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 Clements Center welcomes top intelligence officials to UT Campus to discuss intelligence reform
The Clements Center, the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the Intelligence and National Security Alliance hosted a first-of-its kind conference featuring America's most senior intelligence and counterterrorism leaders at The University of Texas on October 16-18. Speakers included Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Admiral William McRaven, Rep. Mac Thornberry and Rep. Michael McCaul.
The conference “Intelligence Reform and Counterterrorism after a Decade: Are We Smarter and Safer?” examined the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which ushered in a sweeping reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community and created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Counterterrorism Center. The conference participants discussed lessons learned and the challenges that lie ahead.
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Conference audio and video
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 Undergraduate Fellow receives Marshall Scholarship
Undergraduate Fellow Mark Jbeily has been selected to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship in 2015. According to their website, "Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a graduate degree in the United Kingdom. Up to forty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study."
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 Congratulations to Statecraft Board member Ashton Carter
The Clements Center would like to congratulate Statecraft Board member Ashton Carter on his nomination to be the next Secretary of Defense, replacing Secretary Chuck Hagel.
According to the Defense Department, "Ashton B. Carter served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense from October 2011 to December 2013. Previously, Dr. Carter served as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from April 2009 until October 2011. As Under Secretary, Dr. Carter led the Department's efforts to accelerate the fulfillment of urgent operational needs; increase the Department's buying power; and strengthen the nation's defense against emerging threats."
Dr. Carter has been on the Clements Center's Statecraft Board of Reference since its founding in 2013.
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Clements Center and King's College London host conference on "Grand Strategy"
The Clements Center and the War Studies Department at King's College London hosted the second in an annual series of conferences jointly sponsored by the two organizations. This year's conference was titled "Grand Strategy and the Anglo-American World View: A Century of the Special Relationship" took place at King's College London on November 13-15.
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 Religion and National Security in an Era of Instability
The Clements Center and The Trinity Forum hosted an evening conversation with Dr. Mary Habeck on "God & Jihad: How ISIS and Al Qa'ida are Transforming the Middle East" at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, December 2. Clements Associate Director Dr. Paul D. Miller was the respondent.
This event was the second in a four part series titled "God & Geopolitics: Religion and National Security in an Era of Instability." The first talk featured Professor William Inboden on September 25th.
Mary Habeck is a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a Senior Fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). She is also a Professor in Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIC), where she teaches on military history and strategic thought.
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 Associate Director publishes Rand reports
Associate Director Paul D. Miller has published "Getting to Negotiations in Syria: The Shadow of the Future and the Syrian Civil War" and co-authored "Improving Strategic Competence: Lessons from 13 Years of War" for the Rand Corporation.
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National Security Fellow publishes in Journal of Strategic Studies
In an article for the Journal of Strategic Studies, National Security Fellow Celeste Ward Gventer reviews Douglas Porch's Counterinsurgency: Exposing the Myths of the New Way of War (Cambridge Press 2013) and Colonel Gian Gentile's Wrong Turn: America's Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency (The New Press 2013).
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Postdoctoral Fellow to teach "Military History to 1640" in Spring 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Steele Brand will teach a course in the spring for UT's Department of History. The class surveys the military history of the Near Eastern and Western worlds from the beginnings of recorded history (~3100 BC) through the Reformation (~AD 1650). It begins by studying human conflict in the ancient Near East. It then transitions to warfare in the classical world, which culminated in Rome’s seemingly unstoppable legions. The course then traces the military ascendancy of Islam and the response of the crusades before concluding with the so-called “wars of religion.”
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 This week in diplomatic and military history
The Clements Center’s This Week in Diplomatic and Military History column began in October 2014 under the inspiration of the Undergraduate Fellows Director, Dr. Steele Brand. Dr. Brand supervises the column, but it is managed, edited, and produced by three fellows: Sarah Fischer, the managing editor, and editors David Edwards and Jake Saltzman. The weekly column highlights a historical event for each week of the year ranging from Frederick the Great to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The column will expand in the spring to cover an even broader chronological and geographical range of historical events with an impact on the present day. The articles produced by the Undergraduate Fellows demonstrate the students' dedication to a principal theme of the Clements Center: history matters and we should all be aware of its insights for modern diplomatic and military issues.
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 As 2014 comes to a close, the Clements Center reflects back on the year with great pride at all of its accomplishments. As we look forward to 2015, we have a full slate of activities and programs that would not be possible without your generous support. Please consider making a contribution to the Clements Center as part of your end of year giving.
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