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Special Forces Commander to Discuss
Iraq War Strategy at Pace Law School
Master Strategist Planned Counter-Insurgency Operations
WHITE PLAINS, NY– The master strategist who planned and
directed all U.S. Army Special Forces operations in Iraq will discuss
the war from a strategic perspective at Pace Law School on Wednesday,
October 5 at 7 p.m.
Major James A. Gavrilis, a U.S. Army Special Forces career officer,
master strategist and International Affairs Fellow at the Council on
Foreign Relations, will be the guest speaker at the public policy
series co-hosted by Pace Law School and the Westchester County
Business Journal.
The title of his lecture is “Understanding the War in Iraq: A
Theater-Strategic Perspective.” It will take place at the Judicial
Training Institute on the Law School campus, 78 North Broadway in
White Plains.
The series, which is free and open to the public, features
nationally renowned speakers and provides a forum for area residents
on both sides of the political aisle to hear contemporaries on
subjects ranging from the war in Iraq to government entitlements and
homeland security.
Major Gavrilis recently returned from his last tour in Iraq, where
he planned and executed multinational and multi-agency
counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency operations and commanded
special forces operations across Iraq. He served there from the
initiation of hostilities to major combat operations to the civil
administration that followed.
A veteran of many hostilities, Major Gavrilis has commanded the 3rd
and 5th Special Forces Groups (Airborne) in the U.S. Army
Special Operations Command. He served in Africa, the Balkans, and the
Middle East, specializing in training, peacekeeping and combat
operations.
An associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at
Georgetown University, he earned a BA in political science at
Pennsylvania State University and an MA in international studies at
Old Dominion University. He is a resident graduate of the U.S. Army
Command and General Staff College, where he earned master strategist
and joint planner designations.
Founded in 1976, Pace Law School is a New York Law School with a
suburban campus in White Plains, N.Y., twenty miles north of New York
City. Part of Pace University, the school offers the JD program for
full-time and part-time day and evening students. Its postgraduate
program includes the LLM and SJD degrees in Environmental Law and
an LLM in Comparative Legal Studies. Pace has one of the nation's
top-rated Environmental Law programs and its Clinical Education
program also is nationally ranked, offering clinics in domestic
violence prosecution, environmental law, securities arbitration,
criminal justice, and disability rights. www.law.pace.edu
Pace is a comprehensive, independent university with campuses in
New York City, Pleasantville and White Plains, N.Y., and a Hudson Valley
Center at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor, N.Y. More than
14,000 students are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, and
professional degree programs in the Dyson College of Arts and
Sciences, Lubin School of Business, School of Computer Science and
Information Systems, School of Education, Lienhard School of Nursing
and Pace Law School. www.pace.edu
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