GROVE CITY COLLEGE Professor to attend terrorism seminar in Israel

Information gathered in the program will be used in classes here next fall.
GROVE CITY, Pa. -- A Grove City College history professor will participate in a seminar on terrorism in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dr. Earl Tilford has been accepted for admission to the Academic Fellows Program of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and will take part in the seminar, which is May 29 to June 8.
Tilford, who joined the Grove City College faculty in 2001, will integrate the seminar teachings into his National Security course offered to students in the fall.
The seminar, "Defending Democracy, Defeating Terrorism," features an intensive, 10-day course on terrorism and the threat it poses to democratic societies. The program is taught in conjunction with the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
What's featured
The course of study takes place in the classroom and in the field and will feature lectures by academics, diplomats, military and intelligence officials as well as politicians from Israel, Jordan, India, Turkey and the United States.
It also features visits to military bases, border zones and other security installations to learn the practical side of deterring terrorist attacks.
Tilford, retired from the U.S. Air Force, served as an associate professor of history at Troy State University in Montgomery and professor of military history at the U.S. Air Force Air Command and Staff College.
In 1993, he became director of research at the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute in Carlisle, Pa., where he worked on a project that looked at possible terrorist threats. He has written three books on the Vietnam War and co-edited a book on Operation Desert Storm. He has lectured throughout the United States and abroad on the Vietnam War and, more recently, the future of armed conflict.