Board of Directors
Rachel Ehrenfeld, Ph.D. is the Director of the American Center for Democracy. She is an expert on terrorist financing and the shadowy movement of funds through international banking, governments, business and charities to fund terrorism. She has a unique understanding of the challenges of international terrorism and Narco-Terrorism to democracy and freedom, and how money laundering and political corruption facilitates terror financing and economic warfare. Ehrenfeld also studied political corruption in Latin America and elsewhere and has developed the International Integrity Standard (IIS), to help control and monitor corruption.
Ehrenfeld was invited by the Brazilian government to lecture about the destabilization caused by Narco-terrorism, corruption and money laundering. She testified before Congressional Committees, as well as the European and Canadian Parliaments, provided evidence to the British Parliament, and consulted foreign governments as well as U.S. government agencies such as the Department of State and Defense, Treasury, Justice, the CIA, and Homeland Security. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Committee on the Present Danger.
She has been a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, a research scholar at the New York University School of Law, and a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Jesus College at Cambridge University. She has a PhD in Criminology from the Hebrew University School of Law.
Ehrenfeld is the author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed - and How to Stop It (BonusBooks, 2003, 2005); Evil Money (HarperCollins, 1992, SPI, 1994) and Narco-Terrorism: How Governments Around the World Used the Drug Trade to Finance and Further Terrorist Activities (Basic Books, 1990, 1992). She is at work on a new book, with the ACD fellows: The Muslim Brotherhood, Inc. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications such as The New York Times, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post, and she is a frequent guest on domestic and international TV and radio.
David W. Hamon serves as a Principal with ANSER (Analytic Services, Inc.) of Arlington, Virginia. Currently he is seconded to the Department of Defense (DoD – Defense Threat Reduction Agency -- DTRA) as Director for Research ,Studies & Analyses, Office of the Advanced Systems and Concepts. From 2002-2005 he served there as Chief of Advanced Concepts.
Prior to this secondment with the DoD Mr. Hamon developed future research agendas for ANSER’s public service role in meeting emerging threats and challenges.
From 1998-2001 he served as Regional Director for Policy and Programs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) African Affairs. His portfolio included policy planning and strategy development, peacekeeping/ humanitarian assistance, health and security, the African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI), training, and advocacy. He represented the DoD on the Cabinet level Task Force on HIV/AIDS and on the UNAIDS International Security Sector Steering Committee.
Mr. Hamon advises the U.S. Navy on HIV/AIDS in uniformed service populations, has worked with Argonne National Laboratory, and consults for the private sector on international logistics. He is a Contributing Faculty for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He serves on several boards including an international relief NGO and local non-profits supporting educational scholarships for high school students in music and American History.
Mr. Hamon retired from the U.S. Army in 1995 after serving as a logistician, including 10 years of service in Europe. His military service included the United Nations Department of Peace-keeping Operations (DPKO) where he was Chief of Current Operations, Field Administration and Logistics Division.
Mr. Hamon holds a Master’s of Arts Degree in International Relations from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, and a Bachelor’s of Education in Vocational Education/Speech & Communication from Colorado State University. He also holds two UN training certificates on Civil-Military Coordination (CIMIC).
A native of Colorado, David Hamon is married to the former Mabel Rosa Emerson of Zaragoza, Spain residing in Virginia with children Alexandra and Caitlin. Mr. Hamon has a daughter, Jean Marie Brown, who resides in Munich, Germany.
Michael B. Mukasey served as the 81st Attorney General of the United States from November 2007 to January 2009. He oversaw all activities of the Justice Department, and advised on critical issues of domestic and international law.
From 1988 to 2006, he served as a district judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, becoming chief judge in 2000. While on the bench, he handled numerous cases, including the trial of Omar Abdel Rahman, the so-called “blind sheikh,” and nine co-defendants, convicted of a wide-ranging conspiracy that included the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and a later plot to blow up New York landmarks, including the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the United Nations, and the FBI’s New York headquarters in lower Manhattan; and the case of Jose Padilla, arrested on a material witness warrant and believed to have returned to the United States to detonate a high-radiation bomb and to blow up apartment buildings by sealing apartments, filling them with gas, and then detonating them.
Judge Mukasey began his career in private practice after graduating from Yale Law School in 1967, where he was a member of the board of editors of the Yale Law Journal. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in the Criminal Division, from 1972 to 1976, and as chief of that office’s official corruption unit in 1975-1976.
From 1976 until 1987, when President Reagan nominated him to the bench, he practiced at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, where he litigated cases in state, federal and arbitral tribunals.
Since February 2009, Judge Mukasey has been a partner in the New York firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, where he is a member of the litigation department and focuses his practice primarily on internal investigations, independent board reviews and corporate governance. The honors he has received include the Federal Bar Council’s Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from Brooklyn Law School.
He and his wife, Susan, have two children, Marc and Jessica, and two grandsons, William and Benjamin Barkoff.
Richard Perle is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches defense, intelligence, national security, Europe, the Middle East, and the Russian region. He is a former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy. He is a former member of the Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense, 1987-2004, and Chairman, 2001-2003; Producer, PBS, The Gulf Crisis: The Road to War, 1992; assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, 1981-1987; and U.S. Senate staff, 1969-1980. He received his B.A. from the University of Southern California and M.A. in political science from Princeton University. His most recent books include: An End to Evil, Present Dangers, and Hard Line.
Dr. Nicholas Rostow is the Distinguished Research Professor at the National Defense University, specializing in international and national security law and affairs and U.S. government and international decision-making in foreign and national security policy. In addition, he is a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Law School, 2010-11. In 2010, he was a visiting professor at the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
Prior to joining NDU in September 2010, Professor Rostow served for more than 4 years as University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs and tenured full professor at the State University of New York. His public service positions include: General Counsel and Senior Policy Adviser to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 2001-05; Charles H. Stockton Chair in International Law, U.S. Naval War College, 2001; Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1999-2000; Counsel and Deputy Staff Director to the House Select Committee on Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China, 1998-99; Special Assistant to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush for National Security Affairs and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council under Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft; and Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, 1985-1987.
Professor Rostow has taught at the University of Tulsa College of Law and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as well as the Naval War College. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale in 1972, and his Ph.D. in history and J.D., also from Yale. His publications are in the fields of diplomatic history, international law, and issues of U.S. national security and foreign policy. Professor Rostow is married to the former Heyden White. They have two children.
Leonard P. Shaykin is a Managing Partner of LambdaStar Infrastructure Partners, L.P. Mr. Shaykin was a Managing Partner of Adler & Shaykin (1983-1994), an investment partnership organized to sponsor management leveraged buyouts. Adler & Shaykin managed roughly $300 million of institutional and private capital acquiring companies with total acquisition financing in excess of $2.4 billion. Prior to forming Adler & Shaykin in 1983, Mr. Shaykin was Vice President, Director and a member of the Investment Committee of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd. and Citicorp Capital Investors, Inc., where he was responsible for establishing and subsequently managing a $100 million equity fund dedicated to management leveraged buyouts. From 1970 to 1974, Mr. Shaykin was an investment officer at First Chicago Investment Corporation and First Capital Corporation of Chicago, the equity and venture capital investment vehicles of First Chicago Corporation. Mr. Shaykin was formerly a director and/or principal shareholder of Best Products Co., Inc., The Chicago Sun-Times, Ecolaire, Inc., the Folger Adam Company, International Healthcare, Joy Technologies, Inc., Multiserv International, Peterson Outdoor Advertising, Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc., and other public and private companies. Together these companies employed over 2,000 employees who were subject to numerous collective bargaining agreements. Mr. Shaykin is a graduate of The University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.) and The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).
R. James Woolsey is Chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC. He is also a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
Mr. Woolsey currently chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group, and he is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues.
Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) as Director of Central Intelligence. From July 2002 to March 2008 Mr. Woolsey was a Vice President and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton, and then a Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California until January 2011. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, now Goodwin Procter, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation, arbitration, and mediation.
During his 12 years of government service, in addition to heading the CIA and the Intelligence Community, Mr. Woolsey was: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He was also appointed by the President to serve on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986, as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST). As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970.
Mr. Woolsey serves on a range of government, corporate, and non-profit advisory boards and chairs several, including that of the Washington firm, ExecutiveAction LLC. He serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is currently Co-Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. Previously he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983.
Mr. Woolsey has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; and Yurie Systems, Inc. In 2009, he was the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal).
Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of energy, foreign affairs, defense, and intelligence. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons: Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin.
Board of Advisors
Richard Kaplan is the Senior Counterintelligence Analyst for the Department of Energy. His main responsibility includes the protrection of the National Critical Energy Infrastructure of the United States from interdiction by Foreign Intelligence and Security Services and International Hacker Groups. He is also responsible for protection of the Department of Energy Laboratory Complex, including Nuclear Weapons Facilities of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
During his tenure with the Department of Energy, he received the following awards for his efforts in support of ground and air combat targeting initiatives in Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya: NATO Article 5 Medal for Afghanistan; NATO Article 5 Medal for Operation Unified Protector; NATO Meritorious Service Medal (For Service to NATO 1991-2010); NATO Meritorious Service Medal (For Operation Unified Protector); Global War on Terrorism Civilian Service Medal ; DOD Outstanding Volunteer Service Medal ; Army Outstanding Civilian Service Award; Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award; Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award; Army Exceptional Civilian Service Award; Air Force Achievement Medal; Air Force Commendation Medal ; Air Force Meritorious Service Medal (2); Army Meritorious Service Medal; Air Force Legion of Merit; Army Legion of Merit.
Mr. Kaplan Served as a Senior Intelligence and Cyber Analyst and as the Chief, Intelligence Section of USDI, Office of Information Operations and Strategic Studies (IOSS). He also served as a Adjunct Senior International Affairs & Senior Technical Advisor to the United Nations Security Council, and the United Nations Secretariat, Department of Peacekeeping Operations; Office of the High Commission for Human Rights; Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Arms Control Unit. Served in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Europe to include the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO); the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL); the Second United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF-II); the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM); the United Nations Disengagment Observer Force (UNDOF); the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR); the United Nations Mission in Bosnia & Hertzagovina (UNMBH); the United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNMI) and the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS).
Dr. John Abeles was born in 1945 in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He received his Medical degree as well as a degree in Pharmacology from the University of Birmingham, England, in 1969. He practised Medicine in London, before joining the Pharmaceutical Industry as a Senior Medical Executive, with Sterling Drug, Pfizer Inc and Revlon Health Care. In 1975 he became a Wall Street health-care analyst with Kidder Peabody until 1980, when he formed MedVest and later Northlea Partners.
Since March 1992, Dr. Abeles has been the Founder, Sole Investor and General Partner of Northlea Partners Ltd., a private $ 30 million venture and private capital family partnership headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.
Since 1980, Dr. Abeles has also been President of MedVest, Inc., a business and financial consulting firm. He has been instrumental in helping promulgate many early stage medical and other companies; some are still private and several have emerged into the public arena. (see below)
He is a Managing Member of ProMed Capital LLC, a New York investment group promulgating Israeli medical venture companies and investments.
Regarding the public companies on the Boards of which he is currently, he has been a director of Oryx Technology since its organization in July 1993 and served as Chairman of its board of directors from October 1993 until April 1997. Dr. Abeles serves on the board of directors of I-Flow Corporation; a publicly traded company that manufactures infusion devices; DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded company, which is developing dermatology and photodynamic therapy products; Oryx Technology, a public software company; and CytoCore, Inc, which is researching medical diagnostic equipment.
Dr Abeles serves as and Advisory Board Member of the College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, and is on the Advisory Board of the Higuchi BioSciences Institute at the University of Kansas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London.
Jean-Charles Brisard was appointed Knight of the National Order of Merit on the (French) presidential reserve, on December 2008. He is an international consultant and expert on terrorism and terrorism financing. He authored the first and most exhaustive study ever written on the financial network of the Bin Laden organization, "The economic environment of Osama Ben Laden". His report was written for the French intelligence community and published by the French National Assembly in 2001. He testified on his work before the US Congress Joint Inquiry into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, before the US Senate Banking Committee and reported on terrorism financing for the President of the UN Security Council. He served as an expert or witness in prosecutions of terrorism financing and money laundering cases in France, Switzerland, the UK and the United States. He provides training to the French authorities on terrorism and terrorism financing.
Since June 2002, he is serving as lead investigator for lawyers representing over 6,500 family members of the 9/11 victims in the course of civil actions brought before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against the terrorists, terrorist states and the sponsors of terrorism, including individuals, banks, corporations and Islamic charities.
Jean-Charles Brisard has served as special adviser to the Vice President of Vivendi Universal for corporate and business intelligence after serving as director of business intelligence and international legal counsel for international corporations. He held governmental positions in France as counsel to the former Chief Antiterrorism Prosecutor and adviser to the French Minister of Interior and French Prime Minister. He also served as advisor to a US Senator.
Jean-Charles Brisard authored Forbidden Truth: U.S.-taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy And The Failed Hunt For Bin Laden in 2001 and Zarqawi, The New Face of Al-Qaeda in 2005.
His analysis regularly appears in international TV and newspapers, including NBC, CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Le Monde and Le Figaro.
Jean-Charles Brisard earns a Phd in Public International Law of the Paris University of Law, an Md in International and European Law, a diploma in Comparative Law from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, and he studied Diplomacy at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Kevin D. Freeman, CFA, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Holdings, LLC, is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the issues of Economic Warfare and Financial Terrorism. He has consulted for and briefed members of both the U.S. House and Senate, present and past CIA, DIA, FBI, SEC, Homeland Security, the Justice Department, as well as local and state law enforcement. He authored the report Economic Warfare: Risks and Responses under contract with the United States Department of Defense in 2009. He has traveled extensively with research trips to Russia and China and throughout Europe and the Americas. He recently authored the book, Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again (Regnery, 2012). Prior to establishing his own firm, Mr. Freeman wrote a business plan for Sir John Templeton in 1990 and helped build the Templeton Private Client Group from inception, ultimately leading the firm as Senior Managing Director. Mr. Freeman is a graduate of the University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma (B.S., Business Administration, 1983).
Dr. Gal Luft is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) a Washington based think tank focused on energy security and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition, an alliance of national security, environmental, labor and religious groups promoting ways to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. He specializes in strategy, geopolitics, terrorism, energy security and economic warfare. Newsweek Magazine called him a “tireless and independent advocate of energy security,” the business magazine Poder called him "one of the most recognizable figures in modern energy and security issues," and Esquire Magazine included him in its 2007 list of America's Best and Brightest.
Dr. Luft has published numerous studies and articles on security and energy issues in various newspapers and publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The American Interest, Commentary Magazine, Middle East Quarterly, LA Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. He appears frequently in the media and consults to various think tanks and news organizations worldwide. Dr. Luft testified before committees of the U.S. Congress, including Senate Foreign Relations, House International Relations, House Science and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is a board member of the Center for Energy Defence and a member of the Society of Industry Leaders, the Committee on the Present Danger and other non-profit groups. He holds degrees in international relations, international economics, Middle East studies and strategic studies and a doctorate in strategic studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University.
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, USAF (Ret.) is the founder of Government Reform Through Technology, a consulting firm that works with high-tech companies. GRTT conducts business with federal, state, city and local governments to help them introduce advanced technology into the public sector. Prior to this, he was the CEO and the president of Business Executives for National Security, a national, nonpartisan organization of business and professional leaders. For 35 years, General McInerney served as a pilot, commander, and strategic planner in the U.S. Air Force. He retired from military service as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Director of the Defense Performance Review, reporting to the Secretary of Defense. He led the Pentagon's "reinventing government" effort, visiting more than 100 leading-edge commercial companies to assimilate their ideas about business re-engineering. General McInerney graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned a Master's degree in international relations from George Washington University. He also attended the Armed Forces Staff College and National War College. Gen. McInerney, is also Military commentator of FOX NEWS, and author of Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.
Dmitry Radyshevsky received his BA in journalism from Moscow State University, his Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard University and his PhD from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem).
Born in Moscow, Mr. Radyshevsky worked as a religion writer for Moscow News and a senior foreign correspondent for The Jerusalem Report. After being invited in 1991 to US as a visiting journalist for an internship with TIME Magazine, Mr. Radyshevsky served as an Assistant Editor of the Russian project at New York Times, and then, for six years, was the New York Bureau Chief of Moscow News.
Having made Aliyah (repatriation)from US to Israel in 1999, Mr. Radyshevsky headed the The Michael Cherney Foundation to Aid Terror Victims and serves as a CEO of The Jerusalem Summit, an international forum, established in 2003. Dr. Radyshevsky is an author of several fiction and non-fiction books. His latest are: "Universal Zionism" (Ivrus, Israel, 2006), "The Jerusalem Alternative" (Balfour Books, 2005), "Babylon and Jerusalem: the Middle East Conflict in the Light of the Bible" (MCF, Tel-Aviv, 2003), "Mantra" (Penguin Putnam Inc., New York, 2002), "Dolphinarium: Terror Targets the Young" (MCF, Tel-Aviv, 2002).
Harvey M. Stone is Managing Partner of the Manhattan law firm Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP. Mr. Stone received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1966 (Classics and English). He then taught Classics in Rome, Italy. After graduating from the University of Virginia Law School in 1972, Mr. Stone served as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C. As a Justice Department attorney, he briefed and argued cases in the various federal courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court, and frequently defended the U.S. military against constitutional challenges to its criminal justice system and practices. The Solicitor General designated him to argue for the United States in Middendorf v. Henry, 425 U.S. 25 (1975), a challenge to the validity of the Navy's Summary Court Martial procedure. In 1977 Mr. Stone was appointed Chief of the Appeals Division, United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In that capacity, he briefed and argued major cases in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In March 1981, Mr. Stone left the United States Attorney's Office to co-found his law firm, which specializes in litigation. Mr. Stone has served as a Board member of St. Stephen's, an American preparatory school in Rome, since the mid-1980's, and has chaired its Governance Committee.
Major General Paul E. Vallely, USA (Ret.) was born in DuBois, Pa. He retired in 1991 from the US Army as Deputy Commanding General, US Army, Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. General Vallely graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the Army in 1961 serving a distinguishing career of 32 years in the Army. He served in many overseas theaters to include Europe and the Pacific Rim Countries as well as two combat tours in Vietnam. He has served on US security assistance missions on civilian-military relations to Europe, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Central America with in-country experience in Indonesia, Columbia, El Salvador, Panama, Honduras and Guatemala.
General Vallely is a graduate of the Infantry School, Ranger and Airborne Schools, Jumpmaster School, the Command and General Staff School, The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Army War College. His combat service in Vietnam included positions as infantry company commander, intelligence officer, operations officer, military advisor and aide-de-camp. He has over fifteen (15) years experience in Special Operations, Psychological and Civil-Military Operations.
He was one of the first nominees for Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations under President Reagan. From 1982-1986, he commanded the 351st Civil Affairs Command that included all Special Forces, Psychological Warfare and Civil Military units in the Western United States and Hawaii. He was the first President of the National Psychological Operations Association. His units participated in worldwide missions in Europe, Africa, Central America, Japan, Solomon Islands, Guam, Belgium, Korea and Thailand. He has served as a consultant to the Commanding General of the Special Operations Command as well as the DOD Anti-Drug and Counter-Terrorist Task Forces. He also designed and developed the Host-Nation Support Program in the Pacific for DOD and the State Department. Most recently, he has in-country security assistance experience in El Salvador, Columbia and Indonesia in the development of civil-military relations interfacing with senior level military and civilian leadership.
General Vallely is a military analyst for FOX News Channel and is a guest on many nationally syndicated radio talk shows. He is also a guest lecturer on the War on Terror. He is the Military Committee Chairman for the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. He has just co-authored a book entitled Endgame: Blueprint for Victory for Winning the War on Terror.
William R. Van Cleave is Chair of the Defense and Strategic Studies Department at Southwest Missouri State University (SMSU). He is an Adviser to the Center for Security Policy; A Study member at the National Institute for Public Policy; Former research fellow at Hoover Institution; Member of the Board of the Committee on the Present Danger; and a Member of the Team B Strategic Objectives Panel. Prof. Van Cleave received his B.A. in political science from California State University, and his m.A. And Ph.D. From Claremont Graduate School. He is a Former Member of the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; Former Special Assistant to the Secretary for Strategic Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Defense; Former Member of Team B Strategic Objectives Panel (late 1970s); Former Chairman-Designate of the General Advisory Committee of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: Former Senior Advisor and Defense Policy Coordinator (1979-1981), Office of the President; Former Director of the U.S. Department of Defense Transition Team, and Former Officer at the U.S. Marine Corps.
