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About Douglas J. Feith

 

Douglas J. Feith is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute. As Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005, Mr. Feith helped shape the U.S. government’s strategy for the war on terrorism. His duties included managing the Defense Department’s international relations and representing the Department in interagency policy making.

Mr. Feith contributed to policy making for the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns and helped plan the worldwide changes in the U.S. defense posture. He played a role in developing new U.S. strategic partnerships with India and Pakistan, promoting NATO enlargement and crafting a new U.S. policy toward China. He advised President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on the range of national security issues, including the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, the counter-insurgency in Colombia and Palestinian-Israeli peace diplomacy.

Before President Bush appointed him in July 2001, Mr. Feith was for fifteen years the managing attorney of the Washington, D.C. law firm Feith & Zell, P.C. In the Reagan Administration, Mr. Feith worked at the White House as a Middle East specialist for the National Security Council and then served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy. After each of his Pentagon tours, Mr. Feith received the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Defense Department’s highest civilian award. 

Mr. Feith’s writings on foreign and defense affairs have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Commentary, The New Republic and elsewhere.  He has contributed chapters to a number of books, including: James W. Muller, ed., Churchill as Peacemaker; Douglas J. Feith et al., Israel’s Legitimacy in Law and History; and Uri Ra’anan et al., Hydra of Carnage: International Linkages of Terrorism. He is the author of War and Decision:  Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, published in April 2008 by HarperCollins.

Mr. Feith holds a J.D. (magna cum laude) from the Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College.