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Colonel Daniel M. Smith graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1966. His initial assignment was with the 3rd Armor Division in Germany.  He then served as an intelligence advisor in Vietnam, following which he earned a graduate degree at Cornell University and taught philosophy and English at West Point.

 

Subsequent intelligence and public affairs assignments were at Fort Hood, Texas; the Army Materiel Research and Development Command, where he was speechwriter for the Commanding General; the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); and Headquarters, Department of the Army.  Six of his years with DIA were in London in the British Ministry of Defense and n as Military Attache in the U.S. Embassy. Colonel Smith retired in 1992. He joined the non-partisan Center for Defense Information in April 1993 becoming Associate Director in 1995 and Chief of Research in 1999.

 

Colonel Smith, a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army War College, joined the Friends Committee on National Legislation in September 2002 as Senior Fellow on Military Affairs.

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13 Articles

Monday, November 3, 2008
Red Lines
U.S. - Iraq security agreement

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Lessons Learned in Iraq Not Applied To Iran
Why the public must never take political pronouncements at face value

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Pulling Triggers in Iraq
(1 comments) Basra Fighting -- Why Now?

Sunday, March 23, 2008
On Admiral Fallon's Departure
(7 comments) A different look at the resignation of Admiral William Fallon

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Time for Philosophers, Physicists, Psychologists, and Politicians

Monday, November 26, 2007
DoD's "People System" Still Doesn't Work

Sunday, November 4, 2007
The Non-Vote on Genocide 2007
(10 comments)

Friday, August 3, 2007
Guns Galore
Arms sale to Middle East countries by Bush administration

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Speaking of History: Blair and Bush

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Losing More Than Lives in Iraq

Thursday, April 26, 2007
There's Time with Iran
(2 comments)

Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Madness of George W.
(1 comments)

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
The Tillman Affair and the Moral Decay of the Army: "Have You No Sense of Decency?"
(3 comments)

 

 

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