An Airman Goes To Stanford

The Good Lieutenant  (Whitney Terrell). Mr. Terrell embedded with ground units in Iraq and wrote a fictional book about life in a combat support company of an INF BN. His work centers around a Lt and how the officer led her unit and the changes she underwent during that time. We discussed the book with the author in my War and Fiction class at Stanford. His perspective of deployment experiences varied differently than the other veterans in the class. https://www.amazon.com/The- Good-Lieutenant/dp/B01GOYX5X4/ ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid= 1520533883&sr=8-1&keywords= the+good+lieutenant+by+ whitney+terrell The Square and the Tower  (Dr. Niall Ferguson). Dr. Ferguson's latest work analyzes the role of personal networks and how they were more powerful than hierarchical structures. For example, is the connectivity to Dr. Kissinger more powerful than political parties. Will facebook and social networking supplant current nation states? Interesting piece would be to look...

Events 1) Senior US mentor for Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. Over sixty students from MIIS, Berkeley and DLI formed teams around the 6 party talks over denuclearizing DPRK. 2) Attended discussion on "Is Demographic Change Inevitable" by Dr, David Leal.  --Analyzed shifts in demography and how it is affecting the national political process 3) Discussion on "Russian threats to the US Judicial System" by Suzanne Spaulding (CSIS) --Centered around parallels in election meddling and attacks on judicial processes 4) Met with USCG PACAREA Command (VADM Midgette) and his senior staff --3x Admirals, 15 CAPTs and CDRs --Topics were arctic, climate change and cybersecurity in the maritime domain, Pacific maritime security --I moderated the cybersecurity discussion b/w myself, Dr. Herb Lin and Dr. Jason Jaskolka --Meeting with PACAREA/C5I Director and her staff this month 5) Attended roundtable on "Human Rights ...