Col. Rothrock will update the audience's understanding of this powerful network of Pentagon, industrial and Congressional interests. According to Rothrock, this de facto conglomerate, due substantially to its increased Congressional dimension, is much more ominous now in its workings than when President Dwight D. Eisenhower first warned of it nearly 40 years ago. Rothrock finds that it thwarts the kind of military reform necessary to protect American security in the coming decades. Retired in 1990, Rothrock spent most of his 21-year military career in intelligence and strategy in a variety of fields and Pentagon assignments including command of overseas intelligence units, staff officer in the National Reconnaissance Office and Chief of Intelligence Planning for the Air Force. This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon Series presented by the Johns Hopkins Office of Special Events .
Admission is free.