Date: Monday, March 26, 2012
Time: 5:15 P.M.
Place: Florida State University Alumni Center, 1030 W. Tennessee
St., Tallahassee, Florida

The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience is pleased to sponsor a public lecture by the noted historian, Colonel Conrad C. Crane (U.S. Army, Retired). In February 2003, Crane became the Director of the U.S. Army Military History Institute. Before accepting this position, Crane served with the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College from September 2000 to January 2003, where he held the General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. He also has held the General Hoyt S. Vandenberg Chair of Aerospace Studies at the War College. He joined SSI after his retirement from a 26-year military career that concluded with 9 years as Professor of History at the U.S. Military Academy.

Crane holds a B.S. from United States Military Academy (USMA) and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has authored or edited books and monographs on the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and has written and lectured widely on air power and land power issues. Before leaving SSI he coauthored a prewar study on Reconstructing Iraq that influenced Army planners and has attracted much attention from the media. He was the lead author for the new Army-USMC counterinsurgency manual that was released in December, 2006. For that effort he was named one of NEWSWEEK’s people to watch in 2007. He visited Iraq in November 2007 at the request of General David Petraeus to evaluate the new doctrine in action.

This public lecture is open to the general public. There is no admission charge, but an RSVP is welcome.

G. Kurt Piehler, Director
Institute on World War II and the Human Experience
Department of History
Florida State University
401 Bellamy Hall
113 Collegiate Loop
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2200
Telephone: (850) 644-9541
E: Mail: kpiehler@fsu.edu
Website: ww2.fsu.edu