Brent Scowcroft

Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft KBE (born 19 March 1925 in Ogden, Utah), USAF (Ret.) was the United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations.

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Lieutenant General - KBE - 19 March - 1925 - Ogden, Utah - USAF - United States National Security Advisor - Gerald Ford - George H. W. Bush - Military Assistant - Richard Nixon

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Prior to joining the Bush administration, Scowcroft was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. He is the founder and president of The Forum for International Policy, a think tank. Scowcroft is also president of The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international business consulting firm. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Kissinger Associates - The Forum for International Policy - Think tank - The Scowcroft Group - Council on Foreign Relations

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In the course of his military career, Scowcroft held positions in the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Headquarters of the U.S. Air Force, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Other assignments included faculty positions at the U. S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and Assistant Air Attache in the American Embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

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Joint Chiefs of Staff - U.S. Air Force - Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs - West Point - Assistant Air Attache - American Embassy - Belgrade - Yugoslavia

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Scowcroft has chaired or served on a number of policy advisory councils, including the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control, the President's Commission on Strategic Forces, the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, the Defense Policy Board, and the President's Special Review Board (Tower Commission) investigating the Iran-Contra affair.

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President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control - President's Commission on Strategic Forces - President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management - Defense Policy Board - President's Special Review Board - Tower Commission - Iran-Contra affair

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Scowcroft was a leading Republican critic of U.S. policy towards Iraq before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0805-02.htm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interviews/scowcroft.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36644-2004Oct15.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54680-2005Jan6.html. Scowcroft was criticized by others, including Andrew Sullivan, for his egregiously bad predictions on the Afghanistan War following 9/11.

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2003 invasion of Iraq - Andrew Sullivan

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Scowcroft had an aeronautical rating as a pilot and has numerous military decorations and awards. In addition, President Bush presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1991. In 1993, he was presented with the insignia of an Honorary KBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace.

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Presidential Medal of Freedom - KBE - Queen Elizabeth - Buckingham Palace

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Scowcroft He received his undergraduate degree and commission into the Army Air Forces from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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U.S. Military Academy - Columbia University

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He co-wrote A World Transformed with George H.W. Bush. This book described what it was like to be in the White House during the end of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s.

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A World Transformed - White House - Cold War - Soviet Union

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