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MGPS Global Policy SimulationLBJ School of Public Affairs
Feb.12-14, 2015
Course Description:
The objective of the GPS Policy Simulation is to experience working in a team to participate in a complex and high-level diplomatic crisis negotiation. The objectives of the short course include the following:
gain exposure to the art of diplomatic negotiation, including the development of skills in negotiation and tactics develop teamwork skills practice collective writing, planning and management of negotiation strategy, oral presentation and communication demonstrate leadership and team participation skills development time management skills learn to work under conditions of time pressure, uncertainty, and high stakes
Grading:
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(1) Delegation team strategy memo (50%)For expectations and grading rubric, see “MemoEvalRubric_Spr2015” on CanvasFor the memo template, see “StrategyMemo_Template_2015”For a sample memo, see “SampleMemo_2015”
(2) Exercise participation (50%)For expectations and grading rubric, see “StudentEvaluation_2015” on Canvas. Your participation score will be determined by Dr. Weaver based upon direct observation, with the input of your team ambassador and military mentors. Students will also complete a self-evaluation.
Schedule of Events(subject to minor changes)
Wednesday, January 28
5:15-7:00 pm: Simulation Introduction and the Art of Strategy and Negotiation (mandatory session for students, Bass Lecture Hall)
Required Background Reading:
“Getting to Yes” [slide deck available on Canvas]
“Sudans Scenario Aide Memoire” [PDF: “SudansCrisis_AideMemoire_Fa2014.doc”]“Crisis in Sudan/South Sudan Scenario” [PDF: “Sudan Crisis Scenario.docx”]“Sudan-South Sudan References” [PDF: “Sudan-SouthSudan References.doc”]“United Nations Security Council Resolution” [PDF: “UNSCR 3302.doc”]Delegation Team – Confidential Instructions (one for each team [PDF – to be sent to each team by email]
Recommended Only: Thirteen Days in September, by Lawrence Wright
Wednesday, Feb.4 Delegation Team Memos due by email -- one copy to Dr. Weaver at [email protected]; one copy to your Ambassador Mentor, and one copy to your Military Mentor (emails below).
Thursday, Feb.12
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12:45-1:30 pm (SRH 3.122) Keynote address by David Gilmour, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Affairs (lunch provided)
5:15-6:00 pm (SRH 3.122): Welcome & Exercise Overview
6:15-8:15 pm (assigned spaces): Delegation team dinners and strategy sessionChina: SRH 3.314/3.355Ethiopia: SRH 3.360South Sudan: SRH 3.216/3.219Sudan: SRH3.316/3.350SPLM-North: SRH 3.220Uganda: SRH 3.214United States: SRH 3.212/3.221JSA and AWC Team: SRH 3.122
Friday, Feb.1312:15-1:00 pm Lunch SRH 3.1221:00-1:15 p.m. Opening Plenary Session SRH 3.1221:15-2:00 Team Meetings Team Rooms2:00-2:30 Bilateral Negotiation Sessions Negotiation Rooms2:30-3:15 Team Meetings Team Rooms3:15-3:45 Ad Hoc Negotiation Sessions Negotiation Rooms3:45-4:30 Team Meetings Team Rooms4:30-5:00 Ad Hoc Negotiation Sessions Negotiation Rooms5:00-5:45 Team Meetings Team Rooms5:45-6:15 Ad Hoc Negotiation Sessions Negotiation Rooms6:15-6:30 End of Day Wrap-up/Team AAR Team Rooms
7:00 pm Dinner for ISCNE Team, Ambassadors & Military MentorsCorazon Restaurant, 1101 West 5th Street
Saturday, Feb.147:30-8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast/Team Meetings Team Rooms8:15-8:45 Ad Hoc Negotiation Sessions Negotiation Rooms8:45-9:30 Team Meetings Team Rooms9:30-10:00 Ad Hoc Negotiation Sessions Negotiation Rooms10:00-10:45 Team Meetings Team Rooms10:45-11:15 Ad Hoc Negotiation Sessions Negotiation Rooms11:15-12:00 Team Prep for Closing Plenary Team Rooms
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12:00-1:00 p.m. Closing Plenary Session w/UN/AU-JSA SRH 3.1221:00-2:00 Lunch/After Action Review SRH 3.124 & SRH 3.1222:00 Exercise Concludes
Team Rooms and Negotiating Spaces
Plenary Room Delegation Team Rooms Negotiation SpacesSRH 3.122 China: SRH 3.314/3.355 #1: SRH 3.312
Ethiopia: SRH 3.360 #2: Second floor lobbyISCNE Command & Control Team
South Sudan: SRH 3.216/3.219
#3: SRH 3.260 (Second Floor Staff Lounge)
SRH 3.384G (Dean’s Conference Room)
Sudan: SRH3.316/3.350 #4: Third Floor Lobby
SPLM-N: SRH 3.220 #5: Barbara Jordan Nook – Third Floor
UN/AU Joint Special Advisor
Uganda: SRH 3.214 #6: Third Floor – Strauss Center Study Space
SRH 3.359 United States: SRH 3.212/3.221
