Bernard Rogers

Bernard Rogers    ( soldier)
Born	1921-07-16  Fairview,  Kansas,  U.S.
Died	2008-10-27 (Age 87)  Falls Church,  Virginia,  U.S.
Nationality	US
Alma mater	•  West Point •  United States Army Infantry School •  Command and General Staff College •  University College (Oxford)
Member of	Atlantic Council, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, Phi Delta Theta, Rhodes Scholar/1947
US General, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, attended 6 Bilderbergs in the 1980s  Supreme Allied Commander Europe In office July 1, 1979 - June 26, 1987 Employer NATO Preceded by Alexander Haig Succeeded by John Galvin

General Bernard W. Rogers was a US officer and Rhodes Scholar with a charmed career. He was Supreme Allied Commander Europe when he attended the Bilderberg conference in 1981 through 1985 and 1987.

Early life and education

Rogers was born in Fairview, Kansas on 16 July 1921. He spent a year at Kansas State University, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity, before receiving an appointment to the United States Military Academy in 1940, where he was First Captain of the Corps of Cadets. He graduated in June 1943 as Cadet First Captain (first in his class), and was commissioned a second lieutenant of Infantry.He attended the officer basic course at the United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning in preparation for a World War II combat assignment.

Military career

Rogers was promoted to temporary first lieutenant in December 1943. Rather than the combat assignment he expected, Rogers was sent to West Point to teach. He provided instruction in economics, government, and history from 1944 to 1945, and received promotion to temporary captain in February 1945. From 1945 to 1947 he was aide to the High Commissioner to Austria and commander of the Sixth Army, General Mark W. Clark.

In 1947, Rogers attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1950 (he was later awarded a Master of Arts in the same subject). During his time at Oxford he was promoted to permanent captain.

Career

After Oxford, Rogers was assistant to the commander of the army ground forces from 1950 to 1951, and was promoted to temporary major in July 1951. Rogers was then deployed to Korea, where he commanded the 3^rd Battalion of the 9^th Infantry Regiment from 1952 to 1953, and promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel in August 1953.

From 1961 to 1962, Rogers became military assistant and executive officer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Maxwell Taylor, whom President Kennedy had appointed on October 1, 1962. In this capacity, he assisted General Taylor during the Cuban Missile crisis.

Rogers was promoted to permanent lieutenant colonel in January 1964 and temporary brigadier general in October 1966, moving on to become the assistant commander of the 1^st Infantry Division in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967.

Rogers became one of the few senior officers chosen for the command of a division. Rogers became known as one of the brightest thinkers in the army after he shared his innovative ways of dealing with disciplinary, racial, drugs and other problems at the annual Army Commanders Conference on 30 November 1970.

In 1976, Rogers was appointed by President Gerald Ford chief of staff of the United States Army, the last veteran of World War II to hold this position.

He authorized the formation of Delta Force, the first United States military "counter-terrorist" unit.

Supreme Commander of the Allied forces

Bernard W. Rogers was appointed by President Jimmy Carter Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR) of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in June 1979 and, at the same time, commander-in-chief of the United States European Command. He took up his job as SACEUR on July 1, 1979.

Rogers later said he was unaware of the details of Gladio.

When the Reagan administration signed a treaty with the Soviet Union requiring each side to withdraw intermediate-range missiles from Europe, Rogers called the agreement "foolish." He said the Warsaw Pact's superiority in foot soldiers and conventional weapons left NATO forces at risk of being quickly overrun. His stance drew a pointed rebuke in 1987 from Secretary of State, George P. Shultz, who called the general's comments "way out of line." Rogers soon retired. He was SACEUR for eight years, longer than any other NATO Supreme Allied Commander. He retired from the army after 47 years in June 1987.

Later activities

He became director of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Atlantic Council. He sat on the boards of United Service Organizations and the Association of the United States Army and was a consultant and director of several companies, including Coca-Cola and General Dynamics. Bernard W. Rogers died in 2008 of a heart attack.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1981	15 May 1981	17 May 1981	Switzerland Palace Hotel Bürgenstock	The 29th Bilderberg
Bilderberg/1982	14 May 1982	16 May 1982	Norway Sandefjord	The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway.
Bilderberg/1983	13 May 1983	15 May 1983	Canada Quebec Château Montebello	The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada
Bilderberg/1984	11 May 1984	13 May 1984	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The 32nd Bilderberg, held in Sweden
Bilderberg/1985	10 May 1985	12 May 1985	New York US Arrowwood of Westchester Rye Brook	The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada
Bilderberg/1987	24 April 1987	26 April 1987	Italy Cernobbio	35th Bilderberg, in Italy, 106 participants
WEF/Annual Meeting/1983	January 1983	January 1983	Switzerland WEF	By 1983, the European Management Symposium had become, as Klaus Schwab put it in his opening address, "the foremost annual gathering of decision-makers of the world economy."

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