Odom, William E.

Biographical Note

1932, June 23 Born, Cookeville, Tenn. 1954 B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Commissioned 2d lieutenant, United States Army 1954 1960 Duty with troops in West Germany and United States 1962 Married Anne Weld Curtis M.A., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1964 1966 Member, United States military liaison mission to group of Soviet forces in Potsdam, Germany 1966 1969 Assistant professor of government, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. 1970 Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1970 1971 Staff of Plans, Policy, Programs, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), Vietnam 1971 1972 Visiting scholar, Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1972 1974 Assistant army attaché, United States Embassy, Moscow, USSR 1974 Published The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1974 1975 Associate, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1974 1977 Associate professor, Department of Social Science, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. 1975 1976 Associate member, Columbia University Seminar on Communism, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1975 1977 Senior research associate, Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 1977 1981 Military assistant to the assistant to the president for national security affairs 1981 1985 Assistant chief of staff for intelligence, United States Army 1985 1988 Director, National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, Md. 1988 Director, national security studies, Hudson Institute, Indianapolis, Ind. 1989 Adjunct professor, political science, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1992 Published On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press Published Trial After Triumph. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hudson Institute 1993 Published America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure After the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: American University Press 1998 Published The Collapse of the Soviet Military. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 2003 Published Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press

From the guide to the William E. Odom Papers, 1918-1992, (bulk 1977-1988), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)