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On Grand Strategy: A Conversation with John Lewis Gaddis and Graham Allison

Open to the Public

Harvard’s Applied History Project welcomes Professor John Lewis Gaddis of Yale for a conversation on the lessons of history’s most consequential strategists. Moderated by Professor Graham Allison, Co-Director of the Applied History Project.

Date: Time: - Location: Malkin Penthouse, 4th Floor
After many days of resistance Lt. Gen. Ferdinand Heim, the garrison commander, surrendered to the Canadians on September 22. Some 9000 prisoners were taken. Canadian soldiers watching the last fortress blow up at Cap d’Alprech in France on Sept. 24, 1944, just before Heim surrendered. (AP Photo)

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John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University’s Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History and one of the founders of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, will join Graham Allison, Harvard University’s Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and Co-Director of the Applied History Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, for a discussion of his new book, On Grand Strategy.

A guide to grand strategy as Applied History from Xerxes to FDR, the book allows the reader to become a student in Professor Gaddis’s legendary course on strategy at Yale.

This event is open to the public, but admittance will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Refreshments will be provided.