Monday, 11 Sep. 2017: owing to the hurricane's disrupting our speaker's flight to Montgomery, Dr. Mark Conversino will stand in for Amb. Jack Matlock, “Russia, Then and Now”

Contact Dahdee Bullen at awacBullen@gmail.com (334-567-0953).

Dr. Mark J. Conversino is Deputy Commandant and Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS), Air University (AU), Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama. As an award-winning professor, he is responsible for creating warrior-scholars of airpower. Dr. Conversino joined the faculty of the Air War College (AWC) as a civilian following his retirement from the Air Force and subsequently joined the faculty of SAASS in 2015. He specializes in military and airpower history and theory, Russian history and the politics of the former Soviet Union.

His book is Fighting With the Soviets: The Failure of Operation FRANTIC, 1944-1945, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

AWAC members already know him as a lively and witty speaker!