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Home Guest Speakers Syllabus & Readings Biographies Links	Guest Speakers Fall 2008 Professor Norman A. Graebner September 3: Vietnam and the Cold War Context Norman A. Graebner is the Randolph P. Compton Professor of History and Public Affairs, Emeritus, at the University of Virginia. Mr. Graebner received his bachelor's degree from Milwaukee State Teachers College (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) in 1939, his M.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1940, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1949. In addition, he holds an M.A. from Oxford university as well as six honorary degrees. during the four decades before his retirement in 1986 he taught at Iowa State University, the University of Illinois (where he was chairman of the history department, 1961-63), and after 1967 at the University of Virginia. He also taught for one year each at Stanford, the U.S. Military Academy, Oxford and Penn State. His major awards include the Thomas Jefferson Award of the University of Virginia, the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship at Oxford University, and election to the Society of American Historians, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. While at the University of Illinois he was an associate member of its Center for Advanced Study, (1960-1961); in 1967-1969 he held an appointment to the University of Virginia's Center for Advanced Study. During 1963 he served as Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; in 1983 at the University of Sydney; in 1998-99 at the University of Heidelberg. In 1985 he was the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Scholar at Downing College, Cambridge University. He has lectured at some 200 colleges and universities in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Among his books are Empire of the Pacific (1955); The New Isolationism (1956); Cold War Diplomacy (1962, 2nd ed., 1977); Ideas and Diplomacy (1964); The Age of Global Power (1979); America as a World Power (1984); and Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1985). He is co-author of History of the United States (2 vols., 1970); History of the American People (1970, 2nd ed.); and Recent United States History (1972). His other writings include some 130 articles, essays, and portions of books. For thirty years he has been Contributing Editor of Current History. His chief interest is U.S. foreign policy. Hays Parks October 1: The Air War in Vietnam and its Influence on More Recent Conflicts W. Hays Parks entered federal service as a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps. His initial service was as a reconnaissance officer. He served in the Republic of Viet Nam (1968-1969) as an infantry officer and senior prosecuting attorney for the First Marine Division. Subsequent assignments included service as a congressional liaison officer for the Secretary of the Navy. Mr. Parks occupies the Law of War Chair in the Office of the General Counsel, Department of Defense. Previously he was the Special Assistant to The Judge Advocate General of the Army for Law of War Matters from July 1979 to August 2003. He was a legal adviser for the 1986 air strike against terrorist-related targets in Libya , and had primary responsibility for the investigation of Iraqi war crimes during its 1990-1991 occupation of Kuwait . He has served as a United States representative for law of war negotiations in New York , Geneva , The Hague and Vienna . Mr. Parks occupied the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law at the Naval War College in 1984-1985. In 1987 he served as a staff member on the Presidential Commission established to examine alleged security breaches in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow . In 1989 he prepared the U.S. Government's legal opinion defining assassination . He has testified as an expert witness in cases against terrorists in the United States and Canada . A retired colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, he earned Navy-Marine Corps, Canadian and British Parachutist wings, U.S. Army Master Parachutist wings, and 82 nd Airborne Centurion wings during his military career. Mr. Parks has lectured on the law affecting military operations at the National, Army, Air Force and Naval War Colleges ; the service staff colleges; and other service schools. An adjunct professor of international law at the American University School of Law, he has published articles in a variety of military and legal journals. In 2001 he became the sixth person in the history of the United States Special Operations Command to receive that command's top civilian award, the U.S. Special Operations Command Outstanding Civilian Service Medal. Paul Galanti November 12 : Prisoners of War - A First-Person Account Paul Galanti grew up in a service family in many states, Japan , France , Turkey and Germany . He graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1962. He immediately entered Navy jet flight training at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola , Florida . Following completion of advanced training in November 1963, he was a flight instructor in Pensacola . In November 1964, he joined Navy Light Jet Attack Squadron 216 (VA-216) based aboard the carrier, USS Hancock , which departed for Southeast Asia in November 1965. Galanti flew 97 combat missions in his A-4 Skyhawk before being shot down and captured on June 17, 1966 . He remained a prisoner of war of the North Vietnamese for nearly seven years and was released on February 12, 1973. Following rehabilitation at Portsmouth Naval Hospital , the Navy sent him to the Navy Recruiting District in Richmond , Virginia as its Executive Officer. He received the Master of Commerce degree (MBA) from the University of Richmond in May 1976 after two years of night school. He then became Commanding Officer of the Richmond Recruiting District which set accession records during his tenure as Virginia 's chief Navy recruiter. In July 1979 he moved to Annapolis in the Office of the Commandant at the Naval Academy — responsible for the military and leadership training of 750 academy midshipmen. Additionally, he was faculty advisor to the Brigade of Midshipmen Drum & Bugle Corps, the Lucky Bag (Academy yearbook) and the Midshipmen Honor Committee. He audited every undergraduate course in the Naval Academy 's Computer Science major while on the faculty there. After retiring from the Navy, he became, in 1983, the first non-pharmacist Executive Director of the Virginia Pharmaceutical Association in its 100 year history. Joining the Medical Society of Virginia staff in September 1991, Galanti became the Executive Vice President of the Society on January 1, 1993 . In