posted on Nov. 11, 2003
Paul Wolfowitz


Paul Wolfowitz
PNAC signatory Wolfwitz is Deputy Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush Administration


In the Johnson Administration:

  • 1966-67: Wolfowitz was a Management Intern at the Bureau of the Budget, working on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and nuclear nonproliferation issues

In the Nixon Administration & Ford Administration:

  • 1973-77: various positions in the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, including special assistant to the director for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

  • 1976: member of Team B, the successful effort to derail Carter's foreign policy [see: Ford/Team B, Carter/Team B and Truman/Team B]
In the Carter Administration:
  • 1977-80: (Pentagon's) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs

    "where he helped create the force that later became the United States Central Command and initiated the Maritime Pre-positioning Ships, the backbone of the initial U.S. deployment twelve years later in Operation Desert Shield"[1]

  • 1981-82: Director of policy planning for the Department of State

In the Reagan administration:

  • 1982-86: Assistant Secretary of State (under George Shultz?) for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

  • 1986-89: U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia

In the George HW Bush Administration:

  • 1989 to 1993 - Under Secretary of Defense for Policy - the principal civilian official responsible for strategy, plans, and policy under Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney.
On January 1, 1994:

Wolfowitz became dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Nitze was Wolfowitz's role model. See:Truman Administration/Nitze


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