Clark Murdock (born 1940s) is a senior adviser at

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(CSIS), a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy think tank. Murdock specializes in strategic planning, defense policy, and national security affairs. He also serves as the Director of the

Project on Nuclear Issues The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. CSIS was founded as the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University in 1962. The center conducts policy ...

, a collection of nuclear experts from government, academia, the national laboratories, the military, and the private sector. In 2000, Murdock taught military strategy, the national security process, and military innovation at the

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. From 1995 to 2000, he was deputy director of the headquarters planning function for the

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. As deputy special assistant to the chief for long-range planning, he helped define a coherent strategic vision for the 2020 Air Force and institutionalize a new long-range planning process. As deputy director for strategic planning, he helped implement the new planning process and led the development of several new planning products. Before joining the Air Force, he headed the Policy Planning Staff in the Office of the

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. Murdock has served in many roles in the defense world, including as a senior policy adviser to

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chairman

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, as an analyst and Africa issues manager in the

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, and in the

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. He also taught for 10 years at the

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. He is an honors graduate of

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and holds a Ph.D. in political science from the

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Education

* BA Political Science from

(with honors) * Ph.D. in Political Science (with a minor in economics) from the

Publications

* Transitioning Defense Organizational Initiatives: An Assessment of Key 2001-2008 Defense Reforms, CSIS Publication, 11/12/2008 * Facilitating a Dialogue among Senior-Level DoD Officials on National Security Priorities, CSIS Publication, 04/04/2008 * The Department of Defense and the Nuclear Mission in the 21st Century, CSIS Publication, 03/05/2008 * U.S. Air Force Bomber Modernization Plans: An Independent Assessment, CSIS Publication, 01/25/2008 * Special Operations Forces Aviation, CSIS Publication, 10/26/2007 * Future Making: Getting Your Organization Ready for What’s Next, Murdock Associates, Inc., 09/01/2007 * Debating 21st Century Nuclear Issues, CSIS Publication, 07/24/2007 * Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: An Annotated Brief, CSIS Publication, 08/01/2006 * The Future of the National Guard and Reserves, CSIS Publication, 07/12/2006 * Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Phase 3 Report, CSIS Publication, 07/01/2006 * Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Panel Final Report, CSIS Publication, 01/27/2006 * Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Phase 2 Report, CSIS Publication, 07/28/2005 * Beyond Goldwater-Nichols: Phase 1 Report, CSIS Publication, 03/01/2004 * Improving the Practice of National Security Strategy, CSIS Publication, 02/01/2004 * Conduct of the Military Campaign Against Iraq, CSIS Publication, 03/06/2003 * Revitalizing the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent, CSIS Publication, 2002

References

External links

CSIS Expert Profiles: Clark A. Murdock
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Murdock, Clark A. Year of birth missing (living people) 1940s births Living people Swarthmore College alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers American political scientists