U.S. Gen. Eikenberry to speak at Baker Institute on role of NATO

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Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, deputy chairman of the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium, will speak Dec. 10 on “NATO: The Balkans, Afghanistan and Beyond” at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

The lecture begins at 6 p.m. in James A. Baker III Hall’s Doré Commons on the Rice University campus, 6100 Main St. For directions, go to http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html.

Eikenberry’s previous assignment was commanding general of the Combined Forces Command – Afghanistan. His operational assignments included service as commander and staff officer with mechanized, light, airborne and ranger infantry units in the continental United States, Hawaii, Korea and Italy.

Eikenberry has served in various strategy, policy and political-military posts, including director for strategic planning and policy for U.S. Pacific Command; U.S. security coordinator and chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Kabul, Afghanistan; assistant Army and later defense attaché at the United States Embassy in Beijing; senior country director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; and deputy director for strategy, plans and policy on the Army staff.