Contact: Kenneth Billings
"NATO, Relic or Relevant?" will be the question posed by former Deputy Defense Adviser for the U.S. Mission to NATO, Clarence H. Juhl, when he addresses the Executive Lecture Forum of Jackson at 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, July 22, at the Fairview Inn.
Juhl is visiting Mississippi's capital city as a guest of the Janos Radvanyi Chair in International Security Studies at Mississippi State University.
His career spans more than 45 years of combined military and government civilian service, having last served the U.S. Mission, NATO, in Brussels, Belgium. In this role from 1996 through 2007, he was the Deputy to the Secretary of Defense Representative Europe and the Deputy Defense Adviser, U.S. Mission, NATO.
Throughout his career, Juhl played a key role in the development of the Partnership for Peace Program and NATO enlargement, and in NATO defense capabilities programs of the late 1990s, the 1991 and 1999 Alliance Strategic Concepts, the Prague Summit decisions on capabilities, and the NATO Response Force.
Though Executive Lecture Forum programs are not open to the general public, interested members of the news media always are welcome. To ensure adequate seating, reporters planning to attend are asked to contact Tan Tsai, research associate at the MSU International Security Studies center, at 662-325-4062 or 325-8406 as soon as possible.
For more information about Mississippi State University, see http://www.msstate.edu/.