The Contemporary History Institute hosts Dr. Peter Mansoor discussing “Israel's 9/11: What can Israel learn from the War on Terror?" on Jan. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Bentley Hall 136.

Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History and a frequent media commentator on national security affairs. He moved into his position at Ohio State in 2008 after a 26-year career in the U.S. Army. A 1982 distinguished graduate of the United States Military Academy, Mansoor served in an array of command and staff positions in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East during his military career. This included command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division from 2003 to 2005, including 13 months in combat in Iraq from July 2003 to July 2004 - service for which his brigade was awarded a President Unit Citation for collective valor in combat. He also served from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor of military history at West Point.

After relinquishing command, Mansoor resided at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York as a senior military fellow and then served as the founding director of the U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he helped to edit the counterinsurgency field manual, which was used to reshape the conduct of the Iraq War. In 2006 he also served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff Council of Colonels that reexamined the strategy for the war in Iraq.

Mansoor is the author of several books, including The GI Offensive in Europe: The Triumph of American Infantry Divisions, 1941-1945 and Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War.  With Williamson Murray he has also co-edited three books : Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present ; Grand Strategy and Military Alliances ; and The Culture of Military Organizations . He is currently working on a monograph on the liberation of the Philippines during World War II.

This event is free and open to the public.