Mr. Duncan is Director of the Institute for Homeland Security Studies, National Defense University. He is former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. He delivered this lecture to FPRI’s conference on the citizen soldier, December 6, 2004.
The views expressed are those of Mr. Duncan alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of any agency of the U.S. government.
On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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