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A vice president with the global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Dov Zakheim has spent more than two decades working in the defense industry, in both governmental and private capacities. A regular supporter of hawkish defense policy, Zakheim has been associated with a string of neoconservative-led groups, including the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and the Center for Security Policy, where he serves on the advisory council.
Zakheim served as undersecretary for defense (comptroller) from 2001 to 2004, overseeing the Pentagon's spending program in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the onset of the "war on terror." As comptroller, Zakheim oversaw three Defense budgets, each totaling more than $300 billion, and implemented six war-time supplementary budget requests (see Defense Department News Release).
With his appointment to the Pentagon in 2001, Zakheim joined a group of policy advisers who had been instrumental in shaping President George W. Bush's defense and foreign policy since before Bush became president; many continue to play influential roles in the administration. Zakheim was a part of the foreign policy team. Labeled the "Vulcans," these advisers included current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, former National Security Council Deputy for Iraq Robert Blackwill, Bush's current National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Richard Perle, World Bank President and former U.S. trade rep Robert Zoellick, and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (for an account of the Vulcans, see James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans).
Zakheim was the Defense Department's chief financial officer during the 2003 efforts to streamline the department's spending procedures and implement spending priorities that reflected Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's vision of a 21st-century military. Critics say some of the reforms removed congressional oversight and accountability from the defense budget. During Zakheim's tenure, the Defense Department's Inspector General found that the Pentagon could not properly account for more than $1 trillion of spent funds (San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2003).
Among his roles at the Pentagon, as undersecretary for defense (comptroller) Zakheim served as coordinator of the Defense Department's civilian programs in Afghanistan and was an international fund-raiser for Iraq reconstruction monies, organizing the October 2003 Madrid donors conference and the June 2003 UN potential donors conference (see Booz Allen Hamilton profile).
Zakheim's career in the defense industry began when he joined the Pentagon in 1981, serving in various posts including special assistant to the assistant secretary for international security and assistant undersecretary for policy and resources, before moving up into the post of deputy undersecretary of defense for planning and resources in the Reagan administration, working in systems acquisition and strategic planning.
When Zakheim left the Defense Department in 1987, it was for an executive vice president post in the private sector, with the Virginia-based government consultant and contractor Systems Planning Corporation (SPC), which has supplied the Defense Department with military technology for more than 35 years and is a support contractor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Zakheim also served as CEO at subsidiary SPC International and as a consultant for the defense contractors McDonnell Douglas (now a part of Boeing) and Northrop Grumman (see "Axis of Influence," 2002).
While working in the private sector Zakheim did not lose touch with the Washington policy machine, contributing his ideas to open letters, articles, and policy recommendations that helped establish him as a leading conservative thinker on defense and national security policy. While still at Systems Planning Corporation, in April 1998, Zakheim participated in an SPC "roundtable" discussion for the Rumsfeld Missile Commission (see Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat, April 1998). According to a 2002 article by Vernon Loeb in the Washington Post, it was this interaction with Rumsfeld that solidified Zakheim's role in the Pentagon as someone who shared the defense secretary's vision of streamlining and modernizing the U.S. military ("Not Just Writing Checks for the Military," Washington Post, January 2, 2002). After Bush took office in 2001, Zakheim was tapped by Rumsfeld for his experience with defense and budgeting. As Rumsfeld told a Washington Post reporter in May 2001: "I put together a few small groups, to look at some things that I thought were priority issues. Some the president asked me to. And with the thought that we could get some bright people looking at them and then we'd plug them into the Quadrennial Defense Review which we're going to do, and that starts now. ... Financial management, Zakheim got on board Friday and he has taken the thought that came from the financial management business that Senator [Robert] Byrd raised with me, and has thoughts, and they will again be doing some internal changes and then making some proposals for legislation at some point" (DefenseLink transcript, May 21, 2001).
In 1996, Zakheim's book Flight of the Lavi: Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis was published, detailing his role in ending the IAI Lavi program, an initiative in the 1980s in which Israel researched and developed its own fighter jets (called the IAI Lavi). Zakheim reinforced the U.S. position that Israel should not produce an aircraft that would compete with the U.S. F-16, arguing that it was more efficient for Israel to buy jets from the United States. An ordained rabbi and an orthodox Jew, Zakheim was publicly criticized and harassed for his role in opposing the system and purportedly going against the interests of Israel. Today the Israeli Air force has the largest fleet of F-16s outside of the United States (see Journal of Palestine Studies, 1998).
He was also involved with groups like the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, which formed in 1990 to support the first President Bush during the first Gulf War. In 1998, the group sent an open letter to President Bill Clinton calling for a "comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his regime." Fellow signatories included Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Paula Dobriansky, Frank Gaffney, Bill Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Joshua Muravchik, Jeffrey Gedmin, Fred Ikle, Robert Kagan, David Wurmser, and Peter Rodman (see "Open Letter").
