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Today, ASP hosted a lively discussion on the lessons and legacies of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Iraq – based on issues contained in a recently published book.

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U.S. Policy in Iraq & Afghanistan:

Lessons & Legacies

 Moderators: Seyom Brown and Robert H. Scales

Co-Editors of the eponymous book

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Panel Participants & Chapter Authors:

Stephen Biddle is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A member of the Defense Policy Board, he has served on strategic and military assessment teams for the U.S. Commands in Iraq and Afghanistan.  His book Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle has won several major prizes.

Dan Caldwell is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pepperdine University. He  has served on the faculties of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, Brown, UCLA and Harvard. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Vortex of Conflict: U.S Policy Toward Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

Seyom Brown, currently on research leave, is the Tower Chair in International Politics & National Security at Southern Methodist University, and senior advisor to the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brown has held senior research and analysis positions at several policy think tanks. The most recent of his twelve books are Higher Realism: A New Foreign Policy for the United States and The Illusion of Control: Force and Foreign Policy in the 21^st Century.

Vanda Felbab-Brown is Fellow in Foreign Policy and the 21^st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. Her research focuses on the interactions among illicit economies, criminal organizations, and armed conflict.  She is the author of Shooting Up: Counterinsurgency and the War on Drugs and numerous policy monographs.

John Nagl, former president of the Center for a New American Security, is a research fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy. A veteran of both Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom, Nagl, along with Gen. David Petraeus and others, was a principal on the writing team for the 2006 U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual.

Michael O’Hanlon is director of research and senior fellow in foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. A frequent media and op-ed commentator on national security issues, he is the author of Defense Strategy for the Post-Saddam Era and The Wounded Giant.

Linda Robinson is a scholarly journalist and consultant on political conflict, insurgency and counterinsurgency, and has reported extensively from the field in Iraq and Afghanistan. An adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, she is author of Tell Me How This Ends: General Petraeus and the Search for a Way out of Iraq. She is writing a book on Afghanistan that will be published in 2013.

MG Robert H. Scales (ret), is President of Colgen, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in military affairs & strategy.  Scales is a former Commandant for the U.S. Army War College and held command & staff positions inn the U.S., Germany, Korea and VietNam.  He is the author of numerous books on contemporary and future warfare, including Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America’s Military.

Marvin Weinbaum is a scholar in residence at the Middle East Institute. An expert on Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, and Turkey, he was an analyst in the U.S. Dept of State’s Bureau of Intelligence & Research.

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