| Dr. Paul Wolfowitz to be Deputy Secretary of
Defense. On February 5, 2001, President Bush
announced his intention to nominate Dr. Paul
Wolfowitz to be Deputy Secretary of Defense. He
was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Feb.
28th and sworn in March 2, 2001 as the 28th
Deputy Secretary of Defense. This is Dr.
Wolfowitz's third tour of duty in the Pentagon.
For the last seven years, Dr. Wolfowitz has
served as Dean and Professor of International
Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins
University. SAIS is widely regarded as one of the
world's leading graduate schools of international
relations with 750 students, studying on campuses
in Washington, D.C.; Nanjing, China; and Bologna,
Italy. As Dean, he led a successful capital
campaign that raised more than $75 million and
doubled the school's endowment. Also under his
leadership, the curriculum and facilities were
modernized and new faculty and programs were
added to shift the school's focus from the Cold
War to the era of globalization.
From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Wolfowitz served as Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy in charge of the
700-person defense policy team that was
responsible to Secretary Dick Cheney for matters
concerning strategy, plans, and policy. During
this period Secretary Wolfowitz and his staff had
major responsibilities for the reshaping of
strategy and force posture at the end of the Cold
War.
Under his leadership, the Policy Staff played a
major role in reviewing war plans for the Gulf
War, and developing and executing plans that
successfully raised more than $50 billion in
Allied financial support for the war and
prevented Iraq from opening a second front with
Israel. Other key initiatives included the
development of the Regional Defense Strategy, the
Base Force, and two presidential nuclear
initiatives that led to the elimination of tens
of thousands of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons.
During the Reagan administration, Dr. Wolfowitz
served for three years as U.S. Ambassador to
Indonesia - the fourth largest country in the
world and the largest in the Moslem world. There
he earned a reputation as a highly popular and
effective Ambassador, a tough negotiator on
behalf of American intellectual property owners,
and a public advocate of political openness and
democratic values. During his tenure, Embassy
Jakarta was cited as one of the four best-managed
embassies inspected in 1988.
Prior to that posting, he served three and a half
years as Assistant Secretary of State for East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he was in charge
of U.S. relations with more than twenty
countries. In addition to contributing to
substantial improvements in U.S. relations with
Japan and China, Assistant Secretary Wolfowitz
played a central role in coordinating the U.S.
policy toward the Philippines that supported a
peaceful transition from the dictatorship of
Ferdinand Marcos to democracy.
Dr. Wolfowitz's previous government service
included:
- Two years as head of the State
Department's Policy Planning Staff
(1981-82):
- An earlier Pentagon tour as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Regional Programs (1977-80), where he
helped create the force that later became
the United States Central Command and
initiated the Maritime Pre-positioning
Ships, the backbone of the initial U.S.
deployment twelve years later in
Operation Desert Shield;
- Four years (1973-77) in the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, working on the
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and a
number of nuclear nonproliferation
issues; and
- A year as a Management Intern at the
Bureau of the Budget (1966-67).
Dr. Wolfowitz taught previously at Yale
(1970-73) and Johns Hopkins (1981). In 1993, he
was the George F. Kennan Professor of National
Security Strategy at the National War College. He
has written widely on the subject of national
strategy and foreign policy and was a member of
the advisory boards of the journals Foreign
Affairs and National Interest .
Among his many awards for public service are:
- The Presidential Citizen's Medal,
- The Department of Defense's Distinguished
Public Service Medal,
- The Department of State's Distinguished
Honor Award,
- The Department of Defense's Distinguished
Civilian Service Medal, and
- The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's
Distinguished Honor Award.
Dr. Wolfowitz received a bachelor's degree
from Cornell University (1965) in mathematics,
and a doctorate in political science from the
University of Chicago (1972).
(Current as of March 2001)
Updated: 06 Mar 2001
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