Former CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman will discuss U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan during a Great Decisions lecture at noon March 2 in McDaniel Lounge at McDaniel College.

The lecture is one of an eight-week continuing education program of the Foreign Policy Association hosted by the College’s Communications and Marketing Office. Goodman’s lecture is free and open to the public.

Goodman has more than 30 years of experience in the CIA, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and the Department of Defense. From 1966 until 1990 he was division chief and senior analyst at the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs.

Currently he is a senior fellow and director of the National Security Program at the Center for International Policy. An adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, Goodman is a former professor of International Security Studies and chairman of the International Relations Department at the National War College. He spoke on campus last December on reform of the U.S. intelligence community.

Mel Goodman co-authored or authored six books, including “The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion,” “Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk” and just this year “The Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.”

Developed by the Foreign Policy Association in 1954, the Great Decisions program is the longest standing and largest grassroots world affairs educational program of its kind. Now in its sixth year at McDaniel College, this program is designed to encourage discussion of global issues.