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Nov. 2, 2005
War College Professor To Examine the U.S. Role in Iraq
SAN ANTONIO - W. Andrew Terrill, research professor in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., will discuss "Where We Are in the War in Iraq" during a visit to Trinity University. He will share his observations at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 in Room 336 of the Cowles Life Science Building on the Trinity campus. The event is free and opened to the public.
A Middle East specialist, Professor Terrill joined the Strategic Studies Institute in October 2001. Before his appointment, he was a Middle East analyst for the International Assessments Division of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
He is a former faculty member at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., and has taught at a variety of other colleges and universities. He is a retired U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel and foreign area officer in the Middle East.
Professor Terrill has published in numerous academic journals on topics such as nuclear proliferation, the Iran-Iraq War, Operation Desert Storm, Middle Eastern chemical weapons, ballistic missile proliferation, terrorism, and commando operations. Since 1994, Professor Dr. Terrill has participated by invitation from the U.S. State Department in negotiations that are part of the Middle East Peace Process.
He holds a B.A. from California State Polytechnic University and an M.A. from the University of California, Riverside, both in Political Science. He also holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif.
His lecture is sponsored by the Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Committee at Trinity, and the departments of political science, sociology and anthropology, and religion and by
Mary Ann Tétreault, distinguished professor of international relations in the political science department at Trinity.
For more information, contact Professor Tétreault at (210) 999-8339 or by e-mail at maryann.tetreault@trinity.edu or her assistant, Ragan Updegraff, at (210) 999-8339 or ragan.updegraff@trinity.edu. Professor Terrill's comments are not for attribution unless he gives specific permission.
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