Susie P. Gonzalez

210-999-8406

susie.gonzalez@trinity.edu

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SCHOLAR TO DISCUSS WAR STRATEGIES

Oct. 8, 2001 - A professor from the Air War College at Maxwell AFB will speak on  "Historical Analogies and War" at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, in Chapman Auditorium at Trinity University. The lecture by Jeffrey Record is free and open to the public. "Historian Jeffrey Record offers a timely - and provocative - reflection on the use and misuse of historical analogies during foreign policy crises," says Mary Ann Tétreault, the Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs in Trinity's department of political science. She is one of five sponsors of the lecture. Other co-sponsors are the departments of political science, communication, and history, and the office of international programs. Dr. Record is a professor in the department of strategy and international security at the college run by the U.S. Air Force in Montgomery, Ala. He is the author of four books and a dozen analytical papers about military strategy and reform. In his work, he also has taken critical views of the Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars and has served in key advisory roles during the Vietnam War and at the Brookings Institution, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, the Hudson Institute, and the BDM International Corp. Professor Tétreault said she is using one of Dr. Record's books, The Wrong War: Why We Lost in Vietnam, as one of her course textbooks this semester. Copies of that book, along with his others, will be available for sale during the lecture at Trinity. Dr. Record received a Ph.D. in international relations from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also has extensive Capitol Hill experience by serving as a legislative assistant for national security affairs to former Senators Sam Nunn and Lloyd M. Bentsen and later as a staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In addition, Dr. Record has been a military commentator for the Baltimore Sun and NBC News and has been a consultant with Rockwell Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. Dr. Record will answer questions after his remarks. For more information about the lecture, contact Professor Tétreault at (210) 999-8318.

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