Colonel Kenneth Allard, US Army (Ret)

Drafted immediately after graduation from college, Allard served on the West Point Faculty as Dean of the National War College and as a NATO peacekeeper in Bosnia.  He served as Special Assistant to the Army Chief of Staff and was a technical advisor for 1998’s PBS Frontline special “Ambush in Mogadishu>”  Once retired from the military, he became a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a commentator on foreign policy and security issues.  For more than a decade, Allard was a featured military analyst on NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC … an experience provided the backdrop for his book, Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War. Allard now writes regular columns for Family Security Matters and The Washington Times, among others.