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The Big Stick: Military Power and American Foreign Policy: A Belfer Center Director's Lunch with Eliot Cohen

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University.

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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Cohen received his BA degree from Harvard University in 1977, and his PhD there in 1982. After teaching at Harvard and at the Naval War College he served on the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, coming to SAIS in 1990. His books include Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime, Military Misfortunes:  The Anatomy of Failure in War (with John Gooch), and Conquered into Liberty: Two Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War. In 1991-93 he directed the US Air Force’s official multi-volume study of the 1991 Gulf War, the Gulf War Air Power Survey. He has served as an officer in the United States Army Reserve, and on a number of government advisory bodies, and is the co-founder of the John Hay Initiative, a volunteer network of foreign policy experts. From 2007 to 2009 he was Counselor of the Department of State, serving as Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s Senior Adviser on a range of issues, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as strategic issues more generally. His most recent book is The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force.

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