#7: Second floor computer lab#8: SRH 3.124#9: First Floor – North Lobby#10: First Floor – Main Lobby (outside OSAP suite)#11: SRH 3.122#12: OSAP Conference Room (first floor)
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Delegations
UN/AU Joint Special Advisor: Ambassador Ron McMullenU.S. Army War College: Colonel Marty Clausen, Mr. Ritchie Dion, Major Dennis Davis, Major Joe Chretien
CHINAAw, Alan [email protected], Jessica [email protected], Travis [email protected], Robbie [email protected], Krista [email protected], Sophia [email protected], Katherine [email protected]
Ambassador Mentor: Dr Florita Sheppard ([email protected])Miltary Mentor: LTC Richard Wholey ([email protected])
ETHIOPIAAkbar, Zehra [email protected], Nkechi [email protected], Rachel [email protected], Peter [email protected], Takashi [email protected] Pereyra, Nadia [email protected], Geneva [email protected]
Ambassador Mentor: Ambassador Greg Engle ([email protected])Military Mentor: LTC Thomas L. Gravlee ([email protected])
SOUTH SUDANBeaufils, Olivier [email protected], Jason [email protected], Erin [email protected], Daniel [email protected], Jamie [email protected], Tanlyn [email protected], Hillary [email protected]
Ambassador Mentor: Ambassador James Creagan ([email protected])Military Mentor: COL Theresa Walsh ([email protected])
SUDANCaldwell, Ryan [email protected], Annie [email protected], Usman [email protected]
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Nelle-Davis, Ashley [email protected], Phillip [email protected] Keuren, Francoise [email protected], Tawheeda [email protected]
Ambassador Mentor: Ambassador Joe Stafford ([email protected])Military Mentor: LTC Michelle Letcher ([email protected])
SPLM-NORTHAlberts, Hannah [email protected], Niko [email protected], Linhphung [email protected], Sarah [email protected], Ben [email protected], Amelia [email protected], Ellen [email protected]
Military Mentor: Dr. Michael Mosser (former professor, SAMS, Fort Leavenworth, KS; UT Lecturer and European Studies Center Assistant Director; [email protected])
UGANDAAnib, Ariel [email protected], Shelby [email protected], Hummayun [email protected], Peter [email protected], London [email protected], Luis [email protected], Kelly [email protected]
Ambassador Mentor: Minister Counselor and LBJ School Diplomat-in-Residence Floyd Cable ([email protected])
Military Mentor: LTC Chad Harris ([email protected])
UNITED STATESCantrell, Douglas [email protected] Deal, Matthew [email protected], Jackie [email protected], Sarah [email protected], Kevin [email protected], Megan [email protected], Katy [email protected]
Ambassador Mentor: Tom McKeever, Minister Counselor ([email protected])Military Mentor: General Monty Meigs ([email protected])
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AMBASSADOR & MILITARY OFFICER MENTOR BIOGRAPHIES
Floyd S. Cable joined the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in 1987. He was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 2011, and in 2014 was promoted to the rank of Minister Counselor. He is currently Diplomat In Residence at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Cable has served at nine different overseas posts, and in every one of the State Department’s six overseas regional bureaus. His most
recent overseas assignment was that of Embassy Counselor for Management Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prior to his Riyadh assignment, he was Management Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria (2009-2011). Before that, that he was the Management Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan (2007-2009). He was a student at the National War College - National Defense University (August 2006-June 2007). In a Washington assignment, he was a Post Management Officer with the Bureau of East Asian & Pacific Affairs, and supported our diplomatic posts in China, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau. His other overseas assignments include: the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile; the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia; the U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba (officially part of the Embassy of Switzerland); the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Italy; the U.S. Consulate General in Medan, Indonesia; and the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Those assignments have provided Mr. Cable with a wealth of international, cross-cultural, and U.S. federal government interagency experiences.
