Gary James Schmitt (b.?) is a Neocon best known to be executive director of the PNAC from 1998 to 2005. He is now a resident scholar and director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Program on Advanced Strategic Studies. Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered new forms of conservatism. ... The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC, USA based think tank. ... The American Enterprise Institutes Logo The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative to right-wing[1] think tank, founded in 1943. ...

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Dr. Schmitt is a graduate of the University of Dallas (B.A./1974) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D./1980).

In the early 1980s, Dr. Schmitt was a member of the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and, from 1982-1984, served as the committee's minority staff director. From 1984 to 1988 he held the post of executive director of President Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

Since then, he has held visiting fellowships at the National Interest, a foreign policy journal, and the centrist Brookings Institution, served as Coordinator for the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence's Working Group on Intelligence Reform, and worked as a consultant to the Department of Defense. In addition, he has been an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. The national interest, often referred to by the French term raison détat, is a countrys goals and ambitions whether economic, military, or cultural. ... The Brookings Institution is a United States nonprofit public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C.. Described in 1977, by TIME magazine as as the nations pre-eminent liberal think tank,[1] the institution is devoted to public service through research and education in the social sciences, particularly... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ...

Schmitt helped found and direct the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a key neoconservative letterhead group formed in 1997 that played a leading role advocating war in Iraq.

He is the co-author with Abram Shulsky, of "Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence" (2002) Abram Shulsky is a noted U.S. government intelligence analyst, serving most recently as Director of the Office of Special Plans, heading its Iranian Directorate. ...

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