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Military Fellows:
During each academic year, The ISSP staff also includes a number of military officers. Every year, the U.S. armed services send distinguished field grade officers who attend Fletcher in lieu of a war college or other senior-level educational institution. The fellows take part in the various classroom and outside-the-classroom activities of the ISSP. These officers attend Fletcher seminars and lectures, as well as participate actively in ISSP educational activities, including serving as guest lecturers. This provides Fletcher students with essential practical insights. During the course of their fellowship, they are also required to complete a research paper on contemporary defense issues.
These fellows are separate from the several military students who come to Fletcher as degree candidates for the MA, MALD, and Ph.D. We have degree candidates from each of the military services as well as the U.S. Coast Guard.
Annually, ISSP hosts two National Guard Senor Service College Fellows, two Army Reserve Senior Service College Research Fellows, one Air Force National Defense Fellow, and one Army Senior Service College Research Fellow.
Of all the various groups that make up the Fletcher student enrollment, the military students are the single largest element. Furthermore, even when the size of the U.S. military was reduced in the decade after the Cold War the services continued to send at least as many officers to Fletcher as they had in the previous decade. This reflects the important contribution that ISSP continues to make to the education of our future military leaders as well as our high visibility and prestige within the Armed Services.
Fellows for academic year 2007-2008:
COL Richard J. Anderson, USA »
COL (s) Jose E. Cepeda, USAR »
LtCol Stephen L. Davis, USAF »