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Colonel Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)

A former army colonel, is a well-known commentator on ethics, leadership, and international security issues, and is a military analyst with MSNBC and NBC News, as well as a regular columnist for MSNBC.com. His military career as an operational intelligence officer also included service on the faculty of the United States Military Academy, as special assistant to the Army Chief of Staff, and as dean of students at the National War College. A command and control expert, he served in 1996 on special assignment with the U.S. 1st Armored Division in Bosnia. A noted author and lecturer, Col. Allard’s new hard-hitting and often hilarious book, Warheads: Cable News and The Fog of War, is a must-read that details the debilitating issues that arise when a nation watches war on TV. He concludes with the highly provocative question: are the American political and media establishments up to the challenges of a war from which there may be neither end nor retreat? He is also the author of Business as War, Battling for Competitive Advantage (Wiley December 2003), Somalia Operations: Lessons Learned, and Command, Control and the Common Defense, which won the 1991 National Security Book Award. Allard holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, an M.P.A. from Harvard University, and he is an adjunct professor in the National Security Studies Program, Georgetown University.

Articles:

• Ethics Are No Substitute for Good Old-Fashioned Character
• Military Commentators: Dupes of the Pentagon or the Media?
• Remember the Real Heroes
• Another ‘Once Upon a Time’ Moment, Brought to You by Hillary Clinton
• An Offering of Hope in a Season of Doubt
• Air Force Tanker Contract Causes Congressional Tantrums
• Do Privilege and Personal Entitlement Make Up Our Brave New World?
• Who Has What It Takes to Be Commander-in-Chief?
• Huckabee: The Cure for What Ails?
• At the ready?
• Hey, Candidates! We’re Fighting a War, Remember?
• Guns and ‘Butter’: Unusual Security Partners
• Calling for Change? The Military is a Good Role Model
• Luck, Strategy or Something Else? Iran’s Game of Cat and Mouse
• After Bhutto: Picking Up the Pieces
• ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’ an Entertaining Yet Cautionary Tale
• Four Key Election Issues Being Ignored by the Candidates and Media
• Feliz Navidad, Y’all!
• As It Goes in War, So It Goes in Business
• Anti-War Cadre Doesn’t Understand the Military
• America Could Learn a Thing or Two from Texas
• What (Vital) Health Care Lessons Can America Learn from Veterans?
• Iraq Experience Teaching U.S. Homeland Security
• Looming Conflict with Iran Will Likely be Precise, Surgical
• Equal Sacrifice in War Is Necessary
• U.S. Would Be Smart to Take Iran Seriously
• These Veterans Are Indeed 'The Greatest Generation'
• Democrats' Criticism a Poor Response to General's Message
• Religion Does Have a Role in the Life of Our Nation
• Analyzing Intelligence Gathering: What Will Terrorists Do Next? Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, Ret.)
• Economic Pitfalls Show a Snowballing Problem By Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)
• Like Bridges, Alamo Project Put Off, Until It's Too Late Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)
• Got Some Good News, Got Some Bad News Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)
• Military Expert, Gen. Wayne Downing Always Stuck to His Guns, Told the Truth
• Hierarchy Won't Save U.S. From An Attack Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.)
• Iraqi 'Soft Partition' Could be Solution Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, Ret.)
• To the Supreme Council of the Grand Ayatollahs Col. Ken Allard (U.S. Army, ret.)
• An Account of How The West Was Lost Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, Ret.)
• The Threat of Porous Borders Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army Ret.)
• Ready For The TAKS, But Not For The Future Col. Ken Allard (US Army Ret.)
• National Service The Way To Revitalize Ailing Army
• Is Army All That It Can Be?
• ABC Gets It Right
• NBC sinks too low for this talking head
• As War Tanks, So Do Standards for News Shows
• Diplomatic lessons from a lofty place
• Mission Impossible?
• Missing the Tough Questions

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