Seminar at Grove City College to focus on national security

GROVE CITY, Pa. -- "Shaping U.S. National Security in a Globalized World" will be the topic of the Army War College Current Affairs Panel when it meets Feb. 27 at Grove City College.
The free three-hour seminar is open to high school and college students and community members. It will run from 9 a.m. to noon in Sticht Lecture Hall of the college's Hall of Arts and Letters.
The program is being offered in conjunction with the Pittsburgh World Affairs Council and The Center for Vision & amp; Values at Grove City College.
Expert testimony
The seminar will feature six speakers offering candid exchanges on current events and their impact by national security. Team members are all senior officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel or colonel or their civilian equivalent with other government departments such as the Central Intelligence Agency or National Security Agency.
Each team member serves as an expert on national policy issues such as defense transformation, information warfare, international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international drug trafficking and other issues of current strategic importance.
The speakers include: Col. Mike Hoadley (panel leader) of the U.S. Army War College; Teddy Bryan, United States Agency for International Development; Col. Gregg Gross, U.S. Army; Lt. Col. Michael Jordan, U.S. Air Force; Lt. Col. Philip Skuta, U.S. Marine Corps; and Col. Paul Wood, U.S. Army.
The panel is being coordinated by Dr. Earl Tilford, Grove City College history professor and retiree from the U.S. Air Force. 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 future terrorist threats. He has authored books on the Vietnam War and co-edited a book on Operation Desert Storm.