Front & Center with John Callaway: The Future of U.S. Intelligences in the War on Terror

Should we mount a national initiative to expand language and cultural studies to upgrade our understanding of the world? How can we improve military intelligence so that our peace keeping and nation building missions can be safer and more successful? Can the intelligence and operational policies used in World War II and the Cold War inform our approach to challenges we face today or are these same policies clouding our ability to wage an effective war on terror? Did the success of technology in the Gulf War give us false confidence in our ability to create a democratic Iraq? John Callaway and his guests explored these and related issues.

Richard E. Friedman was the President and Chair, National Strategy Forum, Inc., Chair of the Advisory Committee of American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and Chair of the Illinois Supreme Court Legal Historical Society. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1952 to 1953 (Lt.) From 1964 to 1969, he served as First Assistant Attorney General, State of Illinois . He has also served on special assignment for the U.S. Department of State in Romania, on the U.S. Army Science Board Ballistic Missile Defense Committee, as a consultant to the government of Republic of Georgia for legislation regarding national security and economic matters, and has participated in strategic planning conferences for Central Asian Republics. He serves as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs National Security Studies Program. He received an AB from Grinnell College in 1951; and his JD from Northwestern School of Law in 1956.

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and in 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.

James Schwoch is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University in both the Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Department of Communication Studies. Prior to joining Northwestern in 1989, Schwoch was on the faculty of Marquette University. From 1997-98, Schwoch was the Leonard Marks Fellow in International Communications Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. Schwoch teaches and conducts research in international studies, telecommunications and media policy, diplomatic history and international relations, and research methodologies. His books include Writing Media Histories: Nordic Views (1997), Media Knowledge (1992), and The American Radio Industry and Its Latin American Activities, 1900-1939 (1990). He wrote a book-length study about American foreign policy regarding television and telecommunications during the Cold War. He received a BA in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin, a MA in Radio-Television-Film from Northwestern University, and a PhD in Radio-Television-Film from Northwestern University in 1985.