Ph.D. William E. ODOM Director, National Security Studies Senior Fellow
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| Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a senior fellow and director of National Security Studies at Hudson Institute's Washington, D.C. office. He is also an adjunct professor at Yale University. | |
| As director of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior intelligence officer. | |
| From 1977 to 1981, General Odom was military assistant to the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security Council staff, he worked on strategic planning, Soviet affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy, and Persian Gulf security issues. | |
| Odom graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1954, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1970. |
Publikationen
| He has published articles in Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Foreign Policy, Orbis, Problems of Communism, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly, Military Review, and many other publications. | |
| The most recent of General Odom's books is The Collapse of the Soviet Military (Yale University Press, 1998), which won the Marshall Shulman Prize. |
