DUNN TO LEAD TALK ON NATO

Jackson native Dr. Keith Dunn, director of Defense Plans Division at the U.S. Mission to NATO, will present the Harold Holmes Dugger Lecture Oct. 10 on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Dr. Dunn is a 1969 graduate and valedictorian of Southeast.

Sponsored by the department of history, the Harold Holmes Dugger Lecture will address "Europe's New Security Environment: Continuing Roles for the U.S. and NATO." The lecture is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the University Center Party Room. Cost of the dinner is $7.

Dunn is responsible for Department of Defense related policy planning, conventional forces planning and nuclear planning within the U.S. Mission to NATO. He is the U.S. representative to NATO's Defense Review Committee which examines the defense proposals of Alliance members to determine if they are financially, economically and politically consistent with NATO's military requirements.

Dunn served in several military intelligence positions in the U.S. Army from 1973 to 1977 when he entered the federal government as a career civil servant. From 1977 to 1985, he served as a political scientist and senior policy analyst in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Penn.

Dunn was a senior fellow at the Strategic Concepts Development Center at National Defense University in Washington D.C., from 1985 to 1990. In that post, he advised the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on joint military strategy for U.S. forces.

From January to September 1990, Dunn served as the assistant for conventional forces policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. In the position, he was responsible for advising and assisting the assistant secretary of defense ISP and the undersecretary of defense for policy in developing current and future conventional force policy initiatives for U.S. and NATO forces.

Dunn, a Jackson High School graduate, received his bachelor's degree in political science from Southeast in 1969 and his master's and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Missouri in 1971 and 1973 respectively. He has published two books, four edited volumes and more than 35 scholarly articles in national and international journals on U.S. defense strategy, U.S.-Soviet relations and NATO.

He has won several awards including Distinguished Faculty Writing Awards from the National Defense University and the U.S. Army War College Foundation. He also received the Humanitarian Service Medal from the U.S. Army.

Dunn is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Dunn of Jackson. Dunn and his wife, Terry Kelly, are the parents of a son and daughter.

For dinner reservations, send payment to Department of History, Social Science building, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 63701.