Should I Stay or Should I Go? Two Perspectives on U.S. Engagement in Afghanistan

An event cosponsored with the Alexander Hamilton Society

Tuesday, September 9, 2014  |  5:15 pm  |  SRH 3.124

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The Clash had no idea how relevant their questions could be to U.S. foreign policy. Looking to the 13th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Dr. Paul D. Miller and Dr. Eugene Gholz will discuss whether or not the United States should remain in Afghanistan. 

Dr. Paul D. Miller is the Associate Director of the Clements Center. Prior to joining the Clements Center, Dr. Miller was a political scientist in the National Security Research Division at the RAND Corporation. He served as Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff from 2007 through September 2009. Prior to joining RAND, Miller was an assistant professor at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., at which he developed and directed the College of International Security Affairs’ South and Central Asia Program. He also worked as an analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of South Asian Analysis, and served in Afghanistan as a military intelligence analyst with the U.S. Army. 

Dr. Eugene Gholz is an Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and works primarily at the intersection of national security and economic policy. From 2010-2012, he served in the Pentagon as Senior Adviser to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, where he led initiatives to better understand the complex defense supply chain and to apply that understanding in the budget process. He also focused on policy regarding reimbursement of industry’s Independent Research and Development (IR&D) expenditures. Dr. Gholz works on innovation, defense management, and U.S. foreign policy.