Dr. Jason Dempsey is one of the nation’s leading experts on military demographics and civilian-military relations. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned his doctorate in political science from Columbia University. Between tours to Afghanistan in 2009 and 2012, Jason spent two years in the White House, where he initially served as the First Lady’s White House Fellow and was put on point to take the broad concept of military family support and turn it into Joining Forces, the First Lady and Dr. Biden’s comprehensive national initiative to mobilize all sectors of society to support our service members and their families. He served for two deployments to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain and the 101st Airborne Divisions.
Documentary Screening of "America and the Taliban" & Panel Discussion
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Sep 7 2023
WHEN:
Sep 7, 2023 at 6:00pm
WHERE:
Ballroom
CONTACT INFO:
Cecily Scott Martin
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Join the NPC Events Team for a screening of FRONTLINE's "America and the Taliban Part 3" followed by a panel discussion on the series and where things stand today.
Watch the first two parts of the series here.
"How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part three of this epic three-part investigation traces the missteps and consequences."
Ambassador Roya Rahmani is a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. She also serves as a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, as well as a senior fellow for international security at the New America Foundation. She is a former Afghan diplomat with nearly two decades of experience working with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and multilateral institutions. Rahmani was the first woman to serve as Afghan ambassador to the United States, first Afghan woman ambassador to Indonesia, and served as the first director general for regional cooperation at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Martin Smith is an award-winning reporter and producer for FRONTLINE who has covered the world: from revolution in Central America and the fall of communism in Russia, to the rise of Al Qaeda and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the inside story of the global financial meltdown. He was among the first journalists to investigate Col. Oliver North’s clandestine Contra arms network and one of the first western reporters to investigate the emergence of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. Smith has won every major award in broadcast television, including four duPont Columbia Gold Batons, five Peabody Awards, and eight Emmys. In 2014 he received the John Chancellor Award, presented by Columbia University to a reporter with courage and integrity for cumulative professional accomplishments.