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Thomas Donnelly

Thomas Donnelly

Project for the New American Century: Fellow
American Enterprise Institute: Fellow
The National Interest: Former editor
Lockheed Martin: Former communications director

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last updated: 11/20/2003

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Institutional Affiliations

  • Project for the New American Century: Senior fellow (1)
  • American Enterprise Institute: Resident fellow (2)
  • The National Interest: Executive Editor, 1994-1995 (1)
  • Army Times: Editor, 1987-1993; Journalist, 1980-1985 (1)
  • Defense News: Deputy Editor, 1985-1987 (1)
  • Government Service

  • House Committee on National Security (now Committee on Armed Services): Director of Policy Group, 1996-1999; Professional Staff Member, 1995 (2)
  • Corporate Connections/Business Interests

  • Lockheed Martin Corp.: Director of Strategic Communication and Initiatives, 2002 (2)
  • Education

  • Sidwell Friends School: K-12, Quaker school (1)
  • Ithaca College: B.A. in Philosophy (1)
  • Johns Hopkins University-SAIS: M.I.P.P. (2)
  • Highlights & Quotes

    According to Donnelly, “the strategic imperative of patrolling the perimeter of the Pax Americana is transforming the U.S. military, and those few other forces capable and willing of standing alongside, into the cavalry of a global, liberal international order. Like the cavalry of the Old West, their job is one part warrior and one part policeman -- both of which are entirely within the tradition of the American military.” (3)

    A U.S. victory in Iraq, said Donnelly in an article for AEI, “will define the start of a truly new world order; to steal Dean Acheson’s famous phrase, we are present at the creation. What, exactly, we are creating we do not know.” (4)

    Donnelly was one of the few neoconservative ideologues to support U.S. intervention in Liberia in mid-2003, arguing in a Washington Post op-ed that intervention was justified not for humanitarian motives per se, but because of the growing acknowledgment that "U.S. security interests in Africa ... cannot be ignored." (5)

    Donnelly wrote Operation Just Cause: The Storming of Panama, 1991, and Clash of Chariots: A History of Armored Warfare, 1996. He has also written for The Weekly Standard, Washington Post, The National Interest, and Jane’s Defence Week. (1)


    Sources

    (1) Project for the New American Century
    http://www.newamericancentury.org/thomasdonnellybio.htm

    (2) AEI - Scholars & Fellows
    http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.68,filter./scholar.asp

    (3) Thomas Donnelly, “Toward a Global Cavalry: Overseas Rebasing and Defense Transformation,” AEI Online
    http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.17783,filter.foreign/pub_detail.asp

    (4) Thomas Donnelly, “Brave New World: An Enduring Pax Americana,” AEI Online
    http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.16710/pub_detail.asp

    (5) Michael Flynn and Jim Lobe, “Selective Service,” Tompaine.com
    http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8280


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