Dr.
Krepinevich is an accomplished author and lecturer
on US military strategy and policy. His
recent works include Strategy for a Long
Peace; Transforming America’s
Alliances; The Quadrennial Defense Review:
Rethinking the U.S. Military Posture, and
How to Win in Iraq.
His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs,
The National Interest, Issues in Science
and Technology, Joint
Forces Quarterly, The Naval War College
Review, and Strategic Review, among other
scholarly and public
interest journals. Dr. Krepinevich received
the 1987 Furniss Award for his book, The
Army and Vietnam.
Dr. Krepinevich gained extensive
strategic planning experience in national security
and technology
policy through his work in the Department
of Defense’s
Office of Net Assessment, service on the personal
staff of three secretaries of defense, and as a member
of the National Defense Panel in 1997, the Defense
Science Board Task Force on Joint Experimentation
in 2002-03, and Joint Forces Command’s Transformation
Advisory Board. Dr. Krepinevich has testified on numerous
occasions before the Senate and House Budget Committees,
the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, and
the House Government Reform Committee. He frequently
contributes to both national and local print and broadcast
media, including The New York Times, The Washington
Post, and The Wall Street Journal, and has appeared
on each of the major networks, National Public Radio,
and The McLaughlan Group. Dr. Krepinevich has lectured
before a wide range of professional and academic audiences,
including those at Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford,
the U.S. Military Academy, the Air University, the
Army and Naval War Colleges, Europe’s Marshall
Center, and France’s Ecole Militaire.
Dr. Krepinevich has served as a
consultant on military affairs for many senior
government officials,
including several secretaries of defense,
the CIA’s
National Intelligence Council, and all
four military services,
as well as the current U.S. Ambassador
to Iraq. He has also advised the governments
of several close
allies on defense matters, including those
of Australia, France, Japan, Singapore,
and the United Kingdom.
He has taught a wide variety of
national security and defense policymaking courses
while
on the faculties of West Point, George
Mason University, The Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies and Georgetown University. He is
currently the Distinguished Visiting Professor
at the George
Mason University’s School of Public Policy.
Following an Army career that spanned twenty-one
years, Dr. Krepinevich retired to become
the president of
what is now the Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments.