Senior Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies
National Defense University
PNSR Director of Research & Analysis
Dr. Christopher J. Lamb joined the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, in January 2004. He conducts research on national security strategy and policy, and U.S. defense strategy, requirements, plans and programs. His recent research includes studies on defense reform, transformation, global force planning, strategic communications, and special operations forces. Lamb has testified this past year on “Overcoming Interagency Problems” before the House Armed Services Committee’s Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee. He also led the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review working group on Defense Reorganization.
Prior to joining INSS Lamb served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for resources and plans. In this capacity he had oversight of requirements, acquisition, and resource allocation matters for the under secretary of defense (policy). He was responsible for development of the strategic planning guidance, transformation planning guidance and contingency planning guidance, information operations roadmap and for policy oversight of combatant commander contingency planning.
Lamb served previously as the director of policy planning in the office of the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, the deputy director for military development on the state department’s interagency task force for military stabilization in the Balkans, and the director for requirements and plans in the Office of Secretary of Defense.
Lamb received his Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown University in 1986. From 1993 through 1998 he was an adjunct professor in the National Security Studies program at Georgetown University. His publications include U.S. Special Operations Forces with David Tucker (forthcoming, Columbia University Press, 2007); “Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decision Making,” with Irving Lachow, Strategic Forum, Institute for National Strategic Studies, July 2006; two monographs from National Defense University Press in 2005: “Review of Psychological Operations Lessons Learned from Recent Operational Experience,” and "Transforming Defense;” “Guerrilla Warfare,” in The Encyclopedia of US Foreign Relations (1998); “Information Age Technology and Operations Other Than War,” in War in the Information Age (1997); “Peacetime Engagements,” with David Tucker in America’s Armed Forces: A Handbook of Current and Future Capabilities (1996); “Future Roles and Missions of Special Operations Forces,” in Special Warfare (July, 1995); Belief Systems and Decision Making in the Mayaquez Crisis (1989); and How to Think About Arms Control, Disarmament, and Defense (1988).
Lamb has received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Senior Executive Service, the Superior Honor award from the Department of State, and Meritorious Civilian Service awards from the Department of Defense.
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