DR. BARRY M. BLECHMAN 

Dr. Blechman is the founder of and President and CEO, DFI International, a Washington-based research, analysis, and consulting firm.  The DFI family of companies includes two operating units:  Among other services, DFI Corporate Services supports strategic business planning in the private sector, including market assessments, partner and competitor analyses, and advice on mergers and acquisitions.  Its clients include major aerospace, telecommunications, and information companies, as well as financial institutions.  DFI Government Practice conducts research for US government agencies on a variety of political/military, strategic, force structure, and operational issues.  Its clients include the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the military services, the Joint Staff, and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.  During the 1960s, he worked as an operations research analyst for the US Army and for the Center for Naval Analyses.   In 1971, he became a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he headed the defense analyses staff and co-authored Brookings’ annual analysis of the federal budget, Setting National Priorities.  In 1976, Dr. Blechman joined the Carter Administration transition planning staff at the Office of Management and Budget.  The next year, he was confirmed by the Senate as assistant director of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.  Among other assignments, he served as deputy chairman of the US delegation for negotiations on arms transfers and as head of the Agency’s policy planning staff.  After leaving the government, he was affiliated at various times with the Carnegie Endowment, the Roosevelt Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute. Dr. Blechman chairs the Henry L. Stimson Center, a non-profit research and educational organization, which he co-founded in 1989.  He also serves on the board of the Academy of Political Science.   His published works on defense issues include the widely respected study of politico-military operations, Force Without War, and the more recent, The Politics of National Defense.  He graduated from Queens College, earned a M.A. in political science from New York University, and received a PhD in international relations from Georgetown University.  He has taught at The Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, and the University of Michigan.  He has organized or served on numerous study groups and government commissions, most recently on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld.  He is currently a member of the Defense Policy Board and the Deterrence Concepts Analysis Group. 

DR. STEPHEN A. CAMBONE

Dr. Cambone was confirmed as Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in July 2001.  From January to July 2001, he served as The Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.  Prior to that, he was the Staff Director for the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization from July 2000 to January 2001.  Dr. Cambone was the Director of Research at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University from 1998 to 2000.  Before that, he was the Staff Director for the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, a Senior Fellow in Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 1993 to 1998, the Director for Strategic Defense Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1990 to 1993, the Deputy Director, Strategic Analysis, SRS Technologies (Washington Operations) from 1986 to 1990, and a Staff member in the Office of the Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1982 to 1986.  He graduated from Catholic University with a B.A. degree in Political Science, an M.A. and a Ph.D degree in Political Science from Claremont Graduate School.  

LIEUTENANT GENERAL BRUCE CARLSON, U.S. AIR FORCE 

    General Carlson is Director, Force Structure, Resources and Assessment, J-8, the Joint Staff, Washington, D.C.  As director, he supports the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in force structure requirements; studies, analyses and assessments; and in the evaluation of military forces, plans, programs and strategies.  As secretary of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, he coordinates Joint Staff actions in support of the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and represents the interests of the commanders of the combatant commands in requirements generation, acquisition and planning, and programming and budgeting.  General Carlson was commissioned in 1971 after completing the University of Minnesota's Air Force ROTC program as a distinguished graduate.  He has held various assignments in flying units. Staff assignments have included positions at Tactical Air Command, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, and the offices of the Secretary of the Air Force and Secretary of Defense. Additionally, he commanded the Air Force's stealth fighter wing, the 49th, at Holloman Air Force Base.  He is experienced in multiple aircraft weapons systems, is a command pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours, and has combat experience in the OV-10.

VICE ADMIRAL ARTHUR K. CEBROWSKI, U.S. NAVY (RETIRED)

     Admiral Cebrowski is the Director, Force Transformation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2001.  Previously, he served as President, U.S. Naval War College.  Admiral Cebrowski has commanded Fighter Squadron 41 and Carrier Air Wing EIGHT, both embarked in USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). He later commanded the assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9).  During Operation Desert Storm, he commanded the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41).  Following promotion to flag rank, he became Commander, AMERICA Battle Group.  In addition to combat deployments to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, he has deployed in support of United Nations operation in Iraq, Somalia and Bosnia.  His tours of duty have included service with the US Air Force; the staff of Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Fleet; the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations on four occasions; and the Joint Staff as Director, Command, Control, Communication and Computers (J6).  Admiral Cebrowski holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Villanova University and a Master of Science Degree in Computer Systems Management from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA.  He has been a member of the CNO’s Strategic Studies Group and a Federal Executive Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

DR. PAUL K. DAVIS

     Dr. Davis is a Senior Scientist and Research Leader at RAND and a Professor of Policy Analysis in the Rand Graduate School.  Dr. Davis holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He has worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a senior executive, and at RAND--where he has served tours as project leader, program director, and corporate research manager.  Dr. Davis has published on defense planning, national military strategy, deterrence theory, cognitive models of decision-making, and advanced simulation.  He was editor and principal author of the 1994 RAND compendium, New Challenges in Defense Planning: Rethinking How Much Is Enough.  Most recently, he has written on strategy for DoD's force-transformation efforts, capabilities-based planning, and analysis for effects-based planning.  Dr. Davis is a member of the Naval Studies Board under the National Research Council and has served on numerous studies for it and the Defense Science Board.   

