Karen Kwiatkowski, Lt. Col. USAF (ret.)
Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the active duty USAF as a Lieutenant Colonel. Her final assignment was as a political-military affairs officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Under Secretary for Policy, in the Sub-Saharan Africa and Near East South Asia (NESA) Policy directorates.
During Col. Kwiatkowski's time at NESA, she worked the North Africa desk, in the sister office to the Office of Special Plans. Prior to the Office of Secretary of Defense assignment, she served on the Air Force Staff, Operations Directorate at the Pentagon, the staff of the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, and served tours in Alaska, Massachusetts, Spain and Italy.
( TODAY'S PROGRAM)
April 2, 2006
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski
U.S. Air Force, 1983-2003
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Col. Kwiatkowski has an MA in Government from Harvard, and MS in Science Management from the University of Alaska, and has completed both Air Command and Staff College and the Naval War College seminar programs. She also holds a Ph.D. in World Politics from Catholic University of America, with a dissertation on Overt/Covert War in Angola: A Case Study of the Implementation of the Reagan Doctrine.
Col. Kwiatkowski has authored two recent books on African issues, African Crisis Response Initiative: Past Present and Future (US Army Peacekeeping Institute, 2000) and Expeditionary Air Operations in Africa: Challenges and Solutions (Air University Press, 2001) and several papers.
She teaches online classes with the University of Maryland University College and American Public University System, and is an adjunct faculty in Political Science with James Madison University.
Col. Kwiatkowski lives on a small farm in western Virginia with the husband and four children, ages 12, 15, 17 and 19. She is a regular contributor to LewRockwell.com, and has had articles about her work with the Department of Defense published recently in the American Conservative.
Dr. Kwiatkowski can be reached at karen@militaryweek.com.
'Without Reservation'
by Dr. Karen Kwiatkowski :
* All the King's Men [13 Feb 06]
* Big Coal Meets Big Iraq [10 Jan 06]
* Women at War [14 Jun 05]
* Eliot Cohen, Confused Again [24 May 05]
* Of Mice and Men [05 May 05]
* A Bolton from the Bush [22 Apr 05]
* Just Say No ... to Empire [31 Mar 05]
* Pentagon Justice? [15 Mar 05]
* Loving That Democracy [03 Mar 05]
* Those Unintended Consequences [02 Feb 05]
* Ballgowns and Hospital Gowns [17 Jan 05]
* What would Jesus do? [23 Dec 04]
* Rights and Responsibilities [14 Dec 04]
* Voices of Reason, or Voices of Treason? [02 Dec 04]
* The Iraq Solution - Coming Sooner Than You Think [16 Nov 04]
* What Are We Doing? [02 Nov 04]
* National Security Conversations We Won't Have Before November 2nd [12 Oct 04]
* "Leadership Matters" [22 Sep 04]
* Military Politics [09 Sep 04]
* Paying the Price for a No-Fault Security Strategy [16 Aug 04]
* Routine Messages from the Pentagon - and the Truth [03 Aug 04]
* Medals or Mettle? [14 Jul 04]
* Rethinking the American Mission [29 Jun 04]
* Grilling Colin Powell and Remembering Ronald Reagan [15 Jun 04]
* Strategies Wanted [03 Jun 04]
* Tell It Like It Is, Mr. President! [26 May 04]
* Full Circle with Ahmad Chalabi [21 May 04]
* "... As Far Up as It Goes" [17 May 04]
* The Tipping Point [06 May 04]
* Military Industrial Complexes [04 May 04]
* Speaking Truth to Power: What's It Good for? [26 Apr 04]
* An Honest Appraisal, and the Way Ahead [13 Apr 04]
* That Audacious Richard Clarke [29 Mar 04]
* Assessing the Bush Doctrine Experiment, One Year Later [15 Mar 04]
* For Empire or Vocation, Ever Forward! [08 Mar 04]
* Commander, USFI? [21 Feb 04]
* Occupational Hazards [10 Feb 04]
Also by Dr. Kwiatkowski :
[first published in The American Conservative, Dec 03/Jan 04]
Part 1 : In Rumsfeld's Shop
Part 2 : Conscientious Objector
Part 3 : Open Door Policy
Other recent articles by Dr. Kwiatkowski :
The new Pentagon papers [Salon, 10 March 04]
LewRockwell.com
See also :
Outside the Inside : Frida Berrigan interviews Karen Kwiatkowski
[In These Times, 12 Apr 04]
Pentagon's Office of Special Plans Under Scrutiny
[audio : National Public Radio, 24 Feb 04]
Interview with Saul Landau ['Hot Talk,' Feb 04]
The Lie Factory [Mother Jones, Jan/Feb 04]
Soldier of the Truth [LA Weekly, 20-26 Feb 04]