Dallas area people: Wes speaking at SMU tomorrow
Submitted by Susan ClevelandOH on November 14, 2008 - 7:34am.
The Program on National Security and Defense at SMU’s John G. Tower Center for Political Studies will present its inaugural event – “The Future of Conflict: Military Roles and Missions – on November 13-14 on the SMU campus.
General (ret.) Wesley Clark
Wesley K. Clark
General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, will deliver the keynote address at a luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in the Umphrey Lee Ballroom. Reservations are required, and registration begins at noon, with a $35 per person fee for the address. (SMU students, faculty and staff may attend at no charge with SMU IDs.)
The two-day program also will feature military and business leaders, policymakers, analysts and scholars, who will discuss challenges to national security. At a time when security threats have become extraordinarily complex, those challenges include a growing isolationist mood, declining defense budgets and contending approaches to the use of force.