Date : 11/8/2016 9:21:42 PM
From : "joshua krasna"
To : "Haim Waxman"
Subject : Fwd: Re: The INDC visit to Washington - next steps

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Subject: Re: The INDC visit to Washington - next steps
From: Rameez Abbas <rameez.abbas@gc.ndu.edu>
To: joshua krasna <drjkrasna@hotmail.com>
CC:

Hi Josh,

Sorry to take so long. I finally have some movement on this now.

A May 15th visit would work well. The dean at CISA, Dr. Charles Cushman, thinks the visit is a great idea and would like me to move forward in helping to coordinate. He advised, though, that since our own strategic exercise starts the next day, the faculty and students have their hands full that week already, so it would be best to plan for a half day rather than a full day. 

Your visit would consist of a visit with the NDU President, perhaps a tour, a brief about service cultures (or some other topic related to a deeper look into the US military, not just a canned presentation) and then a panel of faculty and policy folks from outside NDU on a political/ strategic issue to be determined. My hope is that after the panel, we can have break out sessions in smaller groups for discussion, led by a combination of your faculty and ours, but I am not sure yet if we have the space/ people to make that happen.

My next step is getting in touch with the NDU international visits person and finding out the procedure for getting you a formal invitation and on the president's schedule, and other details. So I will write back once I know more on that front.

Based on what I find out from them about the level of central NDU participation, I'll be able to draw up an expected schedule of the timing of the panels.

Talk soon-

- Rameez


On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:11 AM, joshua krasna <drjkrasna@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Rameez,

                                                                  

I hope the holidays were enjoyable.

 

I would like to consult with you regarding the next step in moving our visit forward.  I think that if the 15th or 16th of May are possible, we should have our Commandant, MG Heymann, send a letter formally informing your leadership of our visit and requesting the meetings. 

 

If you agree, to whom do you think this letter should be addressed? Are there any other steps we can take from our side to help move things forward?

 

Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you.  We have a student this year who is writing his annual paper on the Druze – I told him when he has progressed a bit he should talk to you.

 

Sincerely,

Josh Krasna

 

From: joshua krasna [mailto:drjkrasna@hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 12:04 AM
To: Rameez Abbas <rameez.abbas@gc.ndu.edu>
Subject: Re: The INDC visit to Washington

 

Thanks for the quick reply! We can probably move to the 15th if that helps.

 

Josh

 

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From: Rameez Abbas

Date: Fri, Oct 7, 2016 7:07 PM

To: joshua krasna;

Cc: waxmanhaim@gmail.com;INDC - Matan Or;

Subject:Re: The INDC visit to Washington

 

Hello Josh,

 

Thanks for the email and nice to hear from you! I look forward to your visit. 

 

I will speak to our dean about this next week, and get back to you. My initial thought is that our entire college has a strategic exercise planned for May 16-18. It involves all the students, and typically also most of the faculty members. That is not to say that we could not host an INDC visit on that day, facilitate the formal reception at NDU, and line up panels. But it is likely that student-to-student interactions would be limited.

 

But let me run it by our leadership, and I'll get back to you with more details soon.

 

Shabbat Shalom,


Rameez

 

 

 

 

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:32 PM, joshua krasna <drjkrasna@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Rameez (don't be put off by the new email, it's Josh Krasna),

 

I hope you and your family had a nice Rosh Hashana and are enjoying the New Year.  I also hope that the research you did in Israel regarding the Druze is bearing fruit.

 

I am very happy to tell you that we have a tentative date for our visit to NDU – 16 May 2017.

 

As Haim and I discussed with you, we would very much appreciate – in addition to the formal visit to the NDU –  having a joint conference or seminar, ideally regarding US defense strategy or policy regarding a Middle East issue, for your and our students and staff, and featuring experts and practitioners from NDU, DoD and Washington policy communities.  The subject can be Syria, creating strategy for fighting non-state actors, the challenge of developing policies regarding operations in failed states, the renewed challenge of great power intervention in regional conflict in the Middle East, or any other issue you and the NDU faculty and research bodies might suggest. 

 

Ideally, such a seminar day will include lectures, panels, mixed small group discussions etc.  

                                                                                                                                             

Our faculty will of course be willing to make presentations and lead discussions as well.

 

I hope that you will be able help put together the seminar.  As you know, we have been in contact in past with the NWC (Dr. Laura Manning Johnson, Col. Adam Oler and Jim Periard), who may be able to help from the NWC side.

 

I know this is a long lead time, but I know as well that these kind of things take a long time to put together. 

 

Looking forward to hearing from you. 

 

Sincerely, Dr. Joshua Krasna

 

 



 

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Rameez Abbas, PhD

Assistant Professor

College of International Security Affairs

National Defense University




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Rameez Abbas, PhD
Assistant Professor
College of International Security Affairs
National Defense University
202-685-8633