Bruce Jackson

Bruce P. Jackson President of the Project on Transitional Democracies. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy. He is the President of the U.S. Committee on NATO. Past experience includes: US Army intelligence (1979-1990), Office of the Secretary of Defense (1986-1990), chief strategist of proprietary trade operations at Lehman Brothers (1990-1993), high level management positions at Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corporation (1993-1999?).

According to John B. Judis, Jackson was tapped by the Bush administration to run the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq on the basis of his experience promoting NATO enlargement:

This year Jackson was able to parlay his NATO connections into support for the administration's war plans for Iraq. As the Bush administration was desperately searching for allies, Jackson helped draw up a declaration from the foreign ministers of the "Vilnius Ten," the 10 Eastern European countries that are up for NATO membership. "The newest members of the European community agree that we must confront the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and that the United Nations must now act," the foreign ministers declared on the same day that Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the United Nations. The declaration provided ammunition for the administration, but it also created a furor in Western Europe and even in some of the Vilnius Ten countries, where the public, and even the governments, did not want to be identified as part of what one Slovenian writer termed the "war coalition."

Afflitiations

• Committee on the Present Danger
• vice president of Lockheed Martin between 1993-2001
• Project for the New American Century (PNAC) Prior to joining Lockheed, Jackson had served as executive director of the PNAC and continues to sit on the board
• Project on Transitional Democracies, President
• Council on Foreign Relations, member
• International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Center for Security Policy on advisory board(CSP National Security Advisory Council)
• New Atlantic Initiative
• U.S. Committee on NATO, founder
• Cambridge University Centre of International Studies, member of the advisory board
• American Enterprise Institute
• International Institute for Strategic Studies, member of the London based group
• Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Founder & Chairman of the Board
• American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Member

Jackson's Past experience also includes:

• US Army intelligence (1979-1990),
• Office of the Secretary of Defense (1986-1990),
• Chief strategist of proprietary trade operations at Lehman Brothers (1990-1993),
• High level management positions at Martin Marietta and Lockheed Corporation from 1993, prior to the merger of the firms in 1995 to form Lockheed Martin.
• Republican National Convention, Chair of Platform Subcommittee on Foreign Policy, for the 2000 Presidential Campaign
• Republican National Convention Platform Committee and Platform Subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy, 1996
• Dole for President: National Co-Chairman of Finance Committee 1995-1996 (8)

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