|
Institutional
Affiliations
Project
for the New American Century: Board of Directors (2)
U.S.
Committee on NATO: Founder (3)
Center
for Security Policy: National Security Advisory Council
(4)
American
Enterprise Institute: International Advisory Board of the
New Atlantic Initiative (3)
Project
on Transitional Democracies: Founder (1, 10)
Council
on Foreign Relations: Member (6)
International
Institute for Strategic Studies, London: Member (3)
Center
for Strategic and International Studies: Board of Advisers
(3)
Cambridge
University Centre of International Studies: International
Advisory Board (7)
Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq:
Founder, Chairman of the Board (8)
Republican
National Convention:
Chair of Platform Subcommittee on Foreign Policy, 2000 Presidential
Campaign (8)
Republican
National Convention:
Platform Committee and Platform Subcommittee for National Security
and Foreign Policy, 1996 (8)
Dole
for President:
National Co-Chairman of Finance Committee 1995-1996 (8)
American Committee for Peace in Chechnya:
Member
Government
Service
Office
of the Secretary of Defense: Various policy positions pertaining
to nuclear forces, strategic defense, and arms control, 1986-1990
(8)
U.S.
Army: Military Intelligence Officer, 1979-1990 (8)
Corporate
Connections/Business Interests
Lockheed
Martin Corp.: Vice President for Strategy and Planning,
1999-2002; Director of Global Development, 1997-1999; Director
of Defense Planning and Analysis, 1995-1997 (2)
Martin
Marietta Corp.: Director for Strategic Planning, Director
for Corporate Development Projects, 1993-1995 (2)
Lehman
Brothers (investment bank): 1990-1993 (2)
|
Highlights
& Quotes
Bruce
Jackson is the archetypal inside player: He is the founder of a
string of influential advocacy groups that support hawkish U.S.
foreign polices, including the U.S. Committee on NATO and the Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq; he has had intimate ties to several
defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin and Martin Marietta;
and he is a close associate of leading Republican Party members
and Bush administration figures.
Wrote
one Jackson critic: “Mr. Jackson was Vice President for Strategy
and Planning at Lockheed Martin Corporation, which means that while
Jackson was founding the U.S. Committee for NATO and the Project
for Transitional Democracies; while he was serving on the board
of the Project for the New American Century; and while he was chairing
the Republican Party subcommittee on foreign policy -- all of which
advocated more defense spending -- Bruce P. Jackson was also working
for a company that stood to gain the most from stepped up spending
on weapons."(10)
A
1997 article in The New York Times described Jackson’s activities
in a similar light: “At night, Bruce L. Jackson is president
of the U.S. Committee to Expand NATO, giving intimate dinners for
Senators and foreign officials. By day, he is director of strategic
planning for Lockheed Martin Corporation, the world’s biggest
weapons maker.”
In
an article for the American Prospect, John Judis quotes an unnamed
“prominent neoconservative,” who said that Jackson was
viewed as the "nexus between the defense industry and the neoconservatives.
He translates us to them, and them to us." Judis also wrote:
As a military intelligence officer in the 1980s, Jackson was assigned
to the Pentagon in the Reagan and Bush Senior administrations,
where he worked under Perle and two other leading hawks, Paul
Wolfowitz and Dick
Cheney. In the late 1990s, while working for Lockheed Martin,
Jackson avidly promoted the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe.
Last fall the administration called on Jackson to set up the Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq. "People in the White House said,
'We need you to do for Iraq what you did for NATO,'" Jackson
said in a phone interview.
Jackson,
a long-time proponent of NATO expansion, had considerable success
lobbying Eastern European countries to support U.S. policy in Iraq.
He helped draft a declaration for the so-called Vilnius 10 countries
in February 2003 rebuking French President Jaques Chirac’s
position on Iraq. He then convinced the Vilnius Ten countries to
sign the declaration, saying that it would help win the U.S. Senate’s
approval of their membership into NATO. Said the declaration, "The
newest members of the European community agree that we must confront
the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and that the United Nations must now
act." According to Judis, "The declaration provided ammunition
for the administration, but it also created a furor in Western Europe
and even in some of the Vilnius Ten countries, where the public,
and even the governments, did not want to be identified as part
of what one Slovenian writer termed the 'war coalition.'" (9,
12)
Jackson
articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The National
Interest, Policy Review, Politya, Gazeta Wyborzca, and other publications.
(3)
|
