Oct Luncheon 2013
Http://www.AustinRepublicanWomen.orgJoin us for our October Luncheon
Dr. Mack Owens
Thursday, October 3, 2013
11:30 – 1:00
Austin Country Club
4408 Longchamp Drive
(off Westlake Drive at 360)
$27
Please Note: We will be back in the regular place, the Ballroom.
Since we have a disjointed and disasterous foreign policy with this administration, come and hear Dr. Mack Owens discuss, "Toward a Republican Foreign Policy." Dr. Owens who earned a Silver Star as a Marine in Vietnam, is professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, and his expertise is national security. Bring your questions.
Mackubin OwensProfessor
National Security AffairsU.S.Naval War CollegeDr. Owens is professor of national security affairs in the National Security Affairs (NSA) Department of the Naval War College. He is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) in Philadelphia, and editor of Orbis, FPRI’s quarterly journal. He specializes in the planning of US strategy and forces, especially naval and power projection forces; the political economy of national security; national security organization; strategic geography; energy security; and American civil-military relations.Dr. Owens is a contributing editor to National Review Online and a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, writing primarily on security affairs. His articles have appeared in numbers of other publications around the country including: The Weekly Standard, National Review, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, the Jerusalem Post, and The Washington Times,. He is co-editor of the textbook, Strategy and Force Planning, now in its fourth edition. His book, US Civil-Military Bargain after 9/1: Renegotiating the Civil-Millitary Bargain was published in January 2011 by Continuum. He is also completing a book for the University Press of Kentucky tentatively titled Sword of Republican Empire: A History of US Civil-Military Relations.
Before joining the faculty of the War College, Dr. Owens served as National Security Adviser to Senator BobKasten, Republican of Wisconsin, and Director of Legislative Affairs for the Nuclear Weapons Programs of the Department of Energy during the Reagan administration. Dr. Owens is a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, where as an infantry platoon commander in 1968-1969, he was wounded twice and awarded the Silver Star medal. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1994.Dr. Owens earned his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Dallas, a Master of Arts in Economics from Oklahoma University, and his BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has taught at the University of Rhode Island, the University of Dallas, Catholic University, Ashland University of Ohio, and the Marine Corps’ School of AdvancedWarfighting (SAW). He has been a program officer for the Smith Richardson Foundation, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses and a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Plans Division, Headquarters Marine Corps; and J-5 Strategy, the Joint Staff.Deadline is: Noon Tuesday, 1 October 2013
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