Joint Chiefs Chairman at RAND
Last Saturday, June 12, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was scheduled to speak at RAND, in Santa Monica.Mullen was scheduled to deliver the commencement address to the 63 Ph.D and masters students graduating from the think tank's Pardee Rand Graduate School.Video from the remarks is said to be downloadable here. Depending on who's doing the defining, think tanks can be considered part university, part consultancy, and in some cases, for better or for worse, part advocacy group.RAND's in-house public policy grad school, with RAND staff as professors, marks the tank as a one-of-a-kind research institution.Related: Here's a March, 2010 opinion piece by a Washington, D.C.-based RAND expert about Mullen.And: TTLA posts about commencement addresses this year and last.And: More commencement addresses. RAND Corporation photo copyright and courtesy Brett Van Ort.