Young Professionals: The Reality of Combat & the Myth of High Tech War
About The Event
‘In an era of drones and precision munitions, our understanding of modern warfare is increasingly divorced from the reality of those waging it. War is still a brutal endeavor … especially when fighting enemies like ISIS and Al-Qaeda who purposefully draw our forces into close combat in the challenging and dangerous urban tactical environment crowded with civilians’ – retired Lt. Colonel Geoffrey Corn.
How does the U.S. Military effectively and lawfully wage war on these new and ever changing battlefields?
About The Speaker
Geoffrey S. Corn is The Presidential Research Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law Houston. He served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an officer, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Corn’s teaching and scholarship focuses on the law of armed conflict, national security law, criminal law and procedure, and prosecutorial ethics. He has appeared as an expert witness at the Military Commission in Guantanamo, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and in federal court. Corn is the lead author of The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Perspective and The Laws of War and the War on Terror and National Security Law and Policy: A Student Treatise, and the co-author of Principles of Counter-Terrorism Law.
His Army career included service as the Army’s senior law of war expert advisor; Chief of International Law for US Army Europe; and Chief Prosecutor for the 101st Airborne Division. Corn earned is B.A. from Hartwick College, his J.D. with highest honors from George Washington University, his LLM as the distinguished graduate from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School. He is also a distinguished military graduate of U.S. Army Officer Candidate School, and a graduate of U.S. Army Command and General Staff Course.
**Light appetizers included.**