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The Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) provides a forum for national security scholars to come together to explore the most pressing issues in national security policy.
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Notre Dame undergraduates studying international security have access to interdisciplinary courses and exciting opportunities that will prepare them for careers in policy and academia.
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The Notre Dame International Security Center was established in 2008 to provide a forum where leading scholars in national security studies from Notre Dame and elsewhere could come together to explore some of the most pressing issues in national security policy.
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NDISC invites leaders and prominent scholars to speak on a wide range of international security related topics. These events provide a forum for policy experts, outside academics, and Notre Dame faculty and students to present and discuss their work.Our experts in the news
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The Washington Post
A U.S. Marine lost his dog tag in the Vietnam war. A tour group just found it.
February 24, 2023
Cpl. Larry Hughes lost his military dog tag while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam nearly 60 years ago.
The story of how Larry Hughes’s family received his dog tag on Feb. 17 was four months in the making and involves former U.S. senator from Virginia Jim Webb, 30 college students and a Vietnamese rice paddy farmer.
Fox News
Vietnam veteran's dog tag found in rice field, returned to family 57 years later: 'Means the world'
February 18, 2023
In October 2022, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb and Notre Dame Professor Michael Desch took a group of students to visit the province. While exploring near an airstrip used by the U.S. military, a villager approached them and said he had six dog tags that were found plowing rice fields over the years.
