Policy.
