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Defense Project Series: A Conversation with General David Petraeus

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

Please join the Defense Project for a breakfast seminar with General David H Petraeus on Wednesday, November 21 from 8:30-10:00am in the Malkin Penthouse. 

RSVP required. Please bring your Harvard ID for check-in.

General David Petraeus

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Please join the Defense Project for a breakfast seminar with General David Petraeus. Space is limited so please RSVP below. 

David H. Petraeus is a retired four-star Army general and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. In addition to various business and academic pursuits, he has been a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs since 2013, working with former Center Director Graham Allison and Kennedy School students to explore renewed U.S. and North American competitiveness, strategic leadership, and a variety of international security issues.

Petraeus served as CIA director from September 2011 to November 2012. Prior to that, he spent 37 years in the Army, culminating his career with six consecutive commands as a general officer, five of which were in combat, including roles as commander of U.S. and international military forces in Afghanistan, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), and commanding general of the multi-national force in Iraq during the surge.

 

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