Victory Is Not an Option
Audio Interview with Lt. Gen. William E. Odom (Ret.)
"The war was not in our interest. It was in the interest of
Iran and Al Qaeda. How can you win a war that's
accomplishing the goals of your enemy?"
Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a
Senior Fellow with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale
University. As Director of the National Security Agency from
1985 to 1988, he was responsible for the nation's signals
intelligence and communications security. From 1981 to 1985,
he served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the
Army's senior intelligence officer.
From 1977 to 1981, General Odom was Military Assistant to
the President's Assistant for National Security Affairs,
Zbigniew Brzezinski. As a member of the National Security
Council staff, he worked upon strategic planning, Soviet
affairs, nuclear weapons policy, telecommunications policy,
and Persian Gulf security issues. He graduated from the
United States Military Academy in 1954, and received a Ph.D.
from Columbia University in 1970.
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