March 29: Next steps against the Islamic State

Retired Gen. John R. Allen, President Obama's former special envoy to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will talk about what the next steps in the U.S. and global strategy against the Islamic State should be. He will deliver the 2015-16 Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 29, at Korn Convocation Hall.

Allen, a retired U.S. Marine Corps four-star general and former commander of the NATO Forces in Afghanistan, is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence.

Established in 1980, the Bernard Brodie Distinguished Lecture on the Conditions of Peace celebrates the memory of Bernard Brodie as an eminent scholar and teacher. This lecture series provides a special forum for dignitaries and scholars of politics, strategy, warfare, and peace to present their views to the UCLA community and the public.

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