Over the course of his career, his performance and service have earned him State Department Senior Performance Pay awards, as well as Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. In his time at the National War College, he earned a Master's degree in National Strategic Studies. Earlier in his career, he studied Spanish and Italian at the State Department’s National Foreign Affairs Training Center.
Ambassador Jim Creagan is the Director of the Center for International Studies, Ambassador in Residence and the current holder of the Amy Freeman Lee Chair of Humanities at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. James F. Creagan was a career diplomat for over thirty years and both a university professor and president. In the summer of 2009, Ambassador Creagan served as the United States Chargé d’Affaires to Bolivia and Chief of Mission at the American Embassy, La Paz, where he commanded a mission of over
500 people. In November 2009, he acted as an International Observer for the controversial presidential elections in Honduras. Mr. Creagan served his country under eight presidents beginning at the Agency for International Development under President Kennedy and then appointed to the Foreign Service under President Lyndon B. Johnson. During a diplomatic career spanning three decades, he was Chargé d’Affaires and Deputy Ambassador to Italy from 1993-1996 and Deputy Chief of Mission of the American
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Embassy to the Holy See in the late 1980s. Creagan was the U.S. Consul General in Sao Paulo, Brazil in the early 1990’s and the Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia in the mid-1980’s. Other assignments included U.S. Consul in Naples, Italy and the Political Counselor of the American Embassy in Lisbon, as well as political/labor officer in U.S. Embassies in Lima, Mexico City, San Salvador and Rome.
Mr. Creagan was named U.S. Ambassador to Honduras by President Clinton in 1996. Focusing on issues of development, economic growth and trade - and the strengthening of democracy, Ambassador Creagan turned all the efforts of his Embassy and U.S. government agencies to rescue, rehabilitation and recovery following the devastating hurricane “Mitch” of 1998. Ambassador Creagan was awarded the highest honor of the Republic of Honduras for his efforts and those of the U.S. Government to save lives and rebuild the country. He was declared an honorary Honduran citizen. The Ambassador received as well the Boston Archdiocese Caritas Christi Award for Humanitarian Service. The Holy See awarded him the title of Cavalier of the Order of St. Gregory for his special diplomatic service in U.S./Vatican relations. Italy’s president conferred on him the Italian Order of Merit for strengthening U.S.-Italian relations. Ambassador Creagan has been the recipient of numerous governmental service awards, including the Department of State Superior Honor Award for Distinguished Service and Deputy Chief of Mission Award for Top Management and Policy Execution.
Gregory W. Engle is a United States Diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Togo. He was sworn in as ambassador on May 12, 2003. Engle joined the Foreign Service in 1981, following a tour as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea. He also served in management positions in Pakistan, Germany, Washington, Ethiopia and Cyprus. He received the State Department's Leamon R. Hunt Award for Administrative Achievement in 1990.
