60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
& ANNUAL GLOBAL FORUM
FUNDRAISER
PRESENTED BY
ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSED; TICKETS AVAILABLE AT DOOR STARTING AT 5 PM
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
5 PM- Reception (Hors D'oeuvres & Cash Bar; Tom Ricks' Books on sale from Gibson's)
6 PM- Program
~Welcome- Kathryn Muirhead, President
~Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster
~ Global Leadership Award Presentation
~Celebrating the Past; Sustaining the Future
~Introduction: Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern NH University
~Keynote Address; Q&A- Tom Ricks
"Why Don't We Win Our Wars Anymore?"
Dining Center, Southern New Hampshire University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester NH 03106
Featuring
THOMAS E. RICKS
Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist, New York Times Bestselling Author & the Nation's Leading Writer on the U.S. Military and the Changing Face of Global Warfare
Honoring
AMBASSADOR JIM SMITH &
DAWN WIVELL
with the Global Leadership Award
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ABOUT THOMAS E. RICKS
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks is the nation’s leading writer on the U.S. military and the changing face of global warfare.
He is currently a Senior Advisor to the New America Foundation’s National Security Program and a contributing editor for Foreign Policy. His blog on ForeignPolicy.com, “The Best Defense,” was recognized as the best military blog by Military Reporters and Editors and named as the 2010 best blog of the year by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
Tom Ricks is the author of Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003-05, which was a number one New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. Ricks has reported on military and defense issues for both The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Ricks was a reporter with The Wall Street Journal for 17 years, during which he covered military issues until the end of 1999. He also covered the U.S. military for The Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Throughout this career, Ricks has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2000, he was part of a Wall Street Journal team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for a series of articles on how the U.S. military might change to meet the new demands of the 21st century. In 2002, Ricks was part of a Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting about the beginning of the U.S. counteroffensive against terrorism.
Ricks wrote a second book on the war in Iraq, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military in Iraq, 2006-08, which was published in 2009. His book, Making the Corps, won the Washington Monthly’s “Political Book of the Year” award in 2007. Ricks’ most recent book is The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today, and he is currently writing a book about Churchill, Orwell and the 20th Century.
Tom Ricks was born in Beverly, Massachusetts and grew up in New York and Afghanistan. He graduated from Yale University.