Inside the Pentagon
At the Dawn of the War on Terrorism

Douglas J. Feith

Dinner and Talk

Tuesday, April 15 at 6:30 p.m.
 
Kenwood Country Club
5601 River Road, Bethesda, MD

Directions and Parking | Registration | Questions?

Douglas J. Feith, Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2001 to 2005, was an integral player in the planning of the Bush Administration's war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In his book, "War and Decision" [HarperCollins, March 25, 2008], Feith offers the first account of the administration's actions as told by a Pentagon insider. In his discussion, he draws extensively on previously unseen memos among Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Cheney, President Bush and others, and on his own detailed meeting notes.

Mr. Feith's duties included managing the Defense Department's international relations and representing the Department in interagency policy making. He helped plan the worldwide changes in the U.S. defense posture, develop new U.S. strategic partnerships with India and Pakistan, promote NATO enlargement and reform, and craft U.S. policy toward China. Mr. Feith advised President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on the range of national security issues, including the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, the counter-insurgency in Colombia and Palestinian-Israeli peace diplomacy.

Before President Bush appointed him in July 2001, Mr. Feith was for fifteen years the managing attorney of the Washington, D.C. law firm Feith & Zell, P.C. In the Reagan Administration, he worked at the White House as a Middle East specialist for the National Security Council and then served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. After each of his Pentagon tours, Mr. Feith received the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award.
Mr. Feith holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from the Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College. He is currently Professor and Distinguished Practitioner in National Security Policy at Georgetown University. He is a Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING

This event will be held at the Kenwood Country Club, 5601 River Road, Bethesda, MD. From the Beltway (I-495), use Exit 39, River Road. Go toward Washington; continue 2.8 miles. At the Springfield Drive stop light, turn left into Kenwood CC. There is plenty of free parking in the lots to the left and rear of the clubhouse. From DC, take Massachusetts Ave. NW to Westmoreland Circle at the DC line, turn right onto Western Avenue, turn left onto River Road, proceed to 5601 and turn right into Kenwood Club. Using mass transit take the Metro Red Line to Friendship Heights, then take the nine minute ride on the T2 Metrobus that leaves the station at 5:35, 5:57, and 6:15. For more specific driving directions, visit maps.google.com.

REGISTRATION

The price of this event is $42 for members and their guests, and $57 for non-members.

Register online at https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/user/Register.dyn?eventID=21801&groupID=153. Or register by mail using the coupon below. Club Partners may register via e-mail to cjo@alum.mit.edu. Registrations must be received by April 10.

QUESTIONS?

The event chair is Hannah Elson hfelson@alum.mit.edu. For registration questions please contact Cynthia O’Connell at cjo@alum.mit.edu or 202-657-2188.

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