On Monday 17 December 2007, Professor Ahmed Hashim (Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Naval Warfare Studies, Naval War College) will lead a discussion meeting on the topic of "The Evolution of the Iraqi Insurgency from 2003 to the Present" from 12.30-1.30 pm.
Ahmed S. Hashim is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College. He specialises on Middle Eastern and South Asian strategic issues, with a particular emphasis on Iraqi and Iranian affairs. He explores functional security issues such as the revolution in military affairs, asymmetric warfare, and terrorism.
Previously he worked at the Center for Naval Analyses for four years on issues such as the revolution in military affairs and asymmetric warfare. Between 1994 and 1996 he was Senior Fellow at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington DC where he worked on Middle East security issues. He was a Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London between 1993 and 1994 where he wrote a monograph entitled The Crisis of the Iranian State. He received his PhD and MSc from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his BSc from Warwick University in Coventry, United Kingdom.
His latest publications are "Saddam Husayn and Civil-Military Relations in Iraq: The Quest for Legitimacy and Power," Middle East Journal, Winter 2003; "The World According to Usama Bin Laden," Naval War College Review, Autumn 2001; “Iraq’s Chaos,” Boston Review, October 2004; “Iraq: From Insurgency to Civil War,” Current History, January 2005; Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq, Ithaca: Cornell University Press (Spring 2006).
He has served as a Foreign Area Officer (Lieutenant-Colonel) in the United States Army with Central Command in 2003-04 and with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in 2005 under the command of Colonel H.R. McMaster in Tel Afar, northern Iraq.
This meeting will take place on the Fourth Floor at Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, Temple Place, London WC2R 3DX.
As places are limited, please RSVP as early as possible.
If you would like to attend this meeting, please RSVP Kathleen James on james@iiss.org or tel. 020 7395 9109
