| Current Position: Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations. | | Speaking in: Fifth Week, Trinity 2009
Speaking on: Assessing the Obama Administration's Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
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| Dr Stephen D. Biddle is Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Before joining the Council in January 2006 he held the Elihu Root Chair in Military Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI), and has held teaching and research posts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA); Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA); and the Kennedy School of Government's Office of National Security Programs. His book Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton University Press, 2004) has won four prizes, including the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Award Silver Medal for 2005, and the 2005 Huntington Prize from the Harvard University Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. His other publications include articles in Foreign Affairs, International Security, Survival, The Journal of Politics, The Journal of Strategic Studies, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, The National Interest, Orbis, Contemporary Security Policy, Defense Analysis, Joint Force Quarterly, and Military Operations Research; shorter pieces on military topics in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The International Herald Tribune, the Suddeutsche Zeitung, the Guardian, and Defense News; various chapters in edited volumes; and 31 IDA, SSI, MNF-I and NATO reports. Dr. Biddle has presented testimony before congressional committees on issues relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, force planning, conventional net assessment, and European arms control; served as U.S. Representative to the NATO Defense Research Group study on Stable Defense; is co-director of the Columbia University Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS); has served as a member of the Defense Department Senior Advisory Group on Homeland Defense; and holds an appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His research has won Barchi, Rist, and Impact Prizes from the Military Operations Research Society. He was awarded the US Army Superior Civilian Service Medal in 2003 and again in 2006, and was presented with the US Army Commander’s Award for Public Service by General David Petraeus in Baghdad in 2007 for his service on the Iraq Joint Strategic Assessment Team. He holds AB (1981), MPP (1985), and Ph.D. (Public Policy, 1992) degrees, all from Harvard University.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 April 2010 )
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Dr Stephen D. Biddle 
