The Hertog Foundation is going to have an 'Advanced Institute' called The War in Iraq: A Study in Decision-Making.
These Advanced Institutes are described as:
The Hertog Advanced Institutes offer promising individuals an opportunity to engage in the serious discussion of a topic in public policy or political theory with some of the world's leading thinkers and practitioners.
The War in Iraq: A Study in Decision-Making Advanced Institute is going to be led by Paul Wolfowitz and Lewis Libby, both supposedly are
world's leading thinkers and practitioners.
This weeklong advanced institute examines some key strategic decisions made at critical phases of that long confrontation. It will briefly review the first war and its ending, but the course will focus most heavily on the second war, its justification, pre-invasion planning, conduct, and post-invasion phase. It will be led by Paul D. Wolfowitz, who served during the Persian Gulf War as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and as Deputy Secretary of Defense during the first years of the Iraq War, and by Lewis Libby, who served during the first war as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and during the Iraq War as Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney.
If you want to learn things like:
Both times America went to war with Congressional authorization, at the head of an international coalition, and in support of U.N. Resolutions.
and
The 1990–1 Persian Gulf War ended quickly with minimal U.S. casualties, but left a brutal dictator in place and American interests at risk.
and
The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 quickly removed the regime that had repeatedly defied America and gave Iraqis a chance to devise their own future.
be sure to apply for the institute soon. (/snark)
http://hertogfoundation.org/...