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Jan van Tol, Senior Fellow

Jan M. van Tol is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Prior to his retirement from the Navy in 2007, Captain van Tol served as special adviser in the Office of the Vice-President. He was a military assistant to Andrew W. Marshall, the Secretary of Defense’s Principle Advisor for Net Assessment from 1993-96 and again from 2001-2003. At sea, he commanded three warships, the last of which, USS ESSEX (LHD-2), was a major participant in post-tsunami relief efforts off Sumatra, Indonesia.

Captain van Tol’s analytic work has focused mainly on long-range strategic planning, military innovation, and wargaming.

He holds degrees in philosophy and logic from the University of Massachusetts and in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School, and graduated with distinction from the Naval War College.

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A Cooperative Strategy for the 21st Century Seapower
Backgrounder
(PDF file - opens in new window)
By Robert Work and Jan van Tol

03/26/2008
alliances, competitive/grand strategies, dod strategy and policy, navy, service-focused analysis

The backgrounder offers a general assessment of A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, highlighting its nature,origins, strengths and weaknesses.