CSBA Hires Barry Watts as Senior Fellow


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CSBA Hires Barry Watts as Senior Fellow

Alise Frye	Published 08/26/2002 Press Release

Contact: Alise Frye		PHONE: (202) 331-7990
August 26, 2002		FAX: (202) 331-8019

The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments is pleased to announce the addition of Barry Watts as a Senior Fellow to its team of top researchers and analysts.

Most recently, Watts headed the Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation at the Department of Defense, a position he held for 13 months. Prior to that time, Watts directed the Northrop Grumman Analysis Center, where he had served since his retirement from the Air Force in 1986.

During his Air Force career, Mr. Watts served as a combat pilot in Southeast Asia, flying 158 combat missions, 100 over North Vietnam. His service also included teaching philosophy and mathematical logic at the Air Force Academy; working in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment writing Korean and NATO-Warsaw Pact assessments; and working for the Air Staff’s Project Checkmate as a Soviet threat specialist.

Mr. Watts holds a BS in mathematics from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MA in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. He has written on a wide variety of military topics. Some of his published works include: “Fire, Movement and Tactics,” on air-to-air combat tactics in Top Gun Journal; “Military Innovation in Peacetime,” a chapter analyzing military innovations from 1918 to 1939 in Military Innovation during the Interwar Years; “Choosing Analytic Measures,” with current Secretary of the Air Force James Roche published in Journal of Strategic Studies; and Clausewitzian Friction and Future War a book on Clausewitzian friction and nonlinearity. In February 2001, CSBA published his work The Military Use of Space: A Diagnostic Assessment.

“Barry brings an exceptional background of military and public service as well as corporate management and strong academic research to the CSBA staff,” said Dr. Andrew Krepinevich, executive director of CSBA. “His talent and experience are a welcome addition to CSBA.”

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The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) is an independent policy research institute established to promote innovative thinking about defense planning and investment strategies for the 21st century.