Following his assignments in Cyprus, Engle served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Malawi from 1992 to 1995. Then from 1996 to 1999 he was the U.S. Consul General in South Africa. Following his assignment in South Africa, he returned to Washington where he served as Director of the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS) system from 1999 to 2001. In 2001, Engle became the Special Coordinator of the African Crisis Response Initiative. That program was merged into the Office of Regional and Security Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in 2002, and Engle became the Director.
In May 2003, Engle was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Togolese Republic and assumed charge of the U.S. Embassy in Lome. In June 2005, he became the Minister Counselor for Management Affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where he served until July 2006.
Following his assignment in Baghdad, Ambassador Engle served as the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomat-in-Residence at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in April 2008 and became the Senior Advisor for International Affairs at UT-Austin's International Office, where he served until April 2009, when he assumed his duties as the
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Associate Director of UT-Austin's Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. In June 2010, he retired from that position to pursue musical and charitable interests. He was a member of the adjunct faculty at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where he teaches a course in international management. In 2012, he became the Country Director for Peace Corps Ethiopia.
LTC Thomas L. Gravlee, Joint Operations Officer / Strategic Planner,United States Special Operations Command, Special Operations, Research Development & Acquisition Center, J4/J5 Strategic Plans. LTC Gravlee enlisted in the United States Army in 1985 as an Infantry Soldier. During his first ten years he served with the 2nd Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment; as a Pre-Ranger Instructor and Scout/Sniper Squad Leader with the 7th Infantry Division; and as a Ranger Instructor training Navy Seals, DEA Agents for Operation Snowcap and DOI Officers for Counter-Narcotic Operations with Echo Company, 4th Ranger Training
Battalion, cumulating in being selected for promotion to SFC prior to being commissioned.
LTC Gravlee was commissioned from Officer Candidate School (OCS) as an Ordnance Lieutenant. After OCS, he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, where he served as the Brigade Assistant S-4 of the 2nd Brigade/325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, Maintenance Platoon Leader and Maintenance Control Officer of the 407th Forward Support Battalion, and the Aide-de-Camp to the Assistant Division Commander for Support. After attending the Combined Logistics Officer Advanced Course, he commanded the 763rd Ordnance Company (EOD) where he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force for Operation Enduring Freedom. Following company command, he was assigned as an Assistant Professor of Military Science at the University of Washington. After Command & General Staff College, he served as the Battalion Executive Officer for the 63rd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion, deploying to Iraq and assuming the position as Executive Officer for the Joint Task Force Troy MND-Center/South, a Joint Counter-IED and CBRNE Task Force in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was then assigned as the G-3 Support Operations Officer for Special Programs/ACCM, managing WMD/EOD organizations for the National Mission Force and C-IED Exercise Branch Chief for the 20th SUPCOM (CBRNE). His previous assignment was at the Pentagon as a Strategic Logistics Planner for HQDA G-4, Strategy & Integration Directorate and then as the Military Assistant to the HQDA Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4.
LTC Gravlee holds a Master’s in Strategic Planning for Critical Infrastructures from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Troy State University. Some of his military education includes Primary Leadership Development Course, Basic Non-Commissioned Officers Course, Ordnance Officers Basic Course, the Combined Logistics Commanders Career Course, Combined Arms and Services Staff School and the Command and General Staff College - ILE. He is also a graduate of the US Army Sniper Course, Rappel Master Course, USMC Mountain
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Warfare Training Course, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Sandia National Laboratories Joint Nuclear Explosive Ordnance Disposal Course, the Prevention and Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents Performance Level Training Course from New Mexico Tech, the Support Operations Officer Course, the 3H Joint Planners Course and the Israel Defense Forces International Brigade Logistics Course.
LTC Gravlee’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star (1 Oak Leaf Cluster), Meritorious Service Medal (1 Silver & 1 Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal (2 Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal (3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Good Conduct Medal (3rd Award), Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Ranger Tab, Expert Infantry Badge, Master Parachutist Badge, Pathfinder Badge, Air Assault Badge, Canadian Parachutist Badge, the Senior Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge, Army Staff Identification Badge and the Honorable Order of the Dragon Award.
