Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1932, June 23 | Born, Cookeville, Tenn. |
| 1954 | B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Commissioned 2nd lieutenant, United States Army |
| 1954-1960 | Duty with troops in West Germany and United States |
| 1962 | Married Anne Weld Curtis M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1964-1966 | Member, United States military liaison mission to group of Soviet forces in Potsdam, Germany |
| 1966-1969 | Assistant professor of government, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1970 | Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1970-1971 | Staff member of Plans, Policy, Programs, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), Vietnam |
| 1971-1972 | Visiting scholar, Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1972-1974 | Assistant army attaché, United States Embassy, Moscow, USSR |
| 1974 | Published The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press |
| 1974-1975 | Associate, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1974-1977 | Associate professor, Department of Social Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1975-1976 | Associate member, Columbia University Seminar on Communism, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1975-1977 | Senior research associate, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1977-1981 | Military assistant to the assistant to the president for national security affairs |
| 1981-1985 | Assistant chief of staff for intelligence, United States Army |
| 1984 | Promoted to lieutenant general |
| 1985-1988 | Director, National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, Md. |
| 1988 | Director, national security studies, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, Ind. |
| 1989 | Adjunct professor, political science, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1992 | Published On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press Published Trial After Triumph. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hudson Institute |
| 1993 | Published America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure After the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: American University Press |
| 1998 | Published The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press |
| 2003 | Published Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press |
| 2004 | Published America's Inadvertent Empirewith Robert Dujarric. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press |
| 2008 | Senior advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. |
| 2008, May 30 | Died, Lincoln, Vt. |