and Kosovo. During his military career, Grange served as a Ranger, Green Beret, Aviator, Infantryman, and as a member of Delta Force. Assignments and conflicts took him to Vietnam, Korea, Grenada, Russia, Africa, former Warsaw Pact countries, Central and South America, and the Middle East to include the Gulf War. In addition to Grange’s duties at the foundation, he has been a national security analyst for CNN, WGN, and CLTV. Grange holds a bachelor’s of science degree from North Georgia College and a master’s of public service from Western Kentucky University.

John J. Mearsheimer
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University 's Center for

International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York , and in 2003 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980.

Captain Dan Moore
Captain Dan Moore, USN is the NROTC Chicago Commanding Officer and Professor of Naval Science responsible for two units and over 120 undergraduate students at Northwestern University and Illinois Institute of Technology.  A naval aviator who flew Navy jets (A-7s and FA-18s) for 25 years, his opportunity to serve included: the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Cold

War, Desert Storm, the Balkans, Operation Southern Watch in Iraq, and the Pentagon on 9/11.  He earned a BA in the History of the Middle East with Departmental Honors from Northwestern University and MAs in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College and International Relations from Salve Regina College.  He has received two "outstanding personal achievement awards" from the Association of Naval Aviation and U.S. Naval Institute Press for "the best article about naval aviation in any publication" for the years 1995 and 2001. 

Moderator

After a broadcast journalism career of 48 years, John Callaway is now engaged in writing, freelance broadcasting and speaking. The long-time host of Chicago Tonight on Chicago public television station WTTW Channel 11, Mr. Callaway is now host and senior editor for "Chicago Stories", a documentary and interview weekly program on WTTW. He has been honored with more than one hundred awards, including

the coveted Peabody Award and fifteen Emmys. A drop-out from Ohio Wesleyan University who hitchhiked to Chicago with 71 cents in his pocket in 1956, he is the recipient of nine honorary doctorate degrees, including those from Northwestern University and the John Marshall College of Law. Mr. Callaway was also the founding Director of the William Benton Fellowships in Broadcast Journalism Program at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the bestselling book of essays, "The Thing of It Is" and has written and performed  two one-man shows, "John Callaway Tonight", and "John Callaway 's Life is...Maintenance" at the Pegasus Theater in Chicago.