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Chad Harris enlisted as an infantryman in the Army in 1994 and was later selected to attend Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia. LTC Harris was commissioned in 1995 as an Armor Officer. LTC Harris served as an armor platoon leader and armor company executive officer in 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. He later served as the aide-de-camp to the ADC-M 24th ID at Fort Riley, Kansas. After attending the Armor Officer Advanced Course, LTC Harris served as the M Company Commander and later the Headquarters and
Headquarters Troop Commander in 3rd Squadron 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Carson, Colorado. He deployed to Iraq in April 2003 as the HHT Commander during OIF 1. After returning to the US, LTC Harris served as Observer/Controller Team Lead training National Guard and Reserve units for deployment to Iraq.
LTC Harris joined the Acquisition Corps in 2005 and attended the Naval Post Graduate School, graduating in 2006 with a Master’s in Business Administration in Defense Systems Acquisition Management. He served as a Test Officer at US Army Operational Test Command (USAOTC), Fort Hood, Texas, working on engineer equipment to include the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP), the MRAP Ambulance and the Line of Communication Bridge. In 2009, LTC Harris returned to Iraq as a Team Chief on the Army Test and Evaluation Command’s Forward Operational Assessment Team (FOA XII). After returning to the US, LTC Harris served as the Assistant Product Manager for Maneuver Support in the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office (RSJPO) in Warren, Michigan. While serving as the APM he managed the Talon Engineer Robotic Systems and the M160 Light Robotic Flail System. LTC Harris’ next assignment was Commander, Yuma Test Center (YTC) where he commanded one of the Army's largest test centers. While at YTC, LTC Harris led an organization comprised of 1500 Soldiers, civilians and contractors, responsible for testing a wide variety of equipment from artillery and armor systems to unmanned aerial systems to counter IED systems. His
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awards include the Bronze Star with “V”, the Bronze Star, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal and Parachute Badge.
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Michelle Letcher was commissioned in the Air Defense Artillery branch via the Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1995. She was branch detailed and became an Ordnance Officer in 1997. Her military education includes Air Defense Artillery Officer Basic, Ordnance Basic Munitions Management Officer’s Course, Combined Logistics Officer’s Advanced Course, Command and General Staff Officer’s Course and the School of Advanced Military Studies. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Work from Illinois State University and a Masters in Human Services and Counseling from
the State University of New York at Oswego, a Masters in Advanced Military Studies from the Command and General Staff College, and a Masters in National Security and Strategic Studies from Kansas State University.
Her service with Soldiers includes: Commander, 18th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, Grafenwoehr, Germany; Commander, B Company, 26th Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia; and Launcher Platoon Leader, 1-43 Air Defense Artillery Battalion, Osan Air Base, Korea.Her key staff assignments include: Chief, Support Operations in the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), Fort Hood, Texas; LTC Assignment Officer, Human Resources Command, Fort Knox, Kentucky; Support Operations Officer, 189th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Sustainment Planner, 18th Airborne Corps and Multi-National Corps-Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq; Observer/Controller for the BCT S4 and BSB Staff at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California; Battalion S-3, 26th Forward Support Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division and Battalion S-4 and Maintenance Control Officer, 710th Main Support Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York.LTC Letcher’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal (2 oak leaf clusters), Meritorious Service Medal (3 oak leaf clusters) and Army Commendation Medal (3 oak leaf clusters).
Thomas E. McKeever is a retired senior Foreign Service officer, State Department Special Agent and former Director of the NATO Office of Security. He was the NATO Secretary General’s principal advisor on security issues directing activities to protect NATO personnel, facilities, and information. He chaired meetings of senior security authorities of the allied and partner nations, served as the technical advisor for meetings and activities of the alliance’s Security Services, and was responsible for the overall co-ordination
of security within NATO.
