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Douglas J. Feith of Georgetown University will deliver the December Bradley Lecture.

Douglas J. Feith became under secretary of defense for policy in July 2001, where he was at the forefront of decisions about the course of the war on terrorism. In his extensively documented forthcoming book, War and Decision, he uncovers the thinking--and interagency debates--that gave rise to America’s strategy in the war. From the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attack through the campaign to overthrow the Taliban and decision-making on the war in Iraq, the book reveals the discussions among President George W. Bush and his top advisers--in Situation Room debates, and in memos and briefings--to define our national purposes, identify threats, and advance American interests. The written record is stunningly at odds with the “first draft” of history as it has appeared in numerous press stories and books to date. In the December Bradley Lecture, Mr. Feith will discuss the key strategic ideas developed by the Bush administration after 9/11, and he will assess administration successes and failures.

Douglas J. Feith is a professor of national security policy at Georgetown University. He is a Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. As under secretary of defense for policy from July 2001 until August 2005, he helped devise the U.S. government’s strategy for the war on terrorism and contributed to policymaking for the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns. His memoir of his Pentagon work on the war on terrorism, War and Decision, will be published by HarperCollins in March 2008.

Mr. Feith was previously the managing attorney of the Washington, D.C., law firm Feith & Zell, P.C. In the Reagan administration, Mr. Feith worked at the White House as a Middle East specialist for the National Security Council and then served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for negotiations policy.