Hoover Institution (Stanford, CA) - In commemoration of Veterans Day, the Hoover Institution recognizes all fellows who served in the US Armed Forces.
The fellowship includes veterans of five military service branches, including those who served in major foreign conflicts such as Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and World War II.
“I have the deepest respect and admiration for the men and women of the military here at Hoover and in every part of the world, who have given of themselves in service to our nation and to the cause of freedom,” said Condoleezza Rice, director of the Hoover Institution. “Our veterans and their families have made tremendous sacrifices to protect the American way of life, not just for our citizens today but for generations to come.”
The Hoover community offers sincere gratitude to the following fellows:
Joseph Berger (US Army)
Senior Fellow, Emeritus Joseph Berger served in the US Army in the Headquarters of Military Intelligence Service, European Theater of Operations; and in the Information Control Division, Office of the Military Government of Greater Hesse, Germany, between 1943 and 1946. He received a direct commission in France in 1945 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Army Commendation Award.
James O. Ellis, Jr. (US Navy)
Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow James Ellis served in the US Navy for nearly forty years. A graduate of the US Naval Academy and a pilot, his service included two tours with carrier-based squadrons, including as commanding officer of an F/A-18 strike/fighter squadron. In 1991 he assumed command of the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and in 1996 he was commander of a carrier battle group leading contingency response in operations in the Taiwan Strait. His final assignment was as commander of the US Strategic Command, reporting directly to the US Secretary of Defense.
Joseph Felter (US Army)
Research Fellow Joe Felter served as a US Army Special Forces and Foreign Area officer in a variety of assignments across Southeast Asia. His combat deployments include Panama with the 75th Ranger regiment, Iraq with a Joint Special Operations Task Force, and Afghanistan, where he commanded the Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team.
Thomas W. Gilligan (US Air Force)
Senior Fellow Tom Gilligan was an officer in the US Air Force from 1972 to 1976 as a Russian linguist. For four years, he flew on reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union and intercepted communications.
James Goodby (US Air Force)
Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow James Goodby served in the US Air Force Reserve from November 1952 through October 1965. He was commissioned to active duty from December 1952 through August 1953 during the Korean War. Prior to his active duty service, Goodby was a civilian geologist for the Army Corps of Engineers and participated in the testing of permafrost in what became the foundations of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) in Canada and Thule Air Base in Greenland.
Eric Hanushek (US Air Force)
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow in Education Eric Hanushek graduated from the US Air Force Academy and served nine years in the US Air Force, including tours teaching at the academy, working on the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the US Cost of Living Council, and conducting research for the Military Air Lift Command.
Thomas H. Henriksen (US Army)
Senior Fellow Emeritus Tom Henriksen is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. He served in the US Army as an infantry officer in the Vietnam War era, 1963 to 1965.
Jim Hoagland (US Air Force)
Senior Fellow Jim Hoagland served in the US Air Force, stationed in Germany, from 1962 to 1964.
Bobby Inman (US Navy)
Distinguished Visiting Fellow Bobby Inman was as an officer in the US Navy for over thirty years. He has served in posts including as director of Naval Intelligence, vice director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, director of the National Security Agency, and deputy director of Central Intelligence.
Timothy Kane (US Air Force)
J. P. Conte Research Fellow in Immigration Studies Tim Kane is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy. His service as a US Air Force intelligence officer included two tours of duty overseas.
Henry A. Kissinger (US Army)
Distinguished Visiting Fellow Henry Kissinger served in the US Army from 1943 to 1946 during the Second World War and in the US occupation of postwar Germany.
Harvey C. Mansfield (US Army)
Senior Fellow Harvey Mansfield served in the US Army from 1954 to 1956. During this time, he was deployed to France, where US forces were preventing the westward military move of the Soviet Red Army.
James Mattis (US Marine Corps)
Davies Family Distinguished Fellow James Mattis commanded at multiple levels in his forty-three-year career as an infantry marine. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, he commanded the First Expeditionary Brigade and Naval Task Force 58 in operations against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. He commanded the First Marine Division during the first attacks and subsequent military operations in Iraq. He later became commander of US Joint Forces Command and then US Central Command before his appointment as the 26th US Secretary of Defense.
H. R. McMaster (US Army)
Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow H. R. McMaster served in the US Army for thirty-four years. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, McMaster was commander of the Eagle Troop, Second Armored Calvary Regiment in Operation Desert Storm, commander of the Third Army Calvary Division in Iraq from 2005 to 2006, and commander of the Combined Joint Inter Agency Task Force in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2012. His last assignment in public service was as national security advisor to the president from 2017 to 2018.
Thomas Gale Moore (US Navy)
Senior Fellow, Emeritus Thomas Gale Moore served for four years in the US Navy during the Korean War.
Sam Nunn (US Coast Guard)
Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow Sam Nunn served in both active duty and in reserve for the US Coast Guard.
