It has been a decade since the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 ushered in a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, creating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center.

Why are Shiites and Sunnis tearing each other apart in the Middle East? Why has China’s rise transformed the global economy? And why is the United States only just extracting itself from a 13-year war in Afghanistan?

Please join The Trinity Forum and Clements Center for an evening conversation with Executive Director William Inboden at 6:30pm on Thursday, September 25th at The Army Navy Club in Washington, D.C. This Evening Conversation is the first in a four part series on “God & Geopolitics: Religion and National Security in an Era of Instability.”

The Clements Center, Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the LBJ Presidential Library jointly invite you to a conversation with Ambassador Jack Matlock, Jr. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 23rd from 12:15pm-1:30pm in the 10th Floor Atrium of the LBJ Library. The event is free and open to the public.

In 1984, less than a decade after the fall of Saigon, journalist David Halberstam claimed “the American military apparatus in Vietnam [was] a vast lying machine, telling Washington what Washington wanted to hear and insisted upon hearing. The purpose of this lying machine was to propagandize our alleged progress in the war and to convince Congress and the American public to support the war.”

Please join the Clements Center to learn more about the Maymester in London program “The British Strategic Tradition and Its Influence on the United States.” 

Michael Auslin is a resident scholar and the director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies Asian regional security and political issues.

Please join the Clements Center and Alexander Hamilton Society for “Should I Stay or Should I Go? Two Perspectives on U.S. Engagement in Afghanistan,” Tuesday, September 9 at 5:15 pm in SRH 3.124. 

Steele Brand is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft. Brand’s research explores how constitutional ideals in the ancient world engendered civic militarism, particularly in Israel, Greece, and Rome.