Loren B. Thompson
Dr. Loren B. Thompson is Chief Operating Officer of the Lexington Institute. "Thompson's main job at Lexington is to oversee security studies, the institute's largest project.
"Dr. Thompson is a long-time advisor to high-tech companies, the federal government, and foundations. He conducts most of his for-profit activities through Source Associates, a consulting firm that he heads in Northern Virginia. The areas on which he advises Source clients range from nonlethal weapons to industrial policy to military strategy.
"For twenty years, Dr. Thompson has taught graduate-level courses at Georgetown University in military strategy, new technology, and the media (he currently teaches 'Emerging Technologies and Security'). During the 1980s, he was Deputy Director of Georgetown's Security Studies Program, part of the university's School of Foreign Service. He has also taught classes at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
"Dr. Thompson is widely quoted on military affairs in the national media, having been interviewed by every major newspaper and broadcast network. His commentaries have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. He has also been interviewed by overseas media such as The Economist, the Financial Times, and Al Jazeera.
"Dr. Thompson holds a Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University. He was born in 1951 and currently resides in McLean, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts."
Loren Thompson was a Senior Fellow of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) where he was also Executive Director of the national-security program during the 1990's.
During that time Loren Thomson wrote, sometimes together with Jim Courter (a former(?) chairman of the 'Committee for the Common Defense' at AdTI) or Merrick Carey (until early 1998 President of the AdTI and founder of the Lexington Institute), a lot of defense related articles for the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution like:
- Outsourcing Defense?, Investor's Business Daily, January 17, 1996
- Defense Merger Myths and Realities, 1997?
- What Is The Bomber's Role?, Defense News, January 6-12, 1997
- Welfare Threatens to Capsize Nation's Defense Apparatus, National Defense, February 1997
- Defense Outsourcing: The Coming Revolution, Sea Power, February 1997
- Rhetoric vs. Reality in Pentagon Reform: The Defense Commissary Agency, AdTI Issue Brief, June 23, 1997
- Army Vision and the Transformation of Land Power in the Next Century, Strategic Review, Summer 1997
- The Cold-War Defense Industry: Gone Nova, or Just Plain Gone?, Spotlight on Finance, September 1997
- "Private-Public Competition -- Bad Proposition That Refuses To Die", National Defense, October, 1997
- Marine Corps Tilts Into the Future, Sea Power, November 1997
- "Politics By Other Means", Armed Forces Journal International, January 1998
- Defense Panel Pushes Trident Conversion, The Submarine Review, January 1998
- U.S. Forces Will Benefit from Knowing Where Enemy Is, Air Force Times, January 12, 1998
- How To Keep a Closer Watch on Saddam, AdTI Defense Issue Brief, March 23, 1998
- Reinventing Socialism in South Carolina?, AdTI Issue Brief, April 1, 1998
- Quarterback of the Digital Battlefield: The Comanche Helicopter, Armed Forces Journal International, April 1998
- New Attack Submarine: Undersea Warfare Connects With The Revolution, Sea Power, April 1998
Other Related SourceWatch Resources
External links
- Statement of Dr. Loren B. Thompson, March 12, 1997
- The B-2 Boondoggle, Multinational Monitor, September 1997
- Biography, Dr. Loren B. Thompson, Jr., Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 2001
- Time for the Bush Military Build-up, Center for Security Policy, January 7, 2002
- Survival Guide: Perspectives from the field, Loren Thompson, COO of the Lexington Institute, Washington Technology, June 7, 2004
