Lieutenant Langdon Ogburn ’21, Infantry

A Philosophy and French double major from North Carolina, Langdon earned a Marshall Scholarship. He was a force of nature in XH 415 this fall, producing a paper on the 2003 UN Mission in Liberia that is likely publishable. Like his debate partner AnnMarie Moolenaar (see below), he was co-deputy Cadet-in-Charge of the Joint Service Academies Mass Atrocity Prevention Symposium (JSAMAPS) in 2018 and co-Cadet-in-Charge for two years since. He was a CHGS intern at the Army War College in the summer of 2019 when he worked on Operation Odyssey Dawn, the US/NATO responsibility-to-protect-based intervention in Libya in 2011. Last summer he contributed to a revision of the digital case study of LTG (R) Roméo Dallaire, working with Dr. Geheran. In September 2021, he will attend King’s College London, where he will pursue an MA in Conflict, Development & Security and then complete a second Master’s in Public Policy. His intent is to gain a deep understanding of how to work with foreign governments to create effective military policy focused on conflict prevention. He has already begun his first Marshall project: creation of a US-UK mass atrocity prevention partnership, starting with junior officers, with the ultimate goal of “making mass atrocity prevention a cornerstone of UK-US relations in the 21^st century.” He is currently interning with the Fund for Peace, with CHGS support, and working on the FFP’s collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to build infrastructure within the regional body that would allow it to identify warning signs of potential conflict.