On 1 November the Serbian Alumni Association returned to the Central Military Club where they first met and held their Founding Assembly in the autumn of 2004. This time they met to launch a new alumni activity, the Marshall Center Club. Over 30 graduates and their spouses along with invited guests from the US and German embassies gathered to exchange views, ideas and contacts. New Association publications were presented and made available to those attending.
Meeting at least on a quarterly basis, the Club hopes to establish a social forum for discussing and planning future activities and making the latest publications available for distribution. The next meeting is scheduled for January when they plan to also invite other institutions such as the Atlantic Council and the Center for Civil-Military Cooperation to attend.
Since its initial assembly, the Serbian Alumni Association has successfully conducted nine security roundtables, addressing topics including crisis management, national security strategy and most recently, energy security. They have also embarked on an ambitious project to translate into Serbian all the Marshall Center Papers and Occasional Papers, which provide current research and analysis on security and defense issues for scholars, government officials and military officers. The Alumni Association has already translated a number of books on counterterrorism under the series title “Contemporary World” and has initiated a new series, “Strategy and Force Planning.”
For more information about the Serbian Alumni Association or the next Marshall Center Club meeting, contact LTC Milan Tepsic.
German Defense Attaché, LTC Helmut Klawonn, looks over the alumni graduate book as LTC Rolf Kaessner, Military and Finance Adviser to Serbian Minister of Defense looks on.
