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RICHARD J. HOFFMAN
Director, Center for Civil-Military Relations
Prior to becoming the Director of the Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) in November of 2004, Richard J. (Rich) Hoffman served as Executive Director of the Center from 1996 to 2004. As Director, he oversees the development and coordination of the Center's global education programs in Civil-Military Relations; Policy and Strategy development in a Democracy; Combating Terrorism; and Stability and Reconstruction Operations. Under Rich's direction, CCMR recently produced a volume edited by Thomas C. Bruneau and Scott D. Tollefson on civil-military relations entitled Who Guards the Guardians and How: Democratic Civil-Military Relations, published by University of Texas Press, 2006. The next book sponsored by CCMR, also with the University of Texas Press, is edited by Thomas Bruneau and Steve Boraz, Reforming Intelligence: Obstacles to Democratic Control and Effectiveness, will appear in May 2007.
The Center for Civil-Military Relations is an outreach component
of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and provides
Defense Security Cooperation education programs throughout the globe.
In fiscal year 2006, CCMR conducted 121 programs involving 4,500
international participants from 102 countries. In addition CCMR
also provided mission-specific pre-deployment education to almost
14,000 U.S. personnel deploying to missions abroad. As an NPS Senior
Lecturer, he also teaches graduate courses in civil-military relations,
policy and strategy development, military history, and joint and
combined operations in the NPS Department of National Security Affairs.
Before joining CCMR in 1996, Rich served for more than 24 years in the U.S.
Army. His last assignments include duty as Assistant Deputy Chief
of Staff for Operations of the Sixth U.S. Army, responsible for
oversight of Army Reserve Component Readiness and Military Support
to Civil Authorities in the twelve western United States, and duty
as a strategic plans officer in the U.S. Mission to NATO from 1989
to 1993, where he led the Office of the Secretary of Defense's effort
in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty negotiations, and the
development of policy and strategy for NATO's peacekeeping capabilities.
During his military career, Rich served in numerous command and
staff positions with armored units in both the U.S. and Germany.
Richard Hoffman holds a bachelor’s degree in National Security
Affairs from the U.S. Military Academy, and masters degrees in history
and political science from Stanford University. While at Stanford,
he served as a graduate teaching assistant and assisted in the preparation
of Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time by
Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George.
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