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Mr. McKeever was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State and held the personal rank of Minister Counselor. His career with the U.S. Government focused on law enforcement and security matters. Prior to joining NATO, where he worked from 2004 to 2007, he served as the Assistant Director for Domestic Operations, 2002-2004, in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), U.S. Department of State where he was responsible for all domestic DS activities (investigative and close protection activities as well as physical security for Department buildings). He also served as the DS Regional Director for the Western Hemisphere, Chief of the Chemical/Biological Countermeasures Office, and Chief of the Criminal Investigations Division among other assignments for DS. Mr. McKeever joined the State Department in 1975 and in addition to his numerous Washington assignments served in El Paso, Texas and San Francisco, California as well as the U.S. Embassies in Argentina (1980-1982), the Dominican Republic (1982-1985) and U.S. Mission Geneva, Switzerland (1992-1995). Mr. McKeever is currently self employed as a security consultant, primarily with the Department of State. Most notably he recently assisted the Department in the aftermath of the Benghazi attacks of 2012.
In over 35 years of active service in the US Army, General Monty Meigs served most of his time in US Army Europe commanding at every level from platoon leader to Commanding General. His service in harm’s way includes campaigns in Viet Nam, where he commanded an armored cavalry troop, in Kuwait & Iraq in DESERT STORM where he commanded an Armored Brigade, and two tours in Bosnia Herzegovina, as a division commander and subsequently as COMSFOR, the commander of the NATO peacekeeping force.
After retirement, General Meigs served as a visiting professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Maxwell School at Syracuse, NY, and the Center for Peace and Security Studies at Georgetown University. In 2005 he was called back to the Department of Defense to head the Joint IED Defeat Organization, which helped forces in the field reduce the effectiveness of improvised explosive devices. He has rejoined the LBJ Faculty as a visiting professor and has been appointed a Senior Lecturer. His awards include the Bronze Star with V device, the Purple Heart and the Defense Distinguished Service Medal. His foreign awards include the German Federal Republic’s Service Cross with Star, and he is an Officer of the French Legion of Honor.
Ambassador Ron McMullen is currently Visiting Associate professor at the University of Iowa. He formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to the State of Eritrea. He has over 30 years of diplomatic experience and has lived, worked or traveled in 91 countries. Ambassador McMullen was Deputy Chief of Mission in Rangoon, Burma from 2002 until 2005. In Burma he worked closely with Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and pro-democracy and ethnic minority groups. As Deputy Chief of Mission and
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Charge’ d’Affaires in the Fiji Islands from 1999 until 2002, he was instrumental in helping Fiji pull back from the brink of civil conflict after an armed takeover of parliament and subsequent coup d’etat.
He previously directed the Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Bureau of International Narcotic and Law Enforcement Affairs. Prior to that he served as Associate Dean of the Foreign Service Institute’s School of Leadership and Management. Other overseas assignments include serving as Deputy Principal Officer in Cape Town, South Africa; Economic Officer in Libreville, Gabon; Political Officer in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Vice Consul in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. From 1990 until 1993 Dr. McMullen served as Visiting Professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he taught six different courses in International Relations and Comparative Politics. He is a three-time recipient of the State Department’s Superior Honor Award. He also served as the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomat-in-Residence for Central Texas from 2010-2012, during which he taught courses at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Since Summer 2012, Dr. Michael W. Mosser has served as a lecturer with a joint appointment in the Department of Government, the Center for European Studies, and the International Relations and Global Governance (IRG) program at the University of Texas at Austin. From August 2009 to May 2012, he was a visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. From January to June 2009, he served as
Associate Director of the European Union Center of Excellence and a Fellow of the Robert S. Strauss Center at the University of Texas at Austin. From June 2009 to May 2010, he was the initial military/education liaison for the University of Texas LBJ School of Public Affairs Robert S. Strauss Center’s “Climate Change and African Political Stability” grant funded by the US Department of Defense’s Minerva Initiative. From 2006 to 2009 he was an assistant professor at the US Army School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he taught international relations, security studies, and comparative foreign policy of Western Europe.
