ROBERT M. CASSIDY, U.S. Army, is a Special Assistant with the U.S. Army Europe Commanding General's Initiatives Group. He is a graduate of the French Joint Defense College. He has served as a squadron executive officer for a heavy division cavalry squadron, as assistant professor of international relations at West Point, and as a cavalry troop commander in the 82nd Airborne Division. He has a Ph.D. in international security from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.