Grand Strategy Program AIAD

Dr. Scott Silverstone and Cadets Joseph Asemah, Donia Nichols, Natalie Hales, and John Rogacki, are in the Grand Strategy Program Academic Individual Advanced Development (AIAD) focusing on the strategic history of NATO and its current challenges. During the first week they visited NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where they spent time with Mr. Dave Johnson, a Russia expert with NATO's International Staff, and LTC Kevin Steele, with the US Mission to NATO, right before the NATO summit meeting. The team then travelled to Fulda and Geisa, Germany to spend five days on the former inner-German border to study the Cold War German divide at the Point Alpha Foundation, a research organization supporting the continuing study of the Cold War in Germany and preserving the history of American forces that supported the defense of West Germany. The team held seminars with the foundation's research staff, toured the former border observation posts and garrisons maintained by the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, and spent two days touring the Cold War border with LTC(R) Bradley Gavlin, who was on duty with the 11th ACR at Observation Post Alpha the night the Berlin Wall was opened.