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As President of The Center for Security Policy, Frank Gaffney has led the Washington, D.C. non-partisan educational corporation to a nationally and internationally respected source of timely, informed and penetrating analysis of foreign and security matters.
Mr. Gaffney is the host of “Secure Freedom Radio”, a nationally-syndicated radio program heard weeknights throughout the country. He is an associate author of highly acclaimed “Shariah: The Threat to America” and the publisher of over a dozen other books and monographs from the Center for Security Policy Press. Gaffney contributes to the media, writing opinion pieces on topics such as politics, terrorism, and international affairs.
In April 1987, Mr. Gaffney was nominated by President Reagan to become the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, the senior position in the Defense Department with responsibility for policies involving U.S.-USSR relations, nuclear forces, arms control, missile defense policy and U.S.-European defense ties. During this time, he was the Chairman of the prestigious High Level Group, NATO’s senior politico-military committee. He also represented the Secretary of Defense in key U.S.-Soviet negotiations and ministerial meetings.
From August 1983 until November 1987, Mr. Gaffney was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy under Assistant Secretary Richard Perle.
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General Chrosniak is one of the key leaders of the new EMPact America Pennsylvania Chapter and the recent events in Carlisle, PA.
He has served a total of 36 years of combined duty in the Active, Reserve and National Guard worldwide. After service in Vietnam, General Chrosniak returned to active duty to serve as Assistant Professor of Military Science at Saint Bonaventure University in Olean, NY. After serving as Branch Chief of the Army logistics directorate at the Pentagon, Commander of the 226th Area Support Group in Egypt, and Assistant Chief of Staff of the Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee,
General Chrosniak retired in 1998 as an instructor at the U.S. Army War College where he had previously graduated. He was recalled to active duty in 2002, serving for two years on the Joint Chiefs of Staff helping to write the National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terror at the Pentagon. He then served at the US Embassy in Baghdad. He then served on active duty as Chief of Staff for the Pentagons’ Army Asymmetrical Warfare Office.
General Chrosniak’s awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Award, and the Good Conduct Medal.
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Ambassador R. James Woolsey, a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, was the Director of the CIA from 1993 to 1995. He’s served under Presidents Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, and Clinton. As an officer in the Army, he was a delegate to Strategic Nuclear Talks and served as Under Secretary of the Navy.
Recently his expertise has been focused on National Security and Energy. He co-founded and currently chairs the United States Energy Security Council and as such is working to focus attention on the dangers of a grid down scenario. A recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Institute of World Politics in 2011, he now serves as the Institute’s Chancellor.
He was an advisor on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT 1), General Counsel to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, and a delegate at large for the U.S. during the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks in the 1980’s. He also served as Ambassador for the negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
Woolsey served as Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a non-profit, nonpartisan research institute for foreign policy and national security. Presidential Candidate John McCain used Woolsey as an advisor on energy and climate change during his run for office, and he also served as a senior advisor to Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2016.
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Ambassador Henry F. (Hank) Cooper, Chairman of High Frontier and an acknowledged expert on strategic and space national security issues, was President Ronald Reagan’s Chief Negotiator at the Geneva Defense and Space Talks with the Soviet Union and Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Director during the George H.W. Bush administration.
Previously, he served as the Assistant Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Deputy Assistant USAF Secretary, Science Adviser to the Air Force Weapons Laboratory and a USAF Reserve Captain.
In the private sector he was Chairman of Applied Research Associates, a high technology company; member of the technical staff of Jaycor, R&D Associates and Bell Telephone Laboratories; a Senior Associate of the National Institute for Public Policy; and Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Clemson and a PhD from New York University, all in Mechanical Engineering.
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