BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:93867d1cf3c0cfd40aaf4d95d64b6b7a1672 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:A Management and Strategic Assessment of Afghanistan with Dr. Paul Bracken DESCRIPTION:
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Yale Club of DC Event
A Management and Strategic Assessment of Afghanistan with Dr. Paul Bracken
Tuesday, Sep tember 14, 2021
This meeting will be conducted on Zoom. Instructions wil l be provided upon registration | |||||
This talk will look at the Afghan War an d its end from a managerial perspective. The war’s insights for US crisis m anagement, and the effect of the US departure on the atomic bomb programs o f Pakistan, Israel, and Iran will get special focus. The talk concludes by arguing that if US actions in Afghanistan are indicative of our competence in handling future intense crises, then the world is in serious danger. A q uestion and answer session will follow. Paul Bracken is Professor Emeritus of Management and Political Science at Yale University. He is a leading expert on the st rategic application of technology in business and defense, and is a consult ant to many parts of the US defense and intelligence community. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he served on the Chief of Naval Operatio ns Executive Panel for many years. His is author of The Second Nuclear Age, Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics (Henry Holt); and < em>The Hunt for Mobile Missiles: Nuclear Weapons, AI, and the New Arms Race (Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2020). Bracken grew up in Philade lphia and is an avid golfer and ham radio operator. 1)
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