WAC Annual Excursion 2025: The U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College
April 10 @ 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading presents: A Tale of Two Colleges. The U.S. Army War College and Dickinson College. An in-depth tour of The War College.
APRIL 10, 2025, ITINERARY
8:30 a.m.: Tour bus departs from Walmart, Wyomissing.
10: a.m.: Arrive at Dickerson.
11:30 a.m.: Depart for luncheon at Fiddler’s Bar & Grill.
1:30 p.m.: Depart Fiddler’s for the War College.
4:00 p.m.: Depart War College.
Cost
Members: $85.00
Non-members: $100.00
Ambassadors: $75.00 Spouse at member’s rate
Students: $45.00
Includes transportation, breakfast, luncheon, programs, snacks.
Receipt of payment confirms your reservation.
Seating is limited. Reservations required by March 31, 2025.
Please send checks to:
WAC of Greater Reading
P.O. Box 6301
Reading, PA 19610
610-375-7880
Dickinson College
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
Andrew T. Wolff
Dickinson College
wolffan@dickinson.edu
Dr. Andrew Wolff is an associate professor of Political Science and International Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Politics and European History from Washington and Lee University (1995), a master’s degree in European Studies from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (2003), and a doctorate in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS (2010).
Dr. Wolff has been a Fulbright NATO Security Studies scholar hosted by the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium (Fall 2021) and an associate fellow at Johns Hopkins University SAIS – Europe in Bologna, Italy (2020-2021). From 2018 to 2020, he served as the Dickinson College Director of European Studies at the K. Robert Nilsson Center for European Studies in Bologna, Italy. Prior to pursuing graduate degrees, Dr. Wolff worked as a legal staff assistant for Senator Paul D. Coverdell (Georgia) in the United States Senate (1996-1997), and he taught high school English in Prague, Czech Republic (1997-1999).
Dr. Wolff’s primary research interests are NATO enlargement, European security issues, transatlantic relations, geopolitics, and American foreign policy. He has published articles in International Affairs, Contemporary Security Policy, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, and Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
About Dickinson College
Founded in 1783 by Benjamin Rush
Slogan: Freedom is made safe through character and learning Enrollment: 2,134
Vision: To be a leader in global education
The U.S. Army War College
1:30 p.m. — 4:00 p.m.
The US Army War College educates and develops leaders for service at the strategic level while advancing knowledge in the global application of Land power.
The purpose of US Army War College at this time in our Nation’s history is to produce graduates from all our courses who are skilled critical thinkers and complex problem solvers in the global application of Landpower.Concurrently, it is our duty to the Army to also act as a “Think Factory “for Commanders and Civilian Leaders at the strategic level worldwide and routinely engage in discourse and debate on ground forces’ role in achieving national security objectives. We will accomplish this dual purpose along the following lines of effort:
• Provide high quality Professional Military Education at the strategic level that further develops accomplished officers and civilians, both graduates and faculty, who depart our institution armed with the right balance of theory, history, practice, and communication skills to clearly articulate options for solutions to complex strategic problems and immediately be of value to any organization.
• Aggressively Conduct Research, Publish, Engage in Discourse, and Wargame with the entire faculty, staff, students and fellows; generate ideas and test concepts as the Army’s intellectual broken field runner for the application of Land power at the strategic level.
• Conduct Strategic Leader Development through agile, constantly reviewed and updated courses of instruction and other products that advance strategic leadership skills and senior leader abilities in the Profession of Arms.
• Attract, Recruit, and Retain a high quality faculty and staff.