Speaker Biographies
November 9, 2005

Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at AEI and editor of Armed Forces Journal. He is the author of The Military We Need: The Defense Requirements of the Bush Doctrine (AEI Press, 2005), Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004); and AEI’s monthly National Security Outlook. In February 2005, he was appointed by Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) to a two-year term on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Before coming to AEI, he served as the director of strategic communications and initiatives at Lockheed Martin and as deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century. From 1995 to 1999, he was the policy group director, as well as a professional staff member, for the Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Donnelly has also been the executive director of The National Interest, editor of the Army Times, and deputy editor of Defense News.

Andrew Garfield is Director of Strategic Solutions at Lincoln Group, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and Deputy Director of the International Policy Institute at King’s College in London.  He has written and researched on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations for the United States Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.  He has also lectured at the Naval Postgraduate School and Defense Intelligence Agency.  He concluded his government service as a senior policy advisor in the U.K. Ministry of Defense. 

Frederick W. Kagan joined AEI in May 2005 as a resident scholar in defense and security policy studies. Previously he was an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He is the coauthor of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (St. Martin’s Press, 2000), as well as numerous articles on defense and foreign policy issues in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Weekly Standard, Policy Review, Commentary, Parameters, and elsewhere. He will come out with his book  Finding the Target (Encounter Books), an examination of military transformation, in early 2006.

Kalev Sepp is an assistant professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He coauthored an official study of U.S. Army special operations in the Afghanistan expedition and, most recently, has served in Iraq as a consultant on intelligence operations and theater strategy. He is a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer who served in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America for twenty-four years. He has direct experience in counterinsurgency, urban warfare, psychological operations and civil affairs, drug interdiction, interagency coordination, nuclear-chemical-biological defense, and strategy formulation. As an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy, he taught courses on insurgency and civil wars and military and international history. He was also a resident scholar at Harvard University and is a commentator on military affairs on National Public Radio. His current research interests include counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, unconventional warfare, special operations, and “small wars.”

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