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Flournoy, Crocker, and more

The CNAS annual policy hoedown is on the afternoon June 10. Michele Flournoy, one of the top candidates to succeed Gates as defense secretary next spring, is the keynoter. I also am looking forward to hearing Ryan Crocker, a great American diplomat, and a major force in the tactical turnaround in Iraq in 2007. All ...

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The CNAS annual policy hoedown is on the afternoon June 10. Michele Flournoy, one of the top candidates to succeed Gates as defense secretary next spring, is the keynoter. I also am looking forward to hearing Ryan Crocker, a great American diplomat, and a major force in the tactical turnaround in Iraq in 2007.

The CNAS annual policy hoedown is on the afternoon June 10. Michele Flournoy, one of the top candidates to succeed Gates as defense secretary next spring, is the keynoter. I also am looking forward to hearing Ryan Crocker, a great American diplomat, and a major force in the tactical turnaround in Iraq in 2007.

All the info is here.

Also, my CNAS colleague Kristin Lord and an aardvark pal of hers have written a review of how President Obama’s global engagement strategy is working out for him.

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military from 1991 to 2008 for the Wall Street Journal and then the Washington Post. He can be reached at ricksblogcomment@gmail.com. Twitter: @tomricks1

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