McNair Paper 59, Right Makes Might:  Freedom and Power in the Information Age, About the Author, May 1998

David C. Gompert is Vice President of the RAND Corporation and director of its National Defense Research Institute. He wrote this monograph while serving as Distinguished Research Professor in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University.

From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Gompert served on the National Security Council staff as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs. He has held a number of positions within the Department of State, including Deputy Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1982-83), Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (1981-82), Deputy Assistant Secretary for Politico-Military Affairs (1977-81), and Special Assistant to the Secretary (1973-75).

Mr. Gompert worked in the private sector from 1983 to 1990. At UNISYS (1989-90), he was President of the Systems Management Group and Vice President, Corporate Development. At AT&T (1983-88), he was Vice President, Civil Agency Sales and Programs, and Director, International Market Planning.

The McNair Papers are published at Fort Lesley J. McNair, home of National Defense University. An Army installation since 1794, the post was named in honor of Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair in 1948. McNair, known as "Educator of the Army" and trainer of some three million troops, was about to take command of Allied Ground Forces in Europe under General Eisenhower, when he was killed in combat in Normandy on July 25, 1944.

The following is a complete listing of McNair Papers. For information on availability of specific titles, contact NDU Press.

1. Joseph P. Lorenz, Egypt and the New Arab Coalition, February 1989.

2. John E. Endicott, Grand Strategy and the Pacific Region, May 1989.

3. Eugene V. Rostow, President, Prime Minister, or Constitutional Monarch? October 1989.

4. Howard G. DeWolf, SDI and Arms Control, November 1989.

5. Martin C. Libicki, What Makes Industries Strategic, November 1989.

6. Melvin A. Goodman, Gorbachev and Soviet Policy in the Third World, February 1990.

7. John Van Oudenaren, "The Tradition of Change in Soviet Foreign Policy," and Francis Conte, "Two Schools of Soviet Diplomacy," in Understanding Soviet Foreign Policy, April 1990.

8. Max G. Manwaring and Court Prisk, A Strategic View of Insurgencies: Insights from El Salvador, May 1990.

9. Steven R. Linke, Managing Crises in Defense Industry: The PEPCON and Avtex Cases, June 1990.

10. Christine M. Helms, Arabism and Islam: Stateless Nations and Nationless States, September 1990.

11. Ralph A. Cossa, Iran: Soviet Interests, US Concerns, July 1990.

12. Ewan Jamieson, Friend or Ally? A Question for New Zealand, May 1991.

13. Richard J. Dunn III, From Gettysburg to the Gulf and Beyond: Coping with Revolutionary Technological Change in Land Warfare, March 1992.

14. Ted Greenwood, U.S. and NATO Force Structure and Military Operations in the Mediterranean, June 1993.

15. Oscar W. Clyatt, Jr., Bulgaria's Quest for Security After the Cold War, February 1993.

16. William C. Bodie, Moscow's "Near Abroad": Security Policy in Post-Soviet Europe, June 1993.

17. William H. Lewis (ed.), Military Implications of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, June 1993.

18. Sterling D. Sessions and Carl R. Jones, Interoperability: A Desert Storm Case Study, July 1993.

19. Eugene V. Rostow, Should Article 43 of the United Nations Charter Be Raised From the Dead? July 1993

20. William T. Johnsen and Thomas Durell-Young; Jeffrey Simon; Daniel N. Nelson; William C. Bodie, and James McCarthy, European Security Toward the Year 2000, August 1993.

21. Edwin R. Carlisle, ed., Developing Battlefield Technologies in the 1990s, August 1993.

22. Patrick Clawson, How Has Saddam Hussein Survived? Economic Sanctions, 1990B93, August 1993.

23. Jeffrey Simon, Czechoslovakia's "Velvet Divorce," Visegrad Cohesion, and European Fault Lines, October 1993.

24. Eugene V. Rostow, The Future of Palestine, November 1993.

25. William H. Lewis, John Mackinlay, John G. Ruggie, and Sir Brian Urquhart, Peacekeeping: The Way Ahead? November 1993.

26. Edward Marks and William Lewis, Triage for Failing States, January 1994.

27. Gregory D. Foster, In Search of a Post-Cold War Security Structure, February 1994.

28. Martin C. Libicki, The Mesh and the Net: Speculations on Armed Conflict in a Time of Free Silicon, March 1994.

29. Patrick Clawson, ed., Iran's Strategic Intentions and Capabilities, April 1994.

30. James W. Morrison, Vladimir Zhirinovskiy: An Assessment of a Russian Ultra-Nationalist, April 1994.

31. Patrick M. Cronin and Michael J. Green, Redefining the U.S.-Japan Alliance: Tokyo's National Defense Program, November 1994.

32. Scott W. Conrad, Moving the Force: Desert Storm and Beyond, December 1994.

33. John N. Petrie, American Neutrality in the 20th Century: The Impossible Dream, January 1995.

34. James H. Brusstar and Ellen Jones, The Russian Military's Role in Politics, January 1995.

35. S. Nelson Drew, NATO from Berlin to Bosnia: Trans-Atlantic Security in Transition, January 1995.

36. Karl W. Eikenberry, Explaining and Influencing Chinese Arms Transfers, February 1995.

37. William W. Mendel and David G. Bradford, Interagency Cooperation: A Regional Model for Overseas Operations, March 1995.

38. Robbin Laird, French Security Policy in Transition: Dynamics of Continuity and Change, March 1995.

39. Jeffrey Simon, Central European Civil-Military Relations and NATO Expansion, April 1995.

40. James W. Morrison, NATO Expansion and Alternative Future Security Alignments in Europe, April 1995.

41. Barry R. Schneider, Radical Responses to Radical Regimes: Evaluating Preemptive Counter-Proliferation, May 1995.

42. John Jaworsky, Ukraine: Stability and Instability, July 1995.

43. Ronald Tiersky, The Mitterrand Legacy and the Future of French Security Policy, August 1995.

44. John A. Cope, International Military Education and Training: An Assessment, October 1995.

45. Elli Lieberman, Deterrence Theory: Success or Failure in Arab- Israeli Wars? October 1995.

46. Stanley R. Sloan, NATO's Future: Beyond Collective Defense, December 1995.

47. M. E. Ahrari, The New Great Game in Muslim Central Asia, January 1996.

48. Mark J. Roberts, Khomeini's Incorporation of the Iranian Miilitary, January 1996.

49. Steven Philip Kramer and Irene Kyriakopoulos, Trouble in Paradise? Europe in the 21st Century, March 1996.

50. Alan L. Gropman, Mobilizing U.S. Industry in World War II: Myth and Reality, August 1996.

51. Ralph A. Cossa, The Major Powers in Northeast Asian Security, September 1996.

52. Barry D. Watts, Clausewitzian Friction and Future War, October 1996.

53. Donna Lee Van Cott, Defiant Again: Indigenous Peoples and Latin American Security, October 1996.

54. Ivelaw L. Griffith, Caribbean Security on the Eve of the 21st Century, September 1996.

55. Roman Popadiuk, American-Ukrainian Nuclear Relations, October 1996.

56. Simon V. Mayall, Turkey: Thwarted Ambition, January 1997.

57. David E. Johnson, Modern U.S. Civil-Military Relations: Wielding the Terrible Swift Sword, July 1997.

58. William H. Lewis and Edward Marks, Searching for Partners: Regional Organizations and Peace Operations, May 1998.

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