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Former USA Military Fellow
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Phone: +1-212-434-9679
E-mail: jcreighton@cfr.org
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New York, NY
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Field Artillery Officer in the U.S. Army. Previously served as the Chief of Staff for Joint Functional Component Command, Space and Global Strike, United States Strategic Command and as the Command of the 10th Mountain Division Artillery.
Expertise:Organizational development; military leadership; army operations and structure; space operations; cooperative security and engagement strategy; strategic deterrence; military strategy and history.
Experience:Chief of Staff, Joint Functional Component Command, Space and Global Strike, U.S. Strategic Command (2005-2006); Executive Assistant to the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command (2004); Commander, 10th Mountain Division Artillery, Fort Drum, NY (2003-2004), with units deployed in support of operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Horn of Africa; Chief Future Combat System Branch, Department of the Army, G8 (2002-2003); Commander, 3rd Battalion 320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), with units deployed in support of operations in Kosovo (1998-2000); Operations Officer, Joint Task Force Bravo, Soto Cano, Honduras (1997); Operations officer, 4th Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment (1990-91); deployed to Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
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