He has published articles in the fields of military art and science and military sociology, and is presently working on a research project re-conceptualizing military doctrine as a social construction. His latest article (co-authored with Dr. Dan Cox of SAMS), "Defense Forecasting in Theory and Practice: Conceptualizing and Teaching the Future Operating Environment," was published online at Small Wars Journal in January 2013. Previous articles include “Identimetrics: Operationalizing Identity in Counterinsurgency Operations” was published online at the e-International Relations website (http://www.e-ir.info) in March 2010 and “The Promise and the Peril: The Social Construction of American Military Technology,” in the Whitehead Journal of International Diplomacy and International Relations, Volume XI, Number 2 (Summer/Fall 2010), pp. 91-104. In addition Mosser published the lead article in the “Puzzles Versus Problems: The Alleged Disconnect between Academics and Military Practitioners,” symposium in Perspectives on Politics 8:4 (December 2010), pp. 1077-1086, as well as “The Myth of a Global Insurgency: The Dangers of Mistaking Coherence for Capability,” in JFQ: Joint Force
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Quarterly, 56:1 (January 2010), pp. 140-143. While at SAMS, he published the lead article of a series on the military role in the amnesty, reconciliation and reintegration (AR2) process entitled “The ‘Armed Reconciler:’ The Military Role in the Amnesty, Reconciliation, and Reintegration Process,” Military Review, Vol. 87 (Nov./Dec. 2007), pp. 13-19.
Florita Sheppard was a career Foreign Service officer, attached most recently to the Bureau for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. She was the Bureau’s deputy executive director and provided management support to 200 domestic staff and to the U.S. diplomatic missions in China, Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand and 19 other countries in East Asia and the Pacific. Her previous assignment was as supervisory general services officer in Tokyo, where she was responsible for
management of U.S. diplomatic property throughout Japan valued at $2.5 billion and government procurement averaging $25 million annually. In Japan, she and her staff of 60 provided logistical support for five presidential visits to that country between 1998 and 2002. During her career with the State Department, Ms. Sheppard has spent 14 years in Washington and 9 years abroad—in Panama, Singapore and Japan. Ms. Sheppard received her MPAff degree from the LBJ School in 1980, previously served as the U.S. State Department’s Diplomat-in-Residence at the LBJ School and also taught as a member of the LBJ School faculty.
Ambassador Joseph D. Stafford, III was a career Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, who assumed the position of Charge' d' Affaires, (de-facto ambassador) at the Embassy of the United States Khartoum, Sudan before he retired in February of last year.
Previously he served as: Consul General in Lagos, Nigeria; Anti-Corruption Coordinator in Baghdad, Iraq; Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia in West Africa; Deputy Chief of Mission in Cote d'Ivoire, Tunisia, Algeria and Mauritania.
In Washington, his assignments included teaching on the faculty of the National War College and serving as the State Department's Deputy Director of Maghreb Affairs (North Africa). He was also Political Analyst for the Arabian Peninsula in the State Department's Office of Intelligence and Research.
His earlier assignments were to Algeria, Kuwait, Egypt, Italy, and Tehran. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees and is fluent in Arabic, French, and Italian. He has received the State Department's Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards as well as the Award for Valor.
Colonel (COL) Walsh’s military career began when she enrolled in the Reserve Officer Training Corps at University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, in September 1984. She enlisted as a private in the Army Reserve in January 1985, attending basic training at Fort
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Dix, New Jersey, and intelligence analyst training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Following her initial assignment, as am Army Reservist, to the 136th Military Intelligence Detachment, at Fort Lawton, Washington, she was commissioned as a military intelligence officer in December 1987. Upon graduating with a BA in Criminal Justice, she went on to attend Military Intelligence (MI) Officer Basic Course at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, in June 1989.
