June 10, 2005
Speaker Biographies
Thomas Donnelly is resident fellow in defense and security policy studies at AEI. 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 Army Times, and deputy editor of Defense News.
Daniel Goure is a vice president with the Lexington Institute, a nonprofit public-policy research organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. He is involved in a wide range of issues as part of the institute’s national security program. He has held senior positions in both the private sector and the U.S. government, most recently as a member of the 2001 Department of Defense transition team. He spent two years in the U.S. government as the director of the office of strategic competitiveness in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and also served as a senior analyst on national security and defense issues with the Center for Naval Analyses, Science Applications International Corporation, SRS Technologies, R&D Associates, and System Planning Corporation. Prior to joining the Lexington Institute, he was the deputy director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he was responsible for analyses of U.S. national security policy, the future of conflict and warfare, the information revolution, counter-proliferation, and defense industrial management. He directed analyses of emerging security issues with a special emphasis on U.S. military capabilities in the next century. He has consulted for the Departments of State, Defense, and Energy, and has taught or lectured at the Johns Hopkins University, the Foreign Service Institute, the National War College, the Naval War College, the Air War College, and the Inter-American Defense College. He is a well-known and respective presence in the national and international media, having been interviewed by the leading members of the media: CNN, Fox, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. He has also published extensively in over two dozen journals and periodicals, and is an NBC national security military analyst.
Michèle A. Flournoy is senior adviser in the CSIS International Security Program, where she works on a broad range of defense policy and international security issues. Previously, she was a distinguished research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU), where she founded and led the university's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) working group, which was chartered by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Prior to joining NDU, she was dual-hatted as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and threat reduction and deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy. She was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 1996, the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1998, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's Joint Distinguished Civilian Service Award in 2000. In addition to several edited volumes, Flournoy has published numerous articles and reports on a variety of international security issues. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Strategy Group, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Executive Board of Women in International Security. She is a member of the Defense Science Board, the USSTRATCOM Strategic Advisory Group, and a former member of the Defense Policy Board.
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 of 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.
Mike Vickers is director of strategic studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), an independent public policy research institute located in Washington, D.C. He is currently a senior adviser to the secretary of defense for the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review. From 1973 to 1986, he served as an Army Special Forces officer and CIA operations officer, with extensive operational and combat experience in Central America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Central Asia. During the mid-1980s, he was the principal strategist for the largest covert action program in the CIA’s history: the paramilitary operation that drove the Soviet army out of Afghanistan and played a major role in ending the Cold War. His Afghanistan experience is described in the New York Times bestseller and soon-to-be-released major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War. This spring he will complete his Ph.D. dissertation at Johns Hopkins on the structure of military revolutions. His most recent publication is The Revolution in War (CSBA, 2004). He has consulted extensively to the Pentagon on the global war on terrorism, the war in Iraq, and force transformation.
View Event Details