DR. JOSEPH J. EASH, III

    Dr. Eash is Chief Scientist for computational social science modeling in the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University.  Prior to his current position, he was Principal Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute.  He is also responsible for oversight of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Advanced Systems & Concepts).  Dr. Eash serves as the OSD Acquisition Technology and Logistics focal point for Joint Experimentation, Transformation, the Joint Advanced Warfighting Program, and Science and Technology Ttransition Initiatives.  From 1995 to 1997, he was Senior Vice President and Director of Applied Technology Programs, GRC International.  Between 1993 and 1995, Dr. Eash was President and CEO of SWL, Inc. (a subsidiary of GRC International).  He was Vice President, GRC International between 1992 and 1993 and was responsible for strategic planning and cross-divisional program development and investment.  Between 1987 and 1990 Dr. Eash worked at SRI International as Vice President, Systems Technology Division and Senior Vice President, Engineering Research Group.  Dr. Eash has also held  positions in the Air Force Office of Research, Secretary of the Air Force Space Systems, Satellite Data Systems Program Office, Air Force Systems Command, Air Force Director of Laboratories, Canadian Scientific and Technical Liaison Office, New York City Scientific and Technical Liaison Office, and the Air Force Weapons Laboratory.  Dr. Eash’s other activities include Chairman of the Platforms Panel of the Defense Science Board Study of Global Surveillance, Member of a sub panel of the Defense Science Board reviewing the potential for low observable technology in support of Special Operations Forces, Member of the Board of the David Sarnof Research Center, Member of the Board of DEVCO Corporation, and  Chairman of the technical advisory panel for Southwall Corporation.

MS. MICHÈLE A. FLOURNOY

     Ms. Flournoy is Senior Advisor for International Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she works on a broad range of defense policy and international security issues.  Previously, she was a Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University where she founded and led NDU’s QDR working group to develop intellectual capital in preparation for the Department of Defense’s 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review.  The group’s final report, QDR 2001: Options and Issues for the Next Administration, was published in November, and its book, QDR 2001: Strategy-Driven Choices for America’s Security, was published in May.  Prior to joining NDU, she was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy.  She was the principal author of current “Shape, Respond, Prepare” defense strategy and led several critical efforts for the Department of Defense, ranging from the drafting of PDD-56 on managing complex contingency operations to various post-QDR assessments of U.S. military capabilities required to carry out the strategy.  Prior to joining the Department of Defense in 1993, Ms. Flournoy was a Research Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  There she edited two volumes – one on U.S. nuclear weapons policy after the Cold War and another on managing proliferation – and directed the Avoiding Nuclear War Project.  She also served as the principal policy advisor to the Carnegie Commission on Reducing the Nuclear Danger.  Previously, Ms. Flournoy was a Senior Analyst at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC, writing on a range of arms control issues.  In addition to two edited volumes, Ms. Flournoy has published dozens of articles on a variety of international security issues.  She has a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University and an M.Litt. in International Relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she was a Newton-Tatum Scholar.  She is a member of the Defense Policy Board, the Aspen Strategy Group, the Council on Foreign Relations International Security. She also served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Transformation., the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and the Executive Board of Women in International Security. She also served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Transformation.

MR. DAVID C. GOMPERT

Mr. Gompert became President of RAND Europe in January 2000.  He is a member of the RAND Europe Executive Board, Vice President of RAND and Chairman of RAND Europe UK.  Mr. Gompert was Vice President of RAND and Director of the National Defense Research Institute from 1993 to 2000.  During a leave of absence (1997-98), he was Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University and Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy.  From 1990 to 1993, he served as Special Assistant to President George Bush and Senior Director for Europe and Eurasia on the National Security Council staff.  He has held a number of positions at the State Department, including Deputy to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1982-83), Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs (1981-82), Deputy Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs (1977-81), and Special Assistant to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (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 for Strategic Planning and Corporate Development.  At AT&T (1983-89), he was Vice President, Civil Sales and Programs, and Director of International Market Planning.  Mr. Gompert has published extensively on international affairs, national security policy, and information technology.  His books include Nuclear Weapons and World Politics, America and Europe:  A Partnership for a new Era (co-ed.), Right Makes Might:  Freedom and Power in the Information Age, Mind the Gap:  A Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Chief of Naval Operations’ Executive Panel, the Foreign Policy Association, Atlantik Bruecke, and the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Defense Department’s international schools.  Mr. Gompert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.  

