BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 14.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16011104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20150721T191500Z DESCRIPTION:JHU/APL Colloquium - www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium\n\nTOPIC: MARTY RDOM\, VICTORY\, AND EXPEDIENCY IN THE DECISIONMAKING OF THE ISLAMIC REPUB LIC OF IRAN (IRI)\n\nSPEAKER: Michael Eisenstadt\, The Washington Institu te for Near East Policy\n\nThe Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) is an unconv entional adversary that requires unconventional approaches in strategy and policy. These approaches should take into account the country's sophisti cated culture\, the regime's religious-ideological orientation\, and the c ountry's modern history. And they must account for the paradoxes that ofte n underpin Iranian conduct\, and its unique approach to statecraft\, strat egy\, and the use of force. These include: a propensity for risk-avoidance \, offset by a tendency to overreach\; an approach to deterrence and warfi ghting that relies on all instruments of national power\; a preference for soft power approaches to statecraft and strategy that emphasize informati onal activities as the decisive line of effort\, and\; a "way of war" that emphases delay\, indirection (as expressed by its use of proxies)\, and p atient\, incremental progress. While not a single-factor explanation\, th e strategic culture approach provides unique insights into the logic of Ir anian national security decision-making.\n\n\nMichael Eisenstadt is Kahn F ellow\, and director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The W ashington Institute for Near East Policy. A specialist in Persian Gulf and Arab-Israeli security affairs\, he has published widely on irregular and conventional warfare and nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East. His most recent publications include: Deterring an Iranian Nuclear Breako ut (Washington Institute\, 2015)\; Defeating ISIS: A Strategy for a Resili ent Adversary and an Intractable Conflict (Washington Institute\, 2014)\; An Enhanced Train-and-Equip Program for the Moderate Syrian Opposition: A Key Element of U.S. Policy Toward Syria and Iraq (with Jeffrey White\, the Washington Institute\, 2014)\; What Iran's Chemical Past Tells Us About i ts Nuclear Future (Washington Institute\, 2014)\; Beyond Worst Case Analys is: Iran's Likely Responses to an Israeli Preventive Strike (with Michael Knights\, The Washington Institute\, 2012)\; The Strategic Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran: Operational and Policy Implications (Marine Corp s University\, 2011)\, and\; Iran's Influence in Iraq: Countering Tehran's Whole-of-Government Approach (with Michael Knights and Ahmed Ali\, The Wa shington Institute\, 2011). Prior to joining the Institute in 1989\, Mr. E isenstadt worked as a military analyst with the U.S. government. Mr. Eisen stadt served for twenty-six years as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve b efore retiring in 2010. His military service included stints in Iraq\; Isr ael\, the West Bank\, and Jordan\; Turkey\; the Office of the Secretary of Defense\; the Joint Staff\, and\; U.S. Central Command headquarters. In 1 992\, he took a leave of absence from the Institute to work on the U.S. Ai r Force Gulf War Air Power Survey. Mr. Eisenstadt earned an MA in Arab Stu dies from Georgetown University and has traveled widely in the Middle East .\n DTEND;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20150814T150000 DTSTAMP:20150721T191500Z DTSTART;TZID="Eastern Standard Time":20150814T140000 LAST-MODIFIED:20150721T191500Z LOCATION:Parsons Auditorium\, 1-S124 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Colloquium - Michael Eisenstadt\, The Washington Ins titute for Near East Policy TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000206C0BF2E3B6CF01000000000000000 010000000F3666F241567FA47A2A5FAD002A2C9BD X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n\n
\n\nJHU/APL Colloquium - www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium
\n\nTOPIC:  \; MARTYRDOM\, VICTORY\ , AND EXPEDIENCY IN THE DECISIONMAKING OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN (IR I)
\n\nSPEAKER: \; Michael Eisenstadt\, The Washington Institute for Near East Po licy
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< FONT FACE="Arial">Michael Eisenstadt< /SPAN> is Kahn Fellow\, and director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. A specialist in Persian Gu lf and Arab-Israeli security affairs\, he has published widely on irregula r and conventional warfare and nuclear weapons proliferation in the Middle East. His most recent publications include: Deterring an Iranian Nuclear Breakout (Washington Institute\, 2015)\; Defeating ISIS: A Strategy for a Resilient Adversary and an Intractable Conflict (Washington Institute\, 20 14)\; An Enhanced Train-and-Equip Program for the Moderate Syrian Oppositi on: A Key Element of U.S. Policy Toward Syria and Iraq (with Jeffrey White \, the Washington Institute\, 2014)\; What Iran's Chemical Past Tells Us A bout its Nuclear Future (Washington Institute\, 2014)\; Beyond Worst Case Analysis: Iran's Likely Responses to an Israeli Preventive Strike (with Mi chael Knights\, The Washington Institute\, 2012)\; The Strategic Culture o f the Islamic Republic of Iran: Operational and Policy Implications (Marin e Corps University\, 2011)\, and\; Iran's Influence in Iraq: Countering Te hran's Whole-of-Government Approach (with Michael Knights and Ahmed Ali\, The Washington Institute\, 2011). Prior to joining the Institute in 1989\, Mr. Eisenstadt worked as a military analyst with the U.S. government. Mr. Eisenstadt served for twenty-six years as an officer in the U.S. Army Res erve before retiring in 2010. His military service included stints in Iraq \; Israel\, the West Bank\, and Jordan\; Turkey\; the Office of the Secret ary of Defense\; the Joint Staff\, and\; U.S. Central Command headquarters . In 1992\, he took a leave of absence from the Institute to work on the U .S. Air Force Gulf War Air Power Survey. Mr. Eisenstadt earned an MA in Ar ab Studies from Georgetown University and has traveled widely in the Middl e East.< SPAN LANG="en-us">
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