Speaker biographies
Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the co-editor, with Gary Schmitt, of Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007) and is also the author of The Military We Need (AEI Press, 2005), Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, 2004) and several other books. From 1995 to 1999, he was policy group director and a professional staff member for the Committee on Armed Services in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a former editor of Armed Forces Journal, Army Times and Defense News.
Frank Hoffman is a research fellow at the United States Marine Corps Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities, and an appointed member of the National Security Study Group with the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Mr. Hoffman is a former Marine Corps infantry officer and has served as director of the Strategic Studies Group for the Marine Corps Combat Development Command.
Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar in defense and security policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His most recent book is Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (Encounter Books, 2006). Previously an associate professor of military history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he is the author of The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805 (Da Capo, 2006) and coauthor of While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). A contributing editor at The Weekly Standard, he has also written numerous articles on defense and foreign policy issues for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Policy Review, Commentary, Parameters, and other periodicals.
Gary J. Schmitt is a resident scholar at AEI, where he is director of strategic studies. Prior to coming to AEI, he helped found and served as executive director of the Project for the New American Century, a Washington-based foreign and defense policy think tank. Previously, he was a member of the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and served as the committee’s minority staff director. He was appointed by President Reagan to the post of executive director of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House. Dr. Schmitt is the co-editor, with Thomas Donnelly, of Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007). He has written books and articles in a number of areas, including the American founding, the U.S. presidency, intelligence and national security affairs.
Loren Thompson is chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute, where he oversees security studies. He is a long-time advisor to high-tech companies, the federal government, and foundations.He has taught graduate-level courses for twenty years at Georgetown University in military strategy, new technology, and the media. During the 1980s, he was deputy director of Georgetown’s Security Studies Program, part of the university’s School of Foreign Service. He has also taught classes at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Thompson’s commentaries have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He has also been interviewed by such overseas media as The Economist, the Financial Times, and Al Jazeera.
Robert Work is a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, where he is an expert on defense strategy, defense transformation, and maritime affairs. He is the author of several monographs on naval transformation, the Littoral Combat Ship, future fleet platform architectures, and seabasing, and prepared a series of reports on future defense challenges. He has directed and analyzed several war games for the Office of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; contributed to Department of Defense studies on global basing and emerging military missions; and provided support for the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review. Mr. Work served in the United States Marine Corps for twenty-seven years, where he held a range of key command, leadership, and management positions.
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