Dr. Edward L. (Ted) Warner
III
Dr. Edward L. (Ted) Warner III is a
Senior Defense Analyst at RAND in Washington D.C. Dr. Warner is responsible for conducting studies on various U.S.
defense and national security policy issues.
He also works with the defense ministries in Europe and the New
Independent States on a wide range of contemporary defense issues.
Dr. Warner was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements from May 1993 until November 1997 and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction from November 1997 until October 2000. In these capacities, he advised the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) and the Secretary of Defense on national security strategy, as well as the forces, their readiness, and the contingency plans necessary to implement that strategy. Dr. Warner also oversaw on behalf of the Secretary the efforts of the Services and the Joint Forces Command to develop and experiment with new concepts and capabilities to carry out military operations. He was responsible for Department of Defense policy for countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; policy issues associated with US nuclear forces and their employment as well as ballistic missile defense; arms control; and defense relations with Russia and the other New Independent States that emerged following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Dr. Warner provided policy input to the military requirements process and to the Defense Acquisition Board, and was the Assistant Chairman of the Defense Policy Board. Since his retirement from government service, Dr. Warner has been appointed a member of the Defense Policy Board.
Prior
to his service as Assistant Secretary of Defense, Dr. Warner retired from the
Air Force after twenty years service that included assignments as head of the
Staff Group, Office of the Chief of Staff; assistant air attaché in the US
Embassy Moscow, and as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the US Air Force
Academy. From 1982 to 1993, Dr. Warner
was a senior defense analyst with the RAND Corporation in Washington, DC, where
he carried out research on American national security policy, the defense and
foreign policies of Russia and other successor states of the former Soviet
Union, and East-West arms control issues.
Dr.
Warner is a graduate of the US Naval Academy (1962), and has a Ph.D. in
Politics from Princeton University (1975).
Dr. Warner was born in 1940 and raised in Okemos, Michigan. He is married to the former Pamela Melton
and has two daughters, Kelly Warner-King and Erika Warner.