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Charles Neimeyer is a full professor of national security affairs with the National Security Decision Making Department (NSMD) at the U.S. Naval War College. He is appointed as the Forrest Sherman Chair of Public Diplomacy. He maintains expertise in U.S. history, international relations, contemporary governmental issues and operations, national security affairs, homeland defense, and world history.
Dr. Neimeyer also has experience with senior executive governmental leadership. He has developed a specialty in NATO affairs, Russia and Ukraine, and Pacific Rim issues. He is expert in strategic planning and leadership of non-profit organizations. He actively participates in planning decisions regarding professional military education at NSDM and has substantial knowledge of emerging Department of Defense issues and affairs.

The Role of the Military in a Changing World:
U.S. Foreign Policy and National Military Strategy
in the 21st Century
Charles Neimeyer

Wednesday-Sunday October 31-November 4, 2001
This seminar took place
on the University of Central Oklahoma campus
This seminar is about the changing economic, political and military environments affecting US national security today. Accordingly, the seminar will focus on the international, domestic and national security systems that drive US policymaking in the post cold-war era. We will discuss emerging trends in the international and domestic political environments. In particular, we will discuss issues surrounding the issue of national missile defense, military operations other than war, space, international terrorism, and warfare in the 21st century.

We will also discuss the new emerging strategy for US foreign policy. Does the United States shape or simply react to current events? What should be the new military and foreign policy for the United States in the future and how do we get there from here? The seminar will examine both the domestic and economic components of US foreign policy and national military strategy. Finally, we will look at emerging international issues such as globalization, space, technology and regional instability as they relate to US foreign and national military policy.

The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied by OSLEP)

A New Structure for National Security Policy Planning, Stephen A. Cambone, Center for Strategic and International Studies Press, 1998.

Future Warfare, Robert H. Scales, Jr., U.S. Army War College.

Terrorism: An Introduction, Jonathan R. White, West/Wadsworth Publishing.

Organizing for National Security, Douglas T. Stuart, ed., Strategic Studies Institute.

Reading Packet