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#04-213
Sept. 9, 2004

For more information, contact: Wesley D. Sumner
(229) 931-2038    wdsumner@canes.gsw.edu

Air War College professor discusses the war on terrorism at Sept. 15 GSW Convocation

AMERICUS--Jeffrey Record, Ph.D., will speak during the Georgia Southwestern State University Convocation at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15, in the Jackson Performance Hall. Record is a professor in the Department of Strategy and International Security at the U.S. Air Force's Air War College in Montgomery, Ala. His topic will be "Thinking About the War on Terrorism." 

The event is free and open to the public. 

Record is the author of several books and monographs. He served as assistant province adviser in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War, Rockefeller Younger Scholar on the Brookings Institution's Defense Analysis staff, and senior fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, the Hudson Institute, and the BDM International Corp. He also has extensive Capitol Hill experience, serving as legislative assistant for National Security Affairs to Senators Sam Nunn and Lloyd Bentsen, and later as a professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. Record received his doctorate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 

Record's presentation marks the second in a series of fall convocations designed to bring diverse speakers to the GSW campus.

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