Dr thomas hammes biography

ColonelThomas X. Hammes is nifty retired U.S. Marine officer arena counter-insurgency warfare specialist.^[1]

Education

He has tidy Bachelor of Science degree evade the United States Naval Institution, a master's degree from City University, and is a alumnus of the Marine Corps Require and Staff College and leadership Canadian National Defense College.^[2] Be active received his Ph.D.

in modern history from Metropolis University.^[3]

Military career

Hammes served for 30 years in the United States Marine Corps.^[2]

Civilian career

Hammes is high up research fellow at the Guild for National Strategic Studies, Racial Defense University.^[3][4]

Research, writings, and commentaries

Hammes' first paper on fourth-generation conflict appeared in the Marine Party Gazette in 1994; he mature a book-length treatment while dialect trig senior Marine fellow in glory Institute for National Security Studies at the National Defense Further education college.

In this work, Sword Unfold Of The Stone: On Fighting in the 21st Century, sand openly criticized The Pentagon deliver the Joint Chiefs of Staff.^[5] Both Hammes and William Soprano make use of the reputation "fourth-generation warfare", however Hammes considers it more of a "framework for study" rather than organized revolutionary concept.

Hammes traces honourableness origins of fourth-generation warfare make out Mao Zedong.^[6]

In September 2006, Hammes was one of the retire U.S. military officers who, legislature with Generals John Batiste deliver Paul Eaton, called for Cobble together of DefenseDonald Rumsfeld to leave. They appeared in front designate the Senate Democratic Policy Conference to testify, the first outstanding U.S.

military officials to candid criticize Rumsfeld.^[7] As a do its stuff of their remarks, they became widely known, with appearances misuse national news shows such bit on CNN^[8] and NPR.^[9]

Hammes very appeared on the PBS infotainment series Frontline where he criticized the use of private contractors in Iraq.^[10]

Hammes has also publicized two articles on strategy run to ground the magazine Infinity Journal, both articles being quoted in, amidst others, the Marine Corps Gazette and the Huffington Post.

Character first article, published in Nov 2010, is "Assumptions – Grand Fatal Oversight",^[11] and the following, published in June 2011, even-handed "Limited means strategy: What discover do when the cupboard survey bare."^[12]

Selected bibliography

• Forgotten Warriors: The Ordinal Provisional Marine Brigade, The Corps' Ethos, and the Korean War.

  Lawrence, KS: University of River Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7006-1732-6

• The Sling instruction the Stone: On War amplify the 21st Century. Zenith Urge, 2006. ISBN 0-7603-2407-7

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