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News Release
Office of News and Information
Johns Hopkins University
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Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2692
Phone: (410) 516-7160
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March 16, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Leslie Rice
lnr@jhu.edu
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A Look at the Military-Industrial Complex, A Talk
at Johns
Hopkins
John Rothrock, retired Air Force colonel and specialist in
21st-century strategic
issues, will present a lecture, "Your Tax Dollars and the
Military-Industrial (and
Congressional) Complex," at noon on Wednesday, March 31, in
Shriver Hall on the
Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St.,
in Baltimore.
Col. Rothrock will update the audience's understanding of this
powerful network of
Pentagon, industrial and Congressional interests. According to
Rothrock, this de
facto conglomerate, due substantially to its increased
Congressional dimension, is
much more ominous now in its workings than when President Dwight
D. Eisenhower
first warned of it nearly 40 years ago. Rothrock finds that it
thwarts the kind of military
reform necessary to protect American security in the coming
decades.
Retired in 1990, Rothrock spent most of his 21-year military
career in intelligence and
strategy in a variety of fields and Pentagon assignments
including command of overseas
intelligence units, staff officer in the National Reconnaissance
Office and Chief of
Intelligence Planning for the Air Force. His last military
assignment was as senior fellow
in strategy at the National Defense University, in Washington,
DC.
This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon Series presented by
the Johns Hopkins Office of Special Events . Admission is
free. For further
information,
call the Office of Special Events at 410-516-7157.
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