International Security & Defense

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Harvard Kennedy School’s Ashton Carter Nominated as Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

Press Release

Harvard Kennedy School’s Ashton Carter Nominated as Pentagon’s Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics

| February 26, 2009

President Barack Obama announced Monday that he has nominated Dr. Ashton B. Carter to serve as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics.

Honor and Opportunity: John P. Holdren, director of the Center’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy program, was installed in May as guest professor of Tsinghua University, a prestigious three-year non-resident appointment to the university known as “

Tsinghua University

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Belfer in Brief

Winter 2008-09

Brief notes on the recent comings and goings of a sampling of Belfer Center faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Allison’s Nonlethal Weapons Task Force Finds NLWs Could Have Saved Lives in Iraq

Spring 2004

The role of non-lethal weapons in the military should be substantially expanded, according to a recent report from an independent task force on "Non-Lethal Weapons and Capabilities." Convened by the Council on Foreign Relations and co-chaired by Graham Allison and Marine Corps General Paul X. Kelly (ret.), the task force presented its report in March. Among its findings: nonlethal weapon use by US forces in Iraq could have saved lives and reduced damage from sabotage and looting.