Smullen Notes on Strategy

Posted on Wednesday January 11 2012

Bill Smullen has been kind enough to send along a brief note about the content of his talk on March 12.

Review of Peter van Buren’s New Book

Posted on Saturday December 10 2011

Peter Van Buren’s new book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People was reviewed by The Seattle Post Intelligencer in September.  The reviewer likens We Meant Well to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, only it’s not fiction.

Author Peter Van Buren, a career State Department Foreign Service Officer (FSO), could have been Heller’s Yossarian, a traveller adrift in a sea of official insanity . . .

Click here to read the full review.

Membership Application

Posted on Friday January 9 2009

A membership application is now online as a PDF document. You may download it, print it, and mail it to the address on the form.

Upcoming Speakers

  • Monday, February 6, 2012 at Noon (Point Lookout)
    Peter van Buren
    Topic: Lessons From the "Reconstruction" of Iraq
  • Monday, March 12 (Point Lookout)
    Colonel Frederick W. Smullen
    Topic: Thinking Strategically about U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Thursday, April 19 at Noon (Point Lookout)
    Saad Ibrahim
    Topic: Egypt
  • Monday, June 11 at Noon (Point Lookout)
    James P. Farwell
    Topic: The Pakistan Cauldron

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Announcements

Smullen Notes on Strategy

Posted on Wednesday January 11

Bill Smullen has been kind enough to send along a brief note about the content of his talk on March 12.

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Review of Peter van Buren’s New Book

Posted on Saturday December 10

Peter Van Buren’s new book, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People was reviewed by The Seattle Post Intelligencer in September.  The reviewer likens We Meant Well to Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, only it’s not fiction.
Author Peter Van Buren, a career State Department Foreign Service Officer (FSO), could [...]

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Membership Application

Posted on Friday January 9

A membership application is now online as a PDF.

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