Our Mission
 

The Ridgway Center believes that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. From this starting point, the Center investigates and analyzes past and emerging security problems. It seeks to generate original research and intellectual capital to address the vast array of problems that the US and the international community face.

  

The Ridgway Center at the University of Pittsburgh

The Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to generating scholarship that educates the next generation of security analysts. Its purpose is to produce original and impartial analysis that informs policymakers who must confront diverse challenges to state and human security.  

Matthew B. Ridgway

Matthew B. Ridgway, whose name the center bears, is best remembered for salvaging the United Nation's effort during the Korean War. His military career began in 1917, when the Army commissioned him as a Second Lieutenant immediately after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. By 1930, Ridgway had become an advisor to the Governor General of the Philippines, and within a few years, he rose to the rank of Assistant Chief of Staff of the 4th Army. Read more.


 

“MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK?”: Report on the U.S. Army War College Annual Strategy Conference

04/23/2012


After a long decade at the center of the U.S. military missions, with ground forces engaged in major operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Army is uncertain about its place in the nation’s grand strategy. Fortunately for the Army, it seems as though as the specifics of that grand strategy have a certain degree of uncertainty as well. Such was the tenor of the Annual Strategy Conference, held at Carlisle Barracks April 10-12, 2012. Read more.

Gormley Quoted In Today's NY Times Article

04/23/2012

GSPIA Senior Lecturer Dennis Gormley quoted in today's New York Times article: Iranians Say They Took Secret Data From Drone. Read more.

Gormley Publishes: Cruise Missiles and NATO Missile Defense: Under the Radar?

04/17/2012

The Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (Ifri) in Paris has just published Dennis M. Gormley's "Cruise Missiles and NATO Missile Defense: Under the Radar?" as Proliferation Papers No. 41, Spring 2012.  In light of NATO's decision to create a territorial missile defense system covering not only military forces but population centers as well, Gormley's paper argues that NATO is taking too myopic a view of the missile threat. He offers affordable ways of dealing with such shortcomings.

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