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Institutional
Affiliations
Center for Security Policy (CSP): Member, National Security Advisory Panel (2)
U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea: Chairman (6)
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
Smith Richardson Foundation: Member, Board of Governors (5)
Project for a New American Century (PNAC): Signed PNAC's founding statement of principles (3)
Committee on the Present Danger (CPD): Member (7)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Professor of Political Science (6)
RAND Corp.: Former head of the Social Sciences Department (6)
National Institute of Public Policy (NIPP): Member of team that produced January 2001 NIPP study Rationale and Requirements for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, which served as a blueprint for George W. Bush's Nuclear Posture Review (8)
Hudson Institute (9)
American Enterprise Institute (9)
Government
Posts/Panels/Commissions
Defense Policy Board (DPB): Member (4)
National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Former Director (6)
Reagan Administration: Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (6)
Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy: Co-Chairman of bipartisan commission that published Discriminate Deterrence in January 1988 (6)
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: Director (1973-77) (6)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Telos Corp.: Chairman of the Board (6)
Zurich-American Insurance Companies: Director (6)
CMC Energy Services: Director (6)
Education
University of Chicago: M.A. (1948), Ph.D. (1950)
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Highlights
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Iklé, a member of the Defense Policy Board and former Reagan administration official, is a longtime supporter of hardline U.S. policies, dating back to the early 1970s, when he served in the Nixon administration and joined the Committee on the Present Danger. More recently, he has supported the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, served on the board of the hawkish Center for Security Policy, and participated in the study group that produced the National Institute for Public Policy's 2001 report Rationale and Requirements for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control, which served as a blueprint for the Bush administration's controversial Nuclear Posture Review. He is also a governor of the rightwing Smith Richardson Foundation.
Regarding his appointment in the Reagan administration, the scholar Philip Burch wrote, "With the rise to power of rightwing interests following Reagan's election, Iklé was appointed Under Secretary of Defense for Policy largely because of the conservative ties he had established. ... [H]e had served on the [American Enterprise Institute's] advisory council on foreign policy and the advisory board of Georgetown's [Center for Strategic and International Studies], and had been associated with both the influential Committee on the Present Danger and the Hudson Institute. ... [T]wo conservative writers claim that the intercession of North Carolina's Sen. Jesse Helms weighed heavily ... in the decision to appoint Iklé. ... Lou Cannon, an objective journalist, put it more emphatically, saying that 'Helms was opposed to [Frank] Carlucci, but he accepted him because Reagan had decided to appoint a Helms favorite, Fred Ikle.'" (9)
According to the Center for Strategic & International Security, "In 1975 and 1987, Iklé received the highest civilian award of the Department of Defense, the Distinguished Public Service Medal; in 1988, he was awarded the Bronze Palm. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on defense, foreign policy, and arms control, including Every War Must End (Columbia University Press), 1971 and 1991, and How Nations Negotiate (Harper & Row), 1968." (1)
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