Dr. Don M. Snider
- Position: Visiting Research Professor
- U.S. Military Academy
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Dr. Don Snider is a Visiting Research Professor within SSI’s Strategic Research and Analysis Department. He is on leave from the faculty at the U.S. Military Academy. His focus while at SSI is to edit the revised edition of The Future of the Army Profession, to be published in 2005. His appointment to the USMA faculty followed an aggressive military career in the Army, five years in Washington DC as analyst and director of political-military research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and three years at the Olin Distinguished Professor of National Security Studies at West Point. His research interests include military innovation and adaptation, American civil-military relations, the identities of the American Army officer, officer development and military professions. Snider has numerous articles in such publications as Parameters, Military Review, Armed Forces and Society, World Policy Journal, Orbis, The Washington Quarterly, Air Power Review, Joint Forces Quarterly and Armed Forces Journal International, to name a few. He is also published in such major national newspapers as The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Constitution-Journal and The Chicago Tribune. As an Army officer, Snider served three combat tours in Vietnam, a Battalion Commander with the 7th Infantry Division and Chief of Plans for Theater Army. He then joined the staff of the National Security Council in the White House in 1987 as Director, Defense Policy, serving in both the Reagan and Bush (George H. W.) administrations. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Maryland and Master’s degrees in economics and public policy from the University of Wisconsin. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Affairs, New York, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.
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SSI Publications by Dr. Don M. Snider
- Added October 06, 2009
- Type: Monograph
- The Army's Professional Military Ethic in an Era of Persistent Conflict.
- Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider, Major Paul Oh, Major Kevin Toner.
- As the character of conflict in the 21st century evolves, the Army’s strength will continue to rest on our values, our ethos, and our people. Our Soldiers and leaders must remain true to these values as they operate in increasingly complex environments where moral-ethical failures can have strategic implications.
- Added February 19, 2008
- Type: Monograph
- Dissent and Strategic Leadership of the Military Professions.
- Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider.
- Were the actions in 2006 by the senior military leaders who participated in the “Revolt of the Generals” justified? Or were there real costs incurred by the military professions they represented, costs that can only be seen when examined in terms of the critical trust relationship that empower such professions?
- Added December 01, 1999
- Type: Book
- Army Professionalism, the Military Ethic, and Officership in the 21st Century.
- Authored by Major John A. Nagl, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Pfaff, Dr. Don M. Snider.
- The authors first describe the ethical, technical, and political components of military professionalism and then address the causes for the decline. They conclude by proposing a set of principles which, if adhered to, will reinvigorate the vision of the officer corps and motivate the corps to selfless service.
- Added March 01, 1995
- Type: Book
- The National Security Strategy: Documenting Strategic Vision Second Edition.
- Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider.
- The Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act requires the President to submit an annual report on the National Security Strategy. In theory, a formal presentation of grand strategy was intended to lend coherence to the budgeting process; a clear statement of interests, objectives, and concepts for achieving them gave Congress a clear idea of the resources required to support the President's strategy.
- Added February 01, 1993
- Type: Book
- Strategy, Forces and Budgets: Dominant Influences in Executive Decision Making, Post-Cold War, 1989-91.
- Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider.
- The monograph illuminates the critical series of events that resulted in the development of the National Military Strategy of the United States and the "base force."
SSI Reports and Editorials by Dr. Don M. Snider
- Added January 13, 2009
- Type: Op-Ed
- The Army's Ethic Suffers under its Retired Generals.
- Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider.
- Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the January 2009 newsletter.
- Added January 04, 2008
- Type: Op-Ed
- Intrepidity . . . And Character Development within the Army Profession.
- Authored by Dr. Don M. Snider.
- Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the January 2008 newsletter.