Category: Senior Research Fellows

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW: AMBASSADOR EDWARD MARKS Ambassador Marks was appointed to the Foreign Service in 1956 with early assignments mainly in Africa. Senior positions included Ambassador to the Republics of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, the Department of State’s Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Visiting Senior Fellow on terrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies […]

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW: PROFESSOR SHANNON E. FRENCH, Ph.D. Shannon French is the Inamori Professor in Ethics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) where she teaches for the department of Philosophy and the School of Law and the CGSC Foundation’s General Hugh Shelton Distinguished Visiting Chair of Ethics. Prior to coming to CWRU in 2008, she […]

Is it worthwhile to send Western tanks to Ukraine?  Simons Center Senior Research Fellow, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Gordon B. “Skip” Davis Jr., former U.S. Army Director of Operations at U.S. European Command and NATO’s former Deputy Assistant Secretary General argues that since Western tanks can outperform their Russian counterparts, that the decision to send these […]

With Ukraine and NATO allies meeting to discuss arms shipments in Brussels on February 14, Simons Center Senior Research Fellow, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Gordon B. “Skip” Davis Jr., former U.S. Army Director of Operations at U.S. European Command and NATO’s former Deputy Assistant Secretary General, says it’s time to send combat aircraft.  Davis argues that […]

On April 26, 2022, Simons Center Senior Research Fellow, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Gordon B. “Skip” Davis Jr., delivered remarks to the American European Community Association regarding the impact of the war on Ukraine on the future of NATO’s strategic concept. Davis, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Defense Investment, contends that NATO’s “next Strategic Concept […]

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW REFLECTS ON THE NECESSITY OF ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING STANDARDS In his personal blog, Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Robert Caslen reflects on the West Point honor code asserting that while the Corps of Cadets “understands the importance of character within a leader who does not lie, cheat or steal, but they struggle to understand […]

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW: ROBERT L. CASLEN, LIEUTENANT GENERAL (RETIRED), U.S. ARMY Robert L. Caslen is a United States veteran who served in the U.S. Army for 43 years. His military career culminated in 2018 as the 59th superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also served as the 29th president of […]

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW COMMENTS ON NATO’S NEED TO IMPROVE ITS MILITARY POWER In a piece published for the Center for European Policy Analysis on March 23rd, Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Gordon “Skip” Davis argues that NATO must readdress its approach for deterrence of Russia. While Davis acknowledges a significant growth in NATO’s military power since 2014, […]

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW: GORDON B. “SKIP” DAVIS JR, MAJOR GENERAL (RETIRED), U.S. ARMY Gordon “Skip” Davis is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He recently served as NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Defense Investment. Prior to NATO, Skip served 37 years in the U.S. Army retiring as a Major General. […]