Barry McCaffrey

Barry Richard McCaffrey is president of BR McCaffrey Associates, LLC, a consulting firm based in Arlington, Virginia. General McCaffrey served 32 years in the U.S. Army and retired as a four-star general. "After leaving government service, Barry McCaffrey served for five years (2001-2005) as the Bradley Distinguished Professor of International Security Studies at West Point", where he "continues as an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs." McCaffrey "serves as a national security and terrorism analyst for NBC News and writes a column on national security issues for Armed Forces Journal." [1][2]

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Profiles

McCaffrey served as the director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) from February 29, 1996, through January 7, 2001. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. McCaffrey was also a member of the National Security Council and the President's Drug Policy Council. [3][4]

Just prior to appointment as drug czar, he was the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Southern Command, coordinating national security operations in Latin America. [5]

"During Operation Desert Storm, he commanded the 24th Infantry Division and led the 200-kilometer 'left hook' attack into the Euphrates River Valley." [6]

"McCaffrey served as the JCS assistant to General Colin Powell. While serving as the Director for Strategic Plans and Policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he supported the chairman as the principal JCS Staff advisor to the Secretary of State and to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations." [7]

McCaffrey was awarded the Purple Heart three times and the Silver Star two times. [8][9]

McCaffrey was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1960), the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1964), earned his Masters of Arts in civil government from American University, and attended the Harvard University National Security Program. He taught American government, national security studies and comparative politics at West Point. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an associate member of the Inter-Amencan Dialogue. [10][11][12]

Articles by Barry McCaffrey

• "Rumsfeld in Denial. We won't win in Iraq unless we face reality," WSJ OpinionJournal, November 30, 2003.
• With Morton Abramowitz and Richard Lugar, "What Should Bush Do?" TIME Magazine, April 19, 2004.
• "Beyond Baker-Hamilton. One Approach to a Last Try at Stability in Iraq," Washington Post, December 13, 2006.

Related SourceWatch Resources

• Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
• Exit Strategy from Iraq
• Frederick Kagan
• McCain doctrine
• Rumsfeld and the Generals
• stay the course
• John McCain: U.S. presidential election, 2008
• war in Iraq
• war on drugs

External Links

Profiles

• Profile: General McCaffrey, BR McCaffrey Associates LLC; short bio / long bio.
• Profile: Barry McCaffrey, WashingtonSpeakersBureau. Click on link for full bio.
• Profile: Barry McCaffrey, NNDB.com.
• Profile: Barry McCaffrey, Board of Advisors, National Infantry Foundation.
• Speaker's Biography: Biography of Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Elks National Convention in Chicago, 1997.
• Barry McCaffrey in the Wikipedia.

Reports

• Memorandum: Visit to Guantanamo, June 2006.

Articles & Commentary about Barry McCaffrey

• Alexander Tabborak, "Barry McCaffrey Should Resign," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (Independent Institute), January 20, 2000.
• Dennis Hans, "McCaffrey on 'Weed': Drug Czar’s 1998 Washington Post Op Ed Implied - On No Apparent Evidence - Several NBA Players Had Pot 'Addiction'," The Black World Today (Common Dreams), May 14, 2000.
• "General hits at Gulf 'insults'," BBC, May 16, 2000.
• Seymour Hersh, "Overwhelming Force. What happened in the final days of the Gulf War?" The New Yorker, May 22, 2000.
• Arianna Huffington, "Bye-bye, Barry McCaffrey. Another drug czar leaves a failed tenure in office, declaring victory with a mess of skewed statistics," Salon, October 20, 2000.
• Doug Casey, "Me and Barry McCaffrey," WorldNetDaily, April 19, 2001.
• Michael Moran, "Revenge of the ex-generals. Pummeled by administration counter-fire, war time analysts turned out to be right on target," MSNBC, September 25, 2003.
• SusanUnPC, "'Iraq is abject misery': Gen. Barry McCaffrey," No Quarter Blog, May 31, 2006.
• Jeff Cohen, "Being a TV Expert Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry," Common Dreams, August 4, 2006.
• John Henke, "General Barry McCaffrey," QandO Blog, August 5, 2005.
• "Gen. Barry McCaffrey: Biden's Iraq Troop Numbers Bogus," NewsMax, August 28, 2005.
• Dahr Jamail, "A Broken, De-Humanized Military in Iraq," truthout, September 26, 2006.
• Dick Foster, "General: U.S. Army in danger. Equipment, manpower shortages put the nation in 'strategic peril,' he says," Rocky Mountain News, October 4, 2006.
• John Graham, "Iraq Is Vietnam - And You'd Better Believe It," truthout, December 19, 2006.
• Sidney Blumenthal, Opinion: "Behind Bush's 'new way forward'. A battered group of neocons delivered the president his latest war plan, letting him reject the grave warnings of the Iraq Study Group and deny that we're losing the war," Salon, December 20, 2006.