both organizations, he used his computer expertise to vault them into the forefront nationally for association automation. In 2000, he was the Virginia Campaign Director for Senator John McCain's Presidential bid. He is currently the Director of National Service Officers for the American Ex-Prisoners of War. Galanti's military decorations for heroism under fire include the Silver Star, combat awards of the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star, nine combat Air Medals and two Purple Hearts. Additional Information: Galanti appeared on the covers of Life (October 20, 1967) and Newsweek (February 26, 1973) and in the August 19, 1999 issue of Time . Selling Power highlighted his success story in a six page motivation section, Never Give Up, Never Give In, in its May/June 1996 issue. That national sales journal chose him as one of the twelve outstanding motivators in the United States in September 1996. He has appeared in two documentary films, the Emmy Award-winning “Vietnam POWs, Tales of Survival” and “Return With Honor” in 1999. He is a recipient of the Liberty Bell Award from the Richmond Bar Association, the Outstanding Virginian Award and numerous awards and citations for civic service. He is Immediate Past President of the Science Museum of Virginia Foundation, a Past President of Nam-POWs, the national Vietnam POW Fraternity and an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia. Additionally, he serves on the Secretary of Veteran Affairs' Advisory Committee on Former POWs and was President of his class at Annapolis. He is married to the former Phyllis Eason. They have two grown sons. Dr. Lewis "Bob" Sorley September 24: A Military Historian Reflects on Vietnam Lewis Sorley, a former soldier and then civilian official of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a third-generation graduate of the United States Military Academy who also holds a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He has served on the faculties at West Point and the Army War College . His Army service also included leadership of tank and armored cavalry units in Germany , Vietnam and the United States and staff positions in the offices of the Secretary of Defense and the Army Chief of Staff. He is the author of a book on foreign policy entitled "Arms Transfers under Nixon" and two biographies, "Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times" and "Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command." The Johnson biography received the Army Historical Foundation's Distinguished Book Award. An excerpt of the Abrams biography won the Peterson Prize as the year's best scholarly article on a topic in military history. His most recent book is "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam ," which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His edited work "Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972" will be published by Texas Tech University Press in November 2004. He is currently researching a biography of General William C. Westmoreland. Dr. Sorley serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Army Historical Foundation and is Executive Director of the Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the United States . Dr. Marin Strmecki October 29: Strategic Assessment from Kennedy to Nixon Dr. Strmecki holds a Ph.D. from Columbia and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is Senior Vice President and Director of Programs at the Smith Richardson Foundation in Westport, Connecticut. Before joining the Foundation in 1994, he served as a professional staff member on both the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He also served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State. Dr. Strmecki served from 1978 to 1994 as a foreign policy assistant to former President Richard Nixon, assisting with the research and writing of seven books on foreign policy and politics (including No More Vietnams). Professor Gary D. Solis November 5: "War Crimes and the Law of Armed Conflict: My Lai, Hue, and Related Issues " Gary Solis is a retired U.S. Marine, having twice served in Vietnam. After Vietnam service he attended law school at the University of California at Davis, after which he was a Marine judge advocate and court-martial judge. He received a Ph.D. in the law of war from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He taught law at the LSE for three years, moving to the United States Military Academy in 1996. He taught there for five years, initiating and directing West Point’s law of war program. Leaving the Military Academy, he was the Marine Corps’ Chief of Oral History, returning to the Military Academy in 2004. He retired as a West Point professor of law in 2006. He is an adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and teaches at The International Institute of Humanitarian Law, in San Remo, Italy. His books are Marines and Military Law in Vietnam (1989), Son Thang: An American War Crime (1997), and a law of war casebook in progress. Professor Robert O'Neil Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Freedom of Expression November 19: "Military Operations, the Media, and the First Amendment" A graduate of Harvard College (1956) and the Harvard Law School (1961), Robert O'Neil served in 1962-63 as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. He then began teaching law at the University of California at Berkeley, where he served until, in 1971, he became Provost (later Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs) at the University of Cincinnati. He served as Vice President/Bloomington of Indiana University from 1975-80, President of the University of Wisconsin System (1980-85) and President of the University of Virginia (1985-90). In 1989-90, he chaired the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges . He was also a member of the law faculty at each institution, teaching at least one course every semester. Since 1990, he has been a full-time law professor, chiefly in constitutional law, and has been the Founding Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. He has been a Trustee or Director of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Educational Testing Service, the Fort James Corporation, and the Commonwealth Fund, and currently serves on the Board of TIAA-CREF. He recently chaired the boards of WVPT-Public Television, the Council for America 's First Freedom, and the Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the American Association of University Professors. He holds honorary degrees from Beloit College and Indiana University . He and his wife Karen, a teacher and college counselor at St. Anne's-Belfield School, have four children and six grandchildren.

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