The Foreign Policy In Focus project presents:

U.S. Foreign Military Training, Trade, and Aid Programs:
Global Reach, Global Power, and Oversight Issues

U.S. military activity in the trade, aid and training programs have grown markedly following the September terror attacks. At the same time, responsibility for overseeing military training and aid programs increasingly are spread across both the foreign aid and defense committees. The briefing will focus on new plans for these programs and raise awareness of tools for oversight that currently exist.

The briefing will be:
Monday, May 20
9:30-11 am
Room 385, Russell Senate Office Building
A light breakfast will be available.

Panelists will include:

Dana Priest, reporter for the Washington Post who has just returned from Afghanistan and recently completed a book on the role of the regional military commands in military training overseas.

Major General William L. Nash (ret.), Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, former Program Manager for the Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program and military commander in Bosnia.

Debra Avant, Associate Professor, George Washington University, and author of a forthcoming book on private military contractors.

Sharon Burke, Advocacy Director for Military, Security and Police Issues, Amnesty International USA.

Lora Lumpe, author of a new FPIF report, U.S. Foreign Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power and Oversight Issues.

NGO Sponsors: Foreign Policy In Focus and Women In International Security

To order the FPIF Special Report U.S. Foreign Military Training: Global Reach, Global Power, and Oversight Issues by Lora Lumpe:
Contact: Juliette Niehuss
Cost: $10 plus $5 postage; $10 postage overseas

The Foreign Policy In Focus project presents:

U.S. Foreign Military Training, Trade, and Aid Programs: Global Reach, Global Power, and Oversight Issues

Panelists will include:

U.S. Foreign Military Training, Trade, and Aid Programs:
Global Reach, Global Power, and Oversight Issues