Speaker | Title |
Liam Collins | Founding Director, Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy at West Point |
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Assessing US Military Strategy in Iraq | |
Conrad Crane, PhD (COL, USA, Ret) | Senior Research Historian, U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute |
Gian Gentile, PhD (COL, USA, Ret) | Associate Director and Senior Historian, RAND Arroyo Center |
David Perkins (GEN, USA, Ret) | 15th Commander of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) |
Rick Brennan, PhD (COL, USA, Ret) | Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation and lead strategy and policy subject matter expert, Iraq Defense Governance Management Team (DGMT) |
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The U.S. Military Experience in Iraq | |
Heather Stur, Ph.D. | Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Alumni Professor of the Humanities, University of Southern Mississippi |
Kara Dixon Vuic, PhD | LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in 20th-Century America, Texas Christian University |
Kyle Longley, PhD | Director of the War, Diplomacy, and Society Program & Henry Salvatori Professor of American Values and Traditions, Chapman University |
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Veteran Perspectives | |
Lee Cronagle | OH National Guard |
Carey Eichorst (LTC, USAF, Ret.) | USAF Retired |
CSM Joshua King | Command Sgt. Major, 5th Special Forces Group, US Army |
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Saturday Keynote | |
Catherine Lutz, PhD | Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of International Studies and Co-founder and Co-Director of the Costs of War Project, Brown University |
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The War’s Impact on Iraq | |
Kalai Rubaii, PhD | Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University |
Zainab Saleh, PhD | Associate Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College |
Bridget L. Guarasci, PhD | Associate Professor of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College |
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Veterans in American Culture | |
Kenneth T. MacLeish, PhD | Associate Professor of Medicine, Health & Society and Anthropology, Vanderbilt University |
COL Brian O’Leary, PhD, USA | Command Psychologist, 5th Special Forces Group |
Tyler Merritt (CPT, USA, Ret) | Founder, Nine Line Foundation |
Haley Uthlaut (CPT, USA, Ret) | Board Member, Strong Gray Line and Gold Star Spouse |
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Lessons and Legacies | |
Gregory Daddis, PhD (COL, USA, Ret) | Director of the Center for War and Society and the USS Midway Chair in Modern U.S. Military History |
Mike Nelson (LTC, USA, Ret) | Director of Operations, Institute for the Study of War |
COL Scott Mueller (USA) | Director, US Army Center For Lessons Learned, Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, KS |