Distinguished Visiting Speaker Program - April 16-18, 2008

Biography

CENTER FOR ARMS CONTROL AND NON PROLIFERATION

Colonel William Hauser, U.S. Army

William Locke Hauser retired in 1994 as director of executive development for Pfizer Inc. A career U. S. Army officer (1954-79) before entering business, he remains involved with the military as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as a fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society, and as a sometime consultant on officer development to the Department of Defense and to the armed forces committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

A graduate of West Point, he later taught there, including a term as a Fulbright-Hays exchange fellow at the University of Singapore . He served with troops in the U. S. , Germany , Korea , and Vietnam , holding battalion command in combat in Vietnam and brigade command in Germany . During general-staff service in the Pentagon, he participated in major studies on officer and NCO professional development; and, in lieu of war-college attendance, was a research fellow at Johns Hopkins University ’s School of Advanced International Studies . On leave from Pfizer, he headed a military manpower team on the presidential Grace Commission on government effectiveness.

In addition to journal articles, book chapters, reviews and op-ed pieces which have appeared in the Military Review, Army, Armed Forces Journal, Defense Analysis and the New York Times Book Review, among others, he has published one book, America's Army in Crisis (Johns Hopkins, 1973). In his “third career” of writing fiction, he has published more than twenty short stories and narrative essays.