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Stephen J. Cimbala is Professor of Political Science at Penn State Delaware County Campus and has contributed to the literature of political science, military and defence studies and arms control for more than 25 years. Dr Cimbalas recent publications include: The Politics of War (Penn State Press, 1997); Collective Insecurity (Praeger, 1995); and Clinton and Post- Cold War Defense (Praeger: 1996) (as contributing editor). His current work includes nuclear arms control, Cold War political history, and coercive military strategy. Cimbala is an award-winning Penn State University teacher and serves on the editorial boards of four professional journals.
Ben B. Fischer is on the history staff of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Center for the Study of Intelligence. He received an MA and M. Phil, from Columbia University. After joining the CIA in 1974, Mr Fischer served in the Directorate of Intelligence and the Directorate of Operations. He has won several awards for articles published in Studies of Intelligence , CIAs journal for intelligence professionals. Fischers most recent publication is Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police. His current work includes an article on East German Cold War SIGINT operations (forthcoming in the Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence ) and a manuscript on the East German foreign intelligence service.
Raymond L. Garthoff is a diplomatic historian, a former diplomat and one of the countrys leading experts on the Soviet military for at least four decades. Dr Garthoff is the author of Detente and Confrontation: American- Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan (rev. edn, 1994), the Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War (1994) , and other works on the history of the Cold War. In 1961 Garthoff was serving as Special Assistant for Soviet Bloc Politico-Military Affairs in the Department of State. Among his seminal studies of Cold War history and politics is Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis (Brookings, 1989), based in part on his participation in Cuban missile crisis decision-making as a State Department official.
Lt. Col. Lester W. Grau, USA (Retd) is a Military Analyst for the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is a graduate of the US Army Defense Language Institute (Russian) and the US Armys Institute for Advanced Russian and Eastern European Studies. Lt. Col. Grau served a combat tour in Vietnam, four European tours, a Korean tour and a posting in Moscow. He has travelled to the Soviet Union and Russia over 40 times. Grau has published over 50 articles and studies on Soviet and Russian tactical, operational and geopolitical subjects. Graus book, The Bear Went Over the Mountain: Soviet Combat Tactics in Afghanistan was published in 1996. The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet- Afghan War , co-authored with Ali Mali, will be published in 1998.
Edward A. Kolodziej is Research Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Director of the Ford Foundation Interdisciplinary Seminar on the World Society. Dr Kolodziej has written or edited 11 books on security and foreign policy, including: The Uncommon Defense and Congress: 194563 (Ohio State University Press, 1966); French International Policy under De Gaulle and Pompidou: The Politics of Grandeur (Cornell University Press, 1974); and Marketing and Arms: The French Experience and Its Implications for the International System (Princeton University Press, 1987). He has contributed more than 100 articles to professional journals and chapters to edited volumes, and has lectured at universities, research centres, and governmental agencies in more than 30 countries.
Lawrence J. Korb is Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Director of Studies and Vice President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Dr Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) from 1981 through 1985, administering about 70 per cent of the defense budget. The author of 15 books and 150 articles on national security and defence issues, Korb has held a number of academic positions, including Professor of Management at the Naval War College from 1975 to 1980. He is Chairman of the board of the Committee for National Security and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Aspen Strategy Group. Author of numerous op eds in the New York Times, Washington Post , and Wall Street Journal among others, Korb frequently testifies before Congress on public policy issues and appears regularly on television news programmes.
William T. Lee was an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency from 1951 through 1964, where he benefited from his extensive educational background in Soviet and Chinese economic and military affairs. Mr Lees tenure at the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 19811985 included highly specialized analysis of nuclear targeting issues. He has also worked at Stanford Research Institute and has served as a consultant to government and industry on a variety of issues, including Soviet military doctrine and strategy, defence expenditures, military exercises and doctrine. Lees publications include: The Estimation of Soviet Defense Expenditures, 19551975 (Praeger, 1977); Soviet Military Policy Since World War II , with Richard Staar (Hoover Institution, 1986) and CIA Estimates of Soviet Military Expenditures: Errors and Waste (American Enterprise Institute, 1995), as well as numerous articles on Soviet military policy and defence expenditures. He has taught at the US Defense Intelligence College and lectured at many colleges and universities in the USA and overseas.
Mackubin Thomas Owens is Professor of Strategy and Force Planning at the US Naval War College, Newport, RI where he has taught for the past 11 years. Dr Owens edited the journal Strategic Review from 199097 and has published extensively in the literature of US maritime strategy, national defence and security policy. Owens, who retired as a Colonel in the US Marine Corps Reserve in 1994, was invited to contribute the Schulze Memorial Essay for the Marine Corps Gazette in 1997 on The Use and Abuse of Jointness. His course designed for Boston University on Seapower and Maritime Strategy is among his many contributions to national security education in the civilian academic world.
