Lieutenant Colonel Kurt H. Meppen is a career Army Foreign Area Officer specializing in Central and South Asia. He will discuss major powers’ competing and complementary national security strategies in Central Asia as well as the strategies of Central Asian states.

LTC Meppen served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as the Central Asia policy director from 2002 to 2005. In 2001, he was the U.S. Army fellow at the George C. Marshall European Center for Strategic Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. From 1998 to 2001, Meppen served as the U.S. defense attaché to Turkmenistan. LTC Meppen’s most recent work is a key chapter in the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute’s Anatomy of a Crisis: U.S. Uzbekistan Relations, 2001-2005, a piece which deconstructs the bilateral defense relationship culminating in the U.S. departure from Khanabad Air Base.

LTC Meppen holds a master of science in strategic intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College as well as a B.A. in political science from the University of Idaho.

Speakers

• Lieutenant Colonel Kurt H. Meppen
  Senior Fellow | U.S. Institute of Peace

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