Bruce Jackson
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Bruce Jackson is the president of the United States Committee on NATO.
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[edit] Professional Positions
- Served in the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer, 1979-1980.
- Served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, holding a variety of positions pertaining to nuclear forces and arms control, 1986-1990.
- Worked for Lehman Brothers, as a strategist for proprietary trading operations, 1990-1993.
- Served as the Vice President for Strategy and Planning at Lockheed Martin, 1993-2002.
[edit] Political Roles
- Dole for President: National Co-Chairman of Finance Committee 1995-1996.
- Republican National Convention: Platform Committee and Platform Subcommittee for National Security and Foreign Policy, 1996.
- 2000 Republican National Convention: Chair of Platform Subcommittee for Foreign Policy, presidential campaign (George W. Bush).
[edit] Think Tank and Non-profit affiliations
- Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
- Currently serves on the Board of Advisors at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and is the President of the Project on Transitional Democracies.
- Currently serves on the advisory board at the New Atlantic Initiative, a group whose objective "is to strengthen Atlantic cooperation in the post-cold war world by bringing together Americans and Europeans to work toward common goals", a group within the American Enterprise Initiative.
- Currently serves on the National Security Advisory Council at the Center for Security Policy, a group that promotes "international peace through American strength".
- Previously the Chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a non-profit organisation set-up in late 2002 that pushed for the ousting of Saddam Hussein.
- Currently the President of the US Committee on NATO, a non-profit organisation that promotes NATO expansion and strengthening the American-European Relationship.
- The founder and President of the Project on Transitional Democracies for the Project for the New American Century, a group whose goal is "to promote American global leadership". The organization was formed in 1997.
[edit] Eastern Europe Relations
- Jackson was influential in the United States attaining the support of Eastern European states for the war in Iraq.
- A long-time proponent of NATO expansion, Jackson had considerable success lobbying Eastern European countries to support US policy in Iraq. He helped draft a declaration for the Vilnius Ten countries in February 2003, rebuking French President Jacques Chirac's position on Iraq. He convinced the Vilnius Ten countries to sign the declaration, telling them that it would help win the US Senate's approval of their admission to NATO. The declaration stated: "The newest members of the European community agree that we must confront the tyranny of Saddam Hussein and that the United Nations must now act". According to writer John Judis, "The declaration provided ammunition for the administration, but it also created a furor in Western Europe and even in some of the Vilnius Ten countries, where the public, and even the governments, did not want to be identified as part of what one Slovenian writer termed the 'war coalition'." (John Judis, "Below the Beltway", The American Prospect, May 2003, pp.12; "Minister Without Portfolio", The American Prospect, January 2003[1]).
