"How Wars End: Why We Always Fight the Last Battle"

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Speakers

Gideon Rose

Editor and Peter G. Peterson Chair, "Foreign Affairs"

Introductory Speakers

James Dobbins

Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, National Security Research Division, RAND Corporation

Gideon Rose discusses his examination of the choices confronting presidents and their advisers during the final stages of each major conflict from World War I through Iraq.

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