BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures & Presentations DESCRIPTION:The Contemporary History Institute hosts Dr. Peter Mansoor disc ussing “Israel's 9/11: What can Israel learn from the War on Terror?" on Ja n. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Bentley Hall 136.\n\nMansoor\, Colonel\, U.S. Army (R etired)\, is the General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair of Military History and a frequent media commentator on national security affairs. He moved into h is 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\, Manso or served in an array of command and staff positions in the United States\, Europe\, and the Middle East during his military career. This included com mand of the 1st Brigade\, 1st Armored Division from 2003 to 2005\, includin g 13 months in combat in Iraq from July 2003 to July 2004 - service for whi ch his brigade was awarded a President Unit Citation for collective valor i n combat. He also served from 1993 to 1995 as an assistant professor of mil itary history at West Point.\n\nAfter relinquishing command\, Mansoor resid ed at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York as a senior military fel low 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 con duct of the Iraq War. In 2006 he also served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff C ouncil of Colonels that reexamined the strategy for the war in Iraq. \n\nMansoor is the author of several books\, including Th e 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: Hy brid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Pres ent\; Grand Strategy and Military Alliances\; and The Culture of Military O rganizations. He is currently working on a monograph on the liberation of t he Philippines during World War II.\n\nThis event is free and open to the p ublic. DTEND:20240125T230000Z DTSTAMP:20241122T190826Z DTSTART:20240125T213000Z GEO:39.326372;-82.102202 LOCATION:Bentley Hall\, 136 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Contemporary History Institute | Dr. Peter Mansoor UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_45065785163979 URL:https://calendar.ohio.edu/event/contemporary_history_institute_dr_peter _mansoor END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR