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Home page  Experts William E. Odom
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William E. OdomSenior Adviser |
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U.S. national security; strategic planning; nuclear weapons policy; telecommunications; the Persian Gulf; Russian and Soviet affairs; the Cold War |
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Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (ret.), is a senior adviser at CSIS. He is also an adjunct professor at Yale University. As director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation’s signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as assistant chief of staff for intelligence, the army’s senior intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, General Odom served in the Carter administration as military assistant to the president’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked on strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues. General Odom is the coauthor, with Robert Dujarric, of America’s Inadvertent Empire (Yale, 2004) and the author of Fixing Intelligence for a More Secure America (Yale, 2003). His book The Collapse of the Soviet Military (Yale, 1998) won the Marshall Shulman Prize. He is also the author of America’s Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War (American, 1993); Trial after Triumph: East Asia after the Cold War (Hudson, 1992); On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents (Duke, 1992); and The Soviet Volunteers (Princeton, 1973). General Odom’s articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Foreign Policy, Orbis, Problems of Communism, the National Interest, the Washington Quarterly, Military Review, and other publications. A frequent radio and television commentator, he has appeared on programs such as the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC’s Nightline, NBC News, and the BBC’s The World Tonight. He also is a periodic contributor to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other newspapers. General Odom graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1954 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. |
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