Speaker gives War College lesson to Horizons Unlimited

U.S. Army Col. Dave Luders speaks to members of Horizons Unlimited Monday afternoon. Luders talked about the military attention to China and India. (Cliff Williams / The Outlook)

U.S. Army Col. Dave Luders tried to get the capacity crowd at Monday’s Horizons meeting in the Alexander City Board of Education conference room to shift their focus beyond the current crisis in the Middle East – primarily ISIS, Syria and the refugee crisis that the region is creating in Europe – to the emerging world where our military attention will likely be focused on China and India.

But Luders, an instructor of strategy at Air University’s Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, first the took the group back in time, when American troop numbers (Luders limited his numbers primarily to the Army) were large and the U.S. was intent on nation-building in countries where it hoped to establish democracies.