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)