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Gary J. Schmitt
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Resident Scholar and Director of Advanced Strategic Studies
Resident Scholar Gary J. Schmitt
A former staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Gary Schmitt was executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) during President Reagan's second term. As director of AEI's program on advanced strategic studies, Schmitt's work will focus on longer-term strategic issues that will affect America's security at home and its ability to lead abroad.

Short Biography

Professional Experience

-Executive director, Project for the New American Century (a foreign and defense policy think tank), 1997-2005

-Adjunct professor, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University, 1996-97

-Consultant, U.S. Department of Defense, 1992-1993

-Fellow, The National Interest; the Brookings Institution; and the National Strategy Information Center, 1988-1996

-Executive director, the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the White House, 1984-1988

-Minority staff director, 1982-1984; professional staff member, 1981-1984, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

-Research faculty, White Burkett Miller Center for Public Policy, University of Virginia, 1977-1979

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago
B.A., University of Dallas

Articles and Short Publications
How the West Can Stand Up to Russia
That Thing We Call Courage
Indispensable Nation
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Books
Of Men and Materiel
Silent Warfare
U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads
Events
Our Polish Partners: A Review of Poland's Mission in Iraq
The Implications of Kosovo's Independence for U.S. Foreign Policy
The United Nations and Taiwan Democracy
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Research Areas
Strategic studies
National security
Intelligence
Europe
Research Projects
Tocqueville on China
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Contact Information
Gary Schmitt
American Enterprise Institute
 1150 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, DC  20036
Phone: 202-862-5831
Assistant: 202-862-5902
Fax: 202-862-4877
E-mail: gschmitt@aei.org
Latest Book
Of Men and Materiel
This book explores a problem that has been building quietly for years: the military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent. [Read More]