MR. ANDREW R. HOEHN 

     Mr. Hoehn is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction.  He received a Bachelor’s degree in political science from Baldwin-Wallace College and a Master’s degree in public and international affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.  He has specialized in American foreign policy and national security affairs.  Prior to his current positions, he was the Principal Director for Strategy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements. He also has held staff positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense focusing on strategy development and force planning.  Before joining government service, Mr. Hoehn was associate editor of the Marine Corps Gazette.  He has authored various publications on defense and security matters and has contributed to books on European and Latin American security issues.

MR. FRANCIS G. HOFFMAN

     Mr. Hoffman is a national security affairs analyst with more than twenty years of policy and operational experience.  He is currently a strategic planner at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, Quantico, Virginia.  Prior to this position, Mr. Hoffman was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the National Security Strategy Group to support the U.S. Commission on National Security/21^st Century.  While serving on the Commission, he specialized in future military and security environment projections, strategic planning, military strategy, and organizational change.  He was the principal analyst and author for the Commission's homeland security and future military conflict assessments. Prior to his Commission appointment, Mr. Hoffman was the National Security Analyst and Director, Marine Strategic Studies Group, at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia.   From 1995 to 1999, he served as special assistant for national security affairs.  Just prior to this position, he served on the Professional Staff, Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces.  From 1983 to 1993, Mr. Hoffman served as an analyst at Headquarters, Marine Corps.  From 1978-1983, he served as an active duty Marine Infantry Officer in a variety of line and staff positions in the Second and Third Marine Divisions.  He received his commission from the NROTC program at the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.  In addition to supporting a number of government reports, Mr. Hoffman has authored Decisive Force: The New American Way of War, (Praeger, 1996), co-edited Maneuver Warfare Science (Quantico, VA 1998), and served as editor of the Marine Corps' Concepts and Issues for seven years.  He has published over 100 articles and reviews on national security strategy, defense economics, and military history, and lectured at most of this country’s professional military education schools. Mr. Hoffman holds degrees from the Wharton Business School, George Mason University, and the U.S. Naval War College.

  DR. ANDREW F. KREPINEVICH, JR.

     Dr. Krepinevich. is Executive Director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent policy research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies for the 21st century.  He also served as a member of the Department of Defense’s National Defense Panel. An accomplished author and lecturer, He has written extensively on a variety of security related issues, to include articles published in The National Interest, Issues in Science and Technology, Armed Forces Journal, Joint Forces Quarterly and Strategic Review, among others. He is also the author of a number of monographs, including The Air Force of 2016, A New Navy for a New Era, Missed Opportunities:  An Assessment of the Roles and Missions Commission Report, and The Bottom-Up Review: An Assessment.  Dr. Krepinevich received the 1987 Furniss Award for his book The Army and Vietnam, a critical assessment of the service’s performance during the war.  He gained extensive strategic planning experience in national security and technology policy through his work in the Department of Defense’s Office of Net Assessment, and by serving on the personal staff of three secretaries of defense.  During this period, he wrote the Defense Department's seminal assessment of the emerging revolution in military affairs. He has taught a wide variety of national security and defense policymaking courses while on the faculties of West Point and George Mason University, and currently lectures at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and Georgetown University.  In 1993, following an Army career that spanned twenty-one years, Dr. Krepinevich retired from military service to assume the directorship of what is now CSBA.  A graduate of West Point, he holds MPA and PhD degrees from Harvard University.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

GENERAL JAMES P. McCARTHY, USAF (RETIRED)

     General McCarthy is the Olin Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy.  Prior to retiring from the U.S. Air Force, he held a number of operational command positions including a fighter squadron in Vietnam, two bomber wings, 8th Air Force and Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. European Commander where he had day-to-day responsibility for all US forces in Europe.  While in Danang, Vietnam, he commanded the 4th Tactical Fighter Squadron and flew 152 combat missions.  He served in a number of assignments in the Pentagon, including the Director of Legislative Liaison with the U.S. Congress.  General McCarthy served on the National Defense Panel created by Congress to assess the Quadrennial Review.  The panel developed defense policy for the post-Cold War era and offered alternative approaches to Congress.  He is also a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, a member of the Defense Policy Board advising the Secretary of Defense; co-chaired the Defense Science Board's task force on Information Architecture for the Battlefield, and was the vice-chairman of the DSB on Intelligence Support for Bosnia Operations. 

MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM L. NASH, U.S. ARMY (RETIRED)

Appointed Director of the Council on Foreign Relation’s Center for Preventive Action in April 2001, General Nash leads the Council’s efforts to work with governments, international organizations, the business community and non-governmental organizations to anticipate international crises and to provide analysis and specific recommendations for preventive action.  Last year Bill Nash became one of the few Americans to lead a civilian as well as military peacekeeping operation.  At the request of the United States government, he became the Regional Administrator for the United Nations in northern Kosovo with headquarters in Mitrovica.  Prior to going to Kosovo, he was the Director of Civil-Military Programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, DC.  After his retirement from the Army in 1998, he was a Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.  General Nash commanded the United States Army’s 1st Armored Division from June 1995 to May 1997.  In late 1995, he became the Commander of Task Force Eagle, a multinational division of 25,000 soldiers from 12 nations charged to enforce the military provisions of the Dayton Peace Accords in northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.  He was a platoon leader in Vietnam and an armored brigade commander in Operation Desert Storm.  General Nash is also chairman of the advisory council to The Fund For Peace’s Regional Responses to Internal War program, and a member of the policy committee of the United Nations Association of the United States of America.

AMBASSADOR ROBERT BIGGER OAKLEY

            Ambassador Oakley is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University.  In 1992, Ambassador Oakley became President of C&O Resources, Inc. after a 34-year career in the United States Foreign Service.  From 1988 to 1991, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan.  Before that he had served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Middle East and South Asia on the staff of the National Security Council.  From 1991 to 1992, he served as Coordinator of the Special Program in Middle East Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), and remains associated with special projects of the USIP.  From 1992 until 1993, he served as the President's Special Envoy for Somalia.  He began his long and varied Foreign Service career in Khartoum, Sudan in 1958.  He served successively in the Office of the United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State; U.S. Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast; U.S. Embassy, Saigon, Vietnam; U.S. Embassy, Paris, France; U.S. Mission to the United Nations; and the U.S. Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon; and Senior Director for Middle East and South Asia on the staff of the National Security Council. Before being sent to Zaire as U.S. Ambassador, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs.  After his assignment in Zaire, he was assigned as U.S. Ambassador to Somalia.  He then returned to Washington and was appointed Director of the State Department  Office of Combating Terrorism.  He was seconded as a Fellow to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace before joining the National Security Council Staff.  Ambassador Oakley earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy and History from Princeton University.  After military service as a U.S. Naval Intelligence Officer in Japan, he attended graduate school at Tulane University. 

 DR. MICHAEL O'HANLON

     Dr. O'Hanlon is a Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. Dr. O’Hanlon expertise is in Arms treaties; Asian security issues; civil warfare; European security issues; military technology; missile defense; peacekeeping operations; U.S. defense strategy and budget.  His most recent books include Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense (2001); Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration, 2001-2005 (2001); Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo (2000); Technological Change and the Future of Warfare (2000).  He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of Public and International Affairs and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University.  He was formerly a defense and foreign policy analyst in the National Security Division at the Congressional Budget Office.  He received his undergraduate training in Physics at Princeton University, where he also received a Master of Science in Engineering Degree and a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  Between college and graduate school he spent two years in the Peace Corps stationed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central Africa (formerly Zaire).

MR. JOHN C. ROOD

            Mr. Rood is Director for Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense, National Security Council.  At the NSC, his responsibilities include the formulation, coordination, and implementation of policy on missile defense, and related arms control and nonproliferation matters.  Prior to coming the NSC, he served as Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Joh Kyl of Arizona.  In that position he worked on a broad range of defense and foreign policy issues, with an emphasis on missile defense, arms control, nonproliferation, export controls, and nuclear weapons issues.  His duties included drafting speeches and background memoranda, developing legislative strategy, and advising and preparing the Senator for votes and hearings.  Mr. Rood worked for Senatory Kyl for four years.  Prior to that, he held a variety of positions at the Central Intelligence Agency, including serving as the Nonproliferation Briefer where he supported the work of the NSC’s Nonproliferation and Export Controls Directorate, and as an analyst following missile programs in Third World countries.

BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES B. SMITH, U.S. AIR FORCE

             General Smith is Deputy Commander, Joint Warfighting Center, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Joint Training Analysis and Simulation Center, Suffolk, Virginia.  He is responsible for managing the joint force exercise and training development program, and for reviewing, coordinating, developing, publishing and applying the joint doctrine program. He also assists in planning and executing the joint task force commander and staff integration training, and contingency planning.  The general is a 1974 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy.  He received a master's degree in history from Indiana University in 1975.  His aviation career includes 4,000 hours in the F-15 and T-38, including combat sorties during Desert Storm.  He commanded the 94th Tactical Fighter Squadron and 325^th Operations Group.  His staff tours include duty as an action officer at Headquarters U.S. Air Forces in Europe and executive officer at Tactical Air Command. His joint experience includes serving as the CSAF chair at the National War College and as vice director of operations for North American Air Defense Command.  Prior to assuming his current position, the general served as commander of the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The wing provided support air operations to the commander in chief of U.S. Pacific Command through Pacific Air Forces and 5th Air Force.