David
A. Ochmanek
David Ochmanek is a senior defense
analyst at the RAND Corporation. He has been associated with RAND from 1985 until 1993,
and again since 1995. While at RAND, he has worked on assessments of the capabilities of
U.S. conventional and strategic nuclear forces, arms control, defense planning, regional
security, and national security strategy. From 1993 until June 1995, he served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy.
Prior
to joining RAND, Ochmanek was a member of the Foreign Service of the United States,
serving from 1980 to 1985 in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, U.S. Embassy Bonn,
and the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. From 1973 to 1978, he was an officer in
the United States Air Force. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the United
States Air Force Academy in 1973 and a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton
University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1980.
Ochmanek
is the author of numerous publications, including:
To
Find and Not To Yield: How Information and Firepower Can Transform Theater Warfare (with
Ted Harshberger, et al), RAND, 1998.
"Rethinking
U.S. Defense Planning," in Survival,
Spring
1997 (with Zalmay Khalilzad).
Strategic
Appraisal 1997: Strategy and Defense Planning for the 21st Century (editor,
with Zalmay Khalilzad), RAND, 1997.
The
New Calculus: Analyzing Airpower's Changing Role in joint Theater Campaigns, RAND,
1993 (with C.J. Bowie, et al).
Next
Moves: An Arms Control Agenda for the 1990's, The
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1989 (with Edward L. Warner III).