From June 1990 to December 1991, COL Walsh served as a special projects officer for 8th Army, Seoul, Korea, and helped establish the first USAR unit, 343rd Rear Tactical Operations Center (RTOC), Seoul, Korea. From January 1992 to July 1997, COL Walsh served as a traditional drilling reserve Soldier and was assigned to the 338th MI Battalion, Fort Meade, Maryland, where her responsibilities progressed from training officer to battalion S2 and then company commander, including a six-month active duty detail with a special operations active-duty military intelligence brigade.
In August 1997, COL Walsh was accepted to the Active Guard Reserve (AGR) program serving as battalion S4 (logistics officer) for the 14th Psychological Operations Battalion, Moffett Field, California, then as S1 (Adjutant) with the 1st Simulation Exercise Group at Camp Parks, California. In December 2002, COL Walsh was selected as the Acquisition Personnel Career Manager for Human Resources Command, St Louis, Missouri, and then moved to the National Capital Region in 2004 as NCR assignments manager, Crystal City, Virginia. COL Walsh remained in Virginia, serving as deputy director of OCAR’s Business Management Section before her promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in December 2007 and assignment to the Headquarter Department of the Army - G1, Pentagon, Washington, DC, as the AGR and Individual Management Augmentee Policy Integrator. In October 2008, COL Walsh was selected as Deputy Chief of Staff-G1 for Military Intelligence Readiness Command, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Eight months later, COL Walsh was board selected to serve as Deputy Commander for the 470th MI Brigade, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, one of the five active component Theater Intelligence Brigades. In August 2010, COL Walsh deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan, was nominated and selected to serve as executive officer to Brigadier General Stephen Fogarty, CJ2, International Security Assistance Force. Upon redeployment, she returned to the Pentagon in July 2011 at the Office of Secretary Defense, Reserve Affairs, as the Education Program Manager, until she was selected to be the Chief, GOMO, from June 2012 to June 2014.
COL Walsh is a graduate of MI Officer Basic and Advanced Course, Physical Security, Logistics Management, Mobilization Planners and Basics of Contracting Course, Combined Arms Service and Staff School, Personnel and Human Resource Management, Contracting Officers Representative, Command and General Staff Course, Advanced Force Management Course, Defense Strategy Course and the Pre-Command Course. COL Walsh was awarded her Master's in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix in May 2005. COL Walsh’s awards include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Meritorious Service Medal (3 Oak Leaf Clusters), Army Commendation Medal (4 Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Army Achievement Medal (3 Oak Leaf Clusters), and the Army Staff Identification Badge.
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Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Richard A. Wholey Jr. began his military career as a Private in the Army Reserves, drilling in Granite City, Illinois. After completing Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Lee, Virginia, he moved to South Carolina to attend Clemson University and serve with Company C, 391st Engineering Battalion in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He graduated from Clemson University in May 1995, commissioning as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
After graduating from the Signal Corps Officer Basic Course in December 1995, he was assigned to the 151st Signal Battalion, South Carolina Army National Guard. He held numerous positions within the 151st Expeditionary Signal Battalion (ESB) to include: Platoon Leader, Executive Officer, S1, S3, Company and Battalion Commander. As the Company Commander for Company C, 151st ESB, he deployed the unit to Kuwait from February 2003 to May 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, assigned to the 11th and 7th Signal Brigades. As the Battalion Commander, he deployed the Battalion from July 2010 to July 2011 across four countries in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, New Dawn, and Enduring Freedom. LTC Wholey served in multiple positions with the 228th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade, South Carolina Army National Guard, culminating as the Deputy Brigade Commander. He is currently assigned as the Deputy Chief of Staff – G6, 263rd Army and Air Missile Defense Command.
LTC Wholey’s military education includes the Signal Officer Basic and Advanced courses, the Combined Arms Services Staff School, the Command and General Staff College - Intermediate Level Education (ILE), the Contracting Officer Representatives Course, the Advanced Operations Course, and the Air Defense Transition Course. His civilian education includes a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University and a Master's in Computer Resource Management from Webster University.
LTC Wholey’s military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Combat Action Badge, among others.
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