FORA.tv Speaker - Thomas L. McNaugher

Vice President, Army Research Division Director of RAND's Arroyo Center As an active duty Army officer from 1968 to 1975, served in the Republic of Vietnam from 1970 to 1971. As a mobilized Army Reservist, participated in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, on the Arabian Peninsula, from December 1990 to May 1991. From 1981 to 1995, Dr. McNaugher was first a Research Associate and then a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution. Books include The M16 Controversies: Military Organizations and Weapons Acquisitions; Arms and Oil: U.S. Military Strategy and the Persian Gulf ; and New Weapons, Old Politics: America's Military Procurement Muddle. He is a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he is on the editorial board of Joint Forces Quarterly.