Gen. Wesley Clark, former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe to speak at Hiram College
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Gen. Wesley Clark, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe from 1997-2000, will be speaking Nov. 3 at Hiram College.
Clark, hosted by Hiram’s Garfield Center for Public Leadership, will talk about how the ongoing war in Ukraine may affect the size and role of NATO, Russia's standing as a world power, and the future of European security.
The event is from 5-7 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Kennedy Center Ballroom located at 11730 Garfield Road. Seats can be reserved by RSVPing to the symposium on Hiram College's events page. It is free and open to everyone.
Clark retired from the U.S. Army after 38 years of service, ultimately achieving the rank of four-star general.
He graduated first in his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and earned three degrees from the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
His final assignment as supreme allied commander in Europe was leading Operation Allied Force, NATO's 78-day aerial bombing campaign against Yugoslavia during the war in Kosovo. Backed by ground invasion planning and diplomacy, the operation stopped Yugoslavia's ethnic cleansing of Albanians and played a part in ending the Kosovo War.
Clark has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters, a Silver Star, Bronze Star and a purple heart, among other myriad decorations.
He now serves as CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates.
For more information or to register, contact Kathy Luschek, associate director of the Garfield Institute, at (330) 569-6118, or luschekk@hiram.edu.
Contact reporter Derek Kreider at DKreider@Gannett.com
This article originally appeared on Record-Courier: Former NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Clark to speak at Hiram College
