Contact: Ralph Derickson

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 10, 2005) -- Lt. Col. Tom Ruby, a University of Kentucky graduate and assistant professor at the Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, in the William T. Young Library auditorium. Ruby, who headed a U.S. Department of Defense team in Iraq last fall, will discuss “The View from Baghdad: Political and Military Considerations for the U.S. in Iraq.”

Ruby served as intelligence flight commander/executive officer at Misawa Air Base in Japan and chief of Counterair Doctrine, Air Force Doctrine Center at Maxwell AFB, from 1998 to 1999, and co-authored a case study for United States European Command on the joint planning process leading to Operation Allied Force. Ruby received his doctorate in political science from UK in 2004. At the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, he instructs courses in aerospace operations, joint campaign planning, morality in warfare, and a capstone joint planning and execution exercise.

Iraq’s first democratic election since 1958 is scheduled Jan. 30.