William J. Perry (US Army)
Senior Fellow Emeritus William Perry was an enlisted man in the Army Corps of Engineers during the US occupation of Japan after World War II. He later joined the Army Reserves in 1950, serving as an officer until 1955. In 1994, Perry became the 19th US Secretary of Defense.
Gary Roughead (US Navy)
Robert and Marion Oster Distinguished Military Fellow Gary Roughead served in the US Navy for nearly forty years. He has been the chief of six operational commands and is one of only two navy officers ever to have commanded both the Atlantic and the Pacific fleets. He also has served as commandant of the US Naval Academy and as the navy’s chief of legislative affairs. From 2007 to 2011, he was the 29th chief of naval operations.
Jacquelyn Schneider (US Air Force)
Hoover Fellow Jacquelyn Schneider was an active duty intelligence officer in the US Air Force for six years. She has served in the strategy and plans shop at US Cyber Command and as an intelligence analyst in support of U‑2 pilots flying over the Korean Peninsula.
Raj Shah (US Air Force)
Visiting Fellow Raj Shah is a veteran of the US Air Force with multiple deployments as an F-16 pilot. He recently served as the managing partner of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit–Experimental (DIUx), reporting to the US Secretary of Defense.
George P. Shultz (US Marine Corps)
Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow George Shultz was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the US Marine Corps Reserves in 1943. From August to October 1944, he deployed with the 81st Infantry Division as a battalion liaison officer and participated in the seizure, defense, and occupation of Angaur Island, Palau Group, against Japanese forces.
Abraham D. Sofaer (US Air Force)
Senior Fellow, Emeritus Abraham Sofaer is a veteran of the US Air Force.
Thomas Sowell (US Marine Corps)
Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell served in the US Marine Corps as a photographer from 1951 to 1952 during the period of the Korean War.
John B. Taylor (US Navy)
George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics John. B. Taylor was commissioned in 1969 as an officer in the US Navy and was assigned to the Antisubmarine Warfare Systems Project Office.
Pete Wilson (US Marine Corps)
Distinguished Visiting Fellow Pete Wilson served as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps from 1955 to 1958.
The Hoover community would also like to acknowledge its 2020–21 National Security Affairs Fellows, seven of whom are distinguished military officers who have taken a sabbatical from their operational duties to spend their academic year at Hoover and pursue independent research:
Denny R. Davies (US Air Force)
Denny Davies is a C-130 pilot and former squadron commander in the US Air Force. He has served in the US Air Forces in Europe, Pacific Air Forces, Air Mobility Command, Headquarters Air Force, US Indo-Pacific Command, and the Joint Staff. He deployed to southwest Asia six times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Kenneth J. del Mazo (US Marine Corps)
Kenneth del Mazo is an artillery officer in the US Marine Corps. A veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Del Mazo has served as operational planner of US Marine Forces South, focusing on crisis response in the Caribbean and Latin America, as well as integration with the Colombian Marine Corps. He recently commanded the First Battalion, 11th Marines, an artillery battalion in the First Marine Division.
Eldridge Singleton (US Army)
Eldridge “Raj” Singleton is a foreign area officer (FAO) in the US Army. He has served as chief of the FAO Assignments Branch at US Army Human Resources Command; in US embassies as the senior defense official and defense attaché to Belize, interim senior defense attaché to Jamaica, army attaché to Bolivia, and security cooperation officer in Haiti; and in multiple combat roles in Iraq as a special forces and infantry officer.
Steven Skipper (US Air Force)
Steven Skipper leads all force development and career management activities for nonrated Air Force officers and personnel. Prior to this assignment, Skipper was commander of the Fifth Communications Squadron at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, supporting B-52 bomber and intercontinental ballistic missions. Among Skipper’s previous assignments was as commander of the 380th Expeditionary Communications Squadron in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Combined Task Force–Horn of Africa.
John Souders (US Coast Guard)
John “Jack” Souders is a US Coast Guard officer specializing in emergency response and law enforcement operations as an MH-65 helicopter pilot. During his 18-year career, he has disrupted transnational criminal organizations at sea, flown post-hurricane search-and-rescue missions, and protected the National Capital Region Flight Restricted Zone as a Rotary Wing Air Intercept pilot.
Jeffrey Vanak (US Navy)
Jeffrey Vanak is an intelligence officer in the US Navy. He has served on multiple operational assignments, including deployments on board the USS Eisenhower and to Afghanistan, East Africa, and Iraq. Most recently, he has served at US Pacific Fleet, providing intelligence and planning support focused on warfighting and great power competition in the Indo-Pacific.
James Wiese (US Army)
James Wiese is an infantry officer in the US Army. He has served in the special operations community in a number of leadership positions in deployments to Afghanistan, Germany, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. He led an air assault infantry platoon during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and, later, an airborne infantry company deployed along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
