September 7, 2004
Speaker Biographies
Eliot Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University and founding director of the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies there. He came to SAIS in 1990 having taught at Harvard University and at the Naval War College (Department of Strategy) and following service on the policy planning staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He has written books and articles on a variety of military and national security-related subjects, including, most recently, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (Free Press, 2002). He has written or coauthored other books, including Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War, and directed the U.S. Air Force’s official multi-volume study of the Gulf War, the Gulf War Air Power Survey. He has an extensive background in executive education, including programs for general officers in the American armed forces and senior executives in the private sector. He served as an intelligence officer in the United States Army Reserve and is a member of the Defense Policy Board of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and other governmental advisory groups.
Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy at AEI. He is the author of Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, July 2004) and AEI’s National Security Outlook. 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.
General John M. Keane, U.S. Army (retired), served as vice chief of staff for the U.S. Army from 1999 until his retirement in October 2003. During his four years in this job, he managed operations of more than 1.5 million soldiers and civilians in over 120 countries and an annual budget in excess of $110 billion. Before his appointment, General Keane served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command and was a career paratrooper who commanded at every level. General Keane is a combat veteran, having served as a platoon leader and company commander in Vietnam. His Army awards and decorations include two Defense Distinguished Service Medals, the Silver Star, five Legions of Merit, and the Bronze Star Medal. Since his retirement from the Army, General Keane has been the president of GSI, LLC, senior adviser to Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Co., and adviser to the chairman and CEO of URS Corporation. He is a director of METLIFE, Inc., and General Dynamics Corporation and serves as a member of the Department of Defense Policy Board. He is also a military contributor and analyst for ABC News.
Colonel Bob Killebrew, U.S. Army (retired), is a private consultant in national defense issues. He is a retired Army infantry colonel with service in Special Forces and airborne units and taught national and military strategy at the Army War College. While on active duty, he inaugurated the “Army after Next” project that became the Army transformation wargame series. Since retirement, he has served on the Hart-Rudman Commission on national defense in the 21st century as well as other Defense Department and private studies of national defense issues, and has consulted for the military services and defense industries. He has written extensively in a variety of publications on emerging defense issues, most recently in the Washington Post on the political future of Islamic radicalism.
Michael O’Hanlon is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy and budgeting, American foreign policy, and homeland security. He is also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. Among his latest books are Neither Star Wars Nor Sanctuary: Constraining the Military Uses of Space (2004); Crisis on the Korean Peninsula (2003), coauthored with Mike Mochizuki; and Expanding Global Military Capacity for Humanitarian Intervention (2003); Defending America: The Case for National Missile Defense (2001), coauthored with James Lindsay; and Technological Change and the Future of Warfare (2000). He also recently released an updated version of his latest defense strategy and budget book, Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration (2002). He has published articles and op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Washington Quarterly, Survival, International Security, and several others. He has appeared on the major television networks more than 100 times since September 11, 2001, and also appears frequently on the CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and FOX networks. Before beginning his work at Brookings in 1994, he was an analyst at the Congressional Budget Office from 1989 to 1994. He also worked previously at the Institute for Defense Analyses.
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