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; arid 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).