Dr. Robert M. Cassidy

Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.

Additionally, Dr. Cassidy's second book, entitled "Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror", was published earlier this year by Stanford University Press.

Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.

Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.
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Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.

Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.
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Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.
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Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.
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Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.

Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.
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Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.
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Fellow Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy at the 2008 USMA Conference

West Point, New York, June 5th to June 7th, 2008 -- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cassidy,Ph.D., a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (CADS), served on a panel to discuss the changing national security environment and its implications on Military Professionals at the United States Military Academy (USMA) conference.Hosted during the senior conference "The Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict", this year's event addressed the challenges that significantly affect the development of the Army's professional officer corps in a strategic era marked by new challenges and opportunities.The event served as a forum for distinguished representatives from government, academia, business, the think-tank community, and the joint military services-to discuss topics related to how future strategic environments will influence the knowledge bases,competencies, and values necessary for the Army's officer's corps.Dr. Cassidy discussed the the implications for the army profession in a current and future national security environment characterized by a preponderance of irregular wars.His talk specifically addressed military roles, adaptation, lesson learning, and the notion of moral rectitude in what he described as a protracted war of ideas.

U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection, July 06, by Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy

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Robert M. Cassidy has served in leadership and staff positions in the 4th Infantry Division, the 8th Infantry Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, the Third Army, and the Seventh Army.He is a graduate of the French Joint Defense College and he has a Ph.D. in International Security Studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

"Cassidy provides a wide ranging analysis of how national culture, defense development, and military organizational culture affects a military's ability to wage counterinsurgency.Those unfamiliar with American military history will find his discussions of American performance in Indian and hemispheric conflicts edifying... However, the greatest strength of Cassidy's book is that isn't American-centric...I recommend it for any serious student of small wars theory,and anyone interested in understanding more about today's irregular wars.",Rethinking Security

"In a very timely, interesting, and thought-provoking book, Robert Cassidy argues for re-conceptualizing what was first called the "global war on terrorism: then the "global struggle against violent extremism," and currently, the long war.
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"Colonel Robert Cassidy is at the cutting edge of a new generation of US military officers who boldly contemplate global security issues, undaunted by the caveats of Summers and Weinburger and unencumbered by the baggage of Vietnam.In Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror, Cassidy bravely repudiates the military obsession for technology and firepower and instead methodically explores Russian, British and US military cultures for more complex lessons of success.

Robert M. Cassidy, Ph.D.

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LTC Cassidy is a battalion commander in the U.S. Army.He has served in leadership and staff positions in the 4th Infantry Division, the 8th Infantry Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, the Third Army and the Seventh Army.

He is a graduate of the Collège Interarmées de Défense (French Joint Defense College) and holds a Ph.D. in International Security Studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.He previously obtained Master's degrees in international relations and diplomacy from Boston University and the Fletcher School.His articles on counterinsurgency, military culture and stability operations have appeared in Parameters, Military Review, Small Wars and Insurgencies and the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs.

Dr. Cassidy previously served as a special assistant to the Commanding General of U.S. Army forces in Europe, as a brigade operations officer in the 4th Infantry Division during the first part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as the Squadron Executive Officer of 1-10 Cavalry in the 4th Infantry Division, as a Troop Commander in 1-17 Cavalry of the 82nd Airborne Division and as an assistant professor of international relations at the United States Military Academy.He currently serves with U.S. Army soldiers in Atlanta and in Kuwait in support of the ongoing wars in the United States Central Command's Area of Responsibility.

Selected Publications

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Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy has served in leadership and staff positions in the 4th Infantry Division, the 8th Infantry Division, the 82d Airborne Division, Third Army, and Seventh Army.He is a graduate of the French Joint Defense College and has a Ph.D. in international security studies from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Robert M. Cassidy, Special Assistant, USAREUR Commanding General's Initiatives Group.The Mission is a current history of the US military's role in peace operations, small wars, and unconventional warfare in the 1990s and the early part of this decade.The author, Dana Priest, is a Washington Post reporter and a recipient of the 2001 Gerald R. Ford Award for Distinguished Defense Reporting.This is Priest's first book, and it delves into subjects she has covered veryarticles.php?title=The+Mission%3A+Waging+War+and+Keeping+Peace+with+Ame
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