STUART
E. JOHNSON
Dr. Johnson
has served in a variety of posts in the defense field with a focus on defense planning and
programming, and European security affairs. He
currently heads the RAND research team that focuses on European defense issues with an
accent on the future of US and allied military co-operation. He also leads RAND work with the MoDs of Hungary,
Poland, and Romania to develop a plan to restructure their armed forces in a configuration
that is appropriate to the new security environment in Central Europe. He is also a professor in the RAND Graduate
School.
Prior to
coming to RAND Dr. Johnson spent a year as the Senior Scientist in the Center for Naval
Warfare Studies at the Naval War College.
From 1988
through 1996, he served as Director of Research in the Institute for National Strategic
Studies at the National Defense University. There
he directed a program of national security studies that focused on regional security
issues and the growing impact of modern technology on military plans and operations.
During the
mid-1980s Dr. Johnson was head of the Systems Analysis Office at NATO Headquarters in
Brussels. He directed a multi-national staff
that analyzed the plans of the NATO nations to identify high-leverage initiatives they
could take to strengthen their contribution to the Alliance.
Dr. Johnson
served as Principal European Analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Program
Analysis and Evaluation) from 1977 through 1982.
Dr. Johnson
is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College, received a PhD from MIT, and spent a year
as a NATO post-doctoral fellow at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. He spent a year a the Brookings Institution as a
Senior Fellow where he wrote the book The Military Equation in Northeast Asia. Key publications include Dominant Battlespace
Knowledge, NDU Press, 1995 and “Beyond NATO, Complimentary Militaries”,
Orbis, Spring, 1993.
He was
recently elected to the faculty of the School of International and Public Affairs of
Columbia University where he teaches the graduate course “Defense Policy and Force
Planning”.
Dr. Johnson
speaks French and Dutch.