Early life and education Schmitt graduated from the University of Dallas in 1974 with a B.A. and the University of Chicago in 1980 with a Ph.D.  Career In the early 1980s, Schmitt worked as a member of the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and, from 1982 to 1984, served as the committee's minority staff director. From 1984 to 1988 he held the post of executive director of President Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Since then, he has held visiting fellowships at the National Interest, a foreign policy journal, and the centrist Brookings Institution, served as Coordinator for the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence's Working Group on Intelligence Reform, and worked as a consultant to the Department of Defense. In addition, he has been an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Schmitt helped found and direct the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a key neoconservative letterhead group formed in 1997 that played a leading role advocating war in Iraq. In April 2012, Schmitt became co-director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute where he previously served as director of the Program on Advanced Strategic Studies. Books  Safety, Liberty and Islamist Terrorism: American and European Approaches to Domestic Counterterrorism (AEI Press, 2010)  The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition (Encounter Books, May 2009)  Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007), coauthored with AEI scholar Thomas Donnelly  Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence (Brassey’s, 2002), coauthored with Abram Shulsky  U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads: Agendas for Reform (Brassey’s, 1995)  References  External links   Gary Schmitt's official profile on the American Enterprise Institute website. Gary Schmitt's profile of The New Citizenship Project. Category:American Enterprise Institute Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty Category:Living people Category:United States Department of Defense officials Category:University of Chicago alumni Category:University of Dallas alumni Category:1952 births
Early life and education
 Schmitt graduated from the University of Dallas in 1974 with a B.A. and the University of Chicago in 1980 with a Ph.D.
 Career
 In the early 1980s, Schmitt worked as a member of the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and, from 1982 to 1984, served as the committee's minority staff director. From 1984 to 1988 he held the post of executive director of President Reagan's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Since then, he has held visiting fellowships at the National Interest, a foreign policy journal, and the centrist Brookings Institution, served as Coordinator for the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence's Working Group on Intelligence Reform, and worked as a consultant to the Department of Defense. In addition, he has been an adjunct professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Schmitt helped found and direct the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a key neoconservative letterhead group formed in 1997 that played a leading role advocating war in Iraq. In April 2012, Schmitt became co-director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute where he previously served as director of the Program on Advanced Strategic Studies. Books
 Safety, Liberty and Islamist Terrorism: American and Hispanic Approaches to Domestic Counterterrorism (AEI Press, 2010)
 The Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition (Encounter Books, May 2009)
 Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources (AEI Press, 2007), coauthored with AEI scholar Thomas Donnelly
 Silent Warfare: Understanding the World of Intelligence (Brassey’s, 2002), coauthored with Abram Shulsky
 U.S. Intelligence at the Crossroads: Agendas for Reform (Brassey’s, 1995)
 References
 External links
 Gary Schmitt's official profile on the American Enterprise Institute website. Gary Schmitt's profile of The New Citizenship Project. Category:American Enterprise Institute
 Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty
 Category:Living people
 Category:United States Department of Defense officials
 Category:University of Chicago alumni
 Category:University of Dallas alumni
 Category:1952 births