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, Emeritus, 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.
David L. Goldfein (US Air Force)
Distinguished Visiting Fellow David L. Goldfein was the 21st US Air Force chief of staff. A graduate of the US Air Force Academy and pilot, he has flown combat missions in operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Allied Force, and Enduring Freedom. He has also served as Air Force vice chief and director of the joint staff at the Pentagon.
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 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.
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 twenty-sixth 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 nineteenth 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 twenty-ninth 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.
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.
In Memoriam
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.
The Hoover community would like to acknowledge its 2021–22 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:
Lt. Col. Jennifer Ann Branigan Carns (US Air Force)
Lt. Col. Jennifer Carns is a cyberspace officer with a focus on expeditionary communications, having served in United States European Command, Air Forces Central Command, and the Air Staff. She commanded an engineering installation squadron, a communications squadron, and a postal detachment. Carns deployed to Southwest Asia four times in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Most recently, she served as the executive assistant to the chief of staff of the Air Force.
Col. Drew Conover (US Army)
Col. Drew Conover was commissioned as an infantry officer in 2001 and served in assignments throughout the continental United States and Germany, where he deployed multiple times to both Iraq and Afghanistan. Conover commanded the First Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment in the First Infantry Division, from 2018 to 2020 in Eastern Europe. Prior to his fellowship at Hoover, Conover served as the operations officer for the Fourth Infantry Division at Fort Carson.
Lt. Col. Michael E. Feuquay (US Marine Corps)
Lt. Col. Michael E. Feuquay served in a variety of command and support roles throughout his nineteen-year career as a financial management officer. He deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as the First Marine Division comptroller. He has served as company commander with First Recruit Training Battalion at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, California, and as deputy comptroller with the Third Marine Division. During his tour with the Third Marine Division, he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, as the officer in charge of the Afghan reintegration program. In addition, Feuquay has served as head of the Ground Financial Management Branch with Marine Forces Command, comptroller of Second Marine Logistics Group, and commander of the Marine Corps’ Financial Management School.
Capt. Lushan Hannah (US Coast Guard)
Capt. Lushan Hannah’s Coast Guard career includes operational experience in Southern California, New Orleans, and throughout the Pacific Rim. Throughout his career, Hannah has built partnerships with public- and private-sector teams to bolster maritime security, clean up pollution, conduct search and rescue, and respond to natural disasters. Most recently, he was the commanding officer of the Pacific Strike Team, responsible for mitigating hazardous material incidents for the Western United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and the Pacific Territories.
Lt. Cdr. Brian Harrington (US Navy)
Lt. Cdr. Brian Harrington is a surface warfare officer with tours on board guided-missile destroyers and an expeditionary riverine squadron. He has served as a combat systems officer, weapons officer, boarding and force protections officer, and rescue swimmer for afloat operations in US Pacific Command, US Central Command, US European Command, the Horn of Africa, and expeditionary operations in Southeast Iraq. Most recently, Harrington served as the operations and plans officer at Task Force Six Four, the Sixth Fleet’s integrated air and missile defense cell in Naples, Italy.
Lt. Col. Oliver Lause (US Air Force)
Lt. Col. Oliver Lause is an Air Force fighter pilot and former F-16 squadron commander with operational flying tours and staff assignments in the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the United States. He has flown combat missions in Afghanistan and alert missions for homeland defense, and was an instructor at the Air Force Weapons School. Most recently, Lause was the executive assistant to the supreme allied commander Europe and commander, United States European Command.
Lt. Col. Keith B. Miller (US Army)
Lt. Col. Keith Miller was commissioned as an armor officer in 2001. He served as a cavalry troop executive officer during the invasion of Iraq and later as a reconnaissance commander during the surge. Following these deployments, he transitioned to strategic intelligence, advising senior Department of Defense decision makers on strategic indications and warnings, threat analysis, and intelligence activities focusing on intentions, geography, and military capabilities of foreign nations. He has also served in multiple staff and leadership positions at several global combatant commands, most notably US Special Operations, US European Command, and US Southern Command. Miller has extensive experience in unconventional warfare operations, transnational criminal organizations, and travel throughout Europe, Turkey, and the post-Soviet states.
The Hoover Institution would also like to recognize its inaugural class of Veteran Fellows. The ten veterans, representing four branches of the armed services, were selected for this prestigious program based on their demonstrated leadership and success as midcareer professionals in the private sector, as well as their commitment to the Hoover Institution’s overall mission of advancing ideas for free societies. During their fellowship, they will develop actionable solutions to policy challenges in their respective communities, including those impacting governments, businesses, workforces, schools, public health systems, and the security and safety of their fellow citizens.
Megan Andros (US Army)
Megan Andros served for five years in the US Army. A graduate of the US Military Academy, she served as an ordinance officer in the Army’s First Cavalry Division and is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Alexander Bastoky (US Army)
Alexander Bastoky served for six years in the US Army. He was a tank platoon leader in the US Army’s First Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, and deployed to the Republic of Korea during the 2017–18 North Korea crisis. Finally, he served as a company and troop commander, training and leading cavalry scouts before finishing his active duty in 2020.
Philip Caruso (US Air Force)
Philip Caruso served for seven years on active duty in the US Air Force, including two deployments to Afghanistan. Now a reserve officer, he serves as a deputy military adviser to the US mission to the United Nations and as chairman of the board of directors at No One Left Behind, a national nonprofit focused on advocacy and resettlement assistance for the Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrant Visa programs.
George “Donnie” Hasseltine (US Marine Corps)
Donnie Hasseltine served in Marine Corps assignments including infantry, recruiting, and staff positions. He was commander of the First Reconnaissance Battalion and a veteran of combat deployments in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is a board member of the Marine Reconnaissance Foundation, which works in support of reconnaissance Marines and their families.
Peter Koziol (US Navy)
A graduate of the US Naval Academy, Peter Koziol served for six years as a naval nuclear submarine officer in San Diego and as a flag aide at the Pentagon.
Nick Mastronardi (US Air Force)
Nick Mastronardi served as an active-duty officer in the US Air Force for ten years, including time on the faculty at the Air Force Academy, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon, and as a research physicist and advanced munitions technology program manager at the Air Force Research Lab.
Robert Murray (US Air Force)
Robert Murray is a twenty-five-year veteran of the US Air Force with combat experience.
Mary Kate Soliva (US Army)
Mary Kate Soliva served in the US Army with a combined service of twelve years. Currently, she is a reservist soldier in the 312th Tactical Psychological Operations Company. Previously, she served on active duty as a health care specialist at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and as a psychological operations soldier with Bravo Company, Fifth Psychological Operations Battalion (Airborne).
Mike Steadman (US Marine Corps)
A graduate of the US Naval Academy, Mike Steadman served in the US Marine Corps for five years. As an infantry officer, he served on deployments to Afghanistan, the Philippines, and Japan.
Dave Winnacker (US Marine Corps)
Dave Winnacker has served in the US Marine Corps since 1997 in active-duty and reserve capacities, including as commanding officer of the Fourth Force Reconnaissance Company and the deputy commander of the 23rd Marine Regiment.