Zakheim later joined several of these same people in supporting PNAC, a neoconservative organization that played an important role in driving public and official support for the invasion of Iraq before and after the 9/11 attacks. In 1998, Zakheim signed a PNAC open letter to Clinton about the crisis in Kosovo. The letter called for U.S. support for regime change in Belgrade. Two years later, Zakheim contributed to a PNAC paper titled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses." The paper claims: "If the United States is to maintain its preeminence—and the military revolution now underway is already an American-led revolution—the Pentagon must begin in earnest to transform U.S. military forces."
The PNAC paper opines that in the absence of some "catastrophic" event akin to Pearl Harbor, such reforms would happen at a glacial pace. A year later, 9/11 seemed to provide such a spark to the kind of rapid transformation envisioned. "The system is a slow system to react until something happens, and something has happened. And the system is reacting," the Washington Post quoted Zakheim as saying in 2002. "This is going to push our [agenda] ahead, obviously geared to the war effort, precisely because it was this kind of war that many of us feared and anticipated."
Years later, Zakheim was still an advocate for funding and policy to promote the "military transformation" of U.S. armed services. In a 2005 opinion piece, Zakheim wrote that Rumsfeld spent billions on such transformation programs, and he cites the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of the need for a restructured military that is more responsive, flexible, and interconnected. As a Pentagon comptroller, Zakheim contributed greatly to funding that transformation ("Money Drives Rumsfeld's Changes," Financial Times, March 28, 2005).
But the main premise of "Rebuilding America's Defenses"—advocating an ever-expanding U.S. influence in the world—seems slightly out of step with Zakheim's own worldview. In a New York Times article published just after the 2000 election, James Traub wrote:
"Dov Zakheim, for example, has written that the scale of atrocities in places like the Balkans is often exaggerated, and that in any case violating another nation's sovereignty threatens 'to unravel the entire fabric of international relations.' Zakheim concludes that we should intervene 'only when our own interests are clearly at stake, or when genocide is so manifest that refusal to act would destroy our moral leadership of the free world.'"
In 2004 Zakheim stepped down from his post at the Pentagon with little explanation. However, his resignation did follow a highly critical audit by the General Accountability Office. Although he is no longer in public office, Zakheim has not disappeared from the public sphere, continuing to comment an U.S. policy.
Like other former administration officials, Zakheim has recently criticized the U.S. failure to establish democracy in Iraq. In 2006, he coauthored a piece in the National Interest with Daniel Pipes, Tommy Franks, and four others, stating: "Iraq's seemingly never-ending violence, whether it is termed a civil war, or, more euphemistically, 'sectarian strife,' has created a sense of instability, insecurity, and raw fear, for all but those Kurds living in Kurdistan. Democracy in this environment is nothing more than a sorry catch-phrase." (Both Pipes and Zakheim are on the National Interest's Advisory Council, along with Ikle, Conrad Black, Ruth Wedgwood, and others.)
Following the January 2006 election of Hamas in an open contest in the Palestinian territories, Zakheim said in an interview, "We have a situation not unlike Germany in 1932 when we had an upstart [Nazi] party ruled by thugs that preached hatred and racism and also claimed they would clean up a corrupt Weimar Republic. The parallels are frightening," (Timothy M. Phelps, "Some Warn Now of Rising Islamist Tide in the Region," Newsday, January 27, 2006).
In January 2007, Zakheim stated clearly his belief that Iraq had fallen into a messy civil war and advocated that the United States pull back to Iraq's borders ("Why America Should Operate from Iraq's Borders," Financial Times, January 4, 2007). "No doubt some will see this as the United States giving up on democracy and being content to stand by as Iraqis kill each other. Yet clearly democracy in Iraq must await the end of the civil war. ... The strategic shift would bring relief to our overstretched and over-deployed military. It would reduce combat losses. Above all, it would give the military a mission that they can achieve. This way we can finally bring to an end a bitter domestic debate over Iraq policy that has so undermined public faith in the judgment and wisdom of their leaders on both sides of the political aisle." In contrast to this advice, the president surged troop levels inside Iraq.
Zakheim's publications include "Congress and National Security in the Post-Cold War Era," (Nixon Center, 1998), and "Toward a Fortress Europe?" (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000).
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Timothy Phelps, " Some Warn Now of Rising Islamist Tide in the Region ," Newsday, January 27, 2006.
Dov Zakheim page, Booz Allen Hamilton, http://www.boozallen.com/capabilities/se...le/zakheim.
Defense Department News Release, "Dov S. Zakheim to Resign," March 24, 2004, http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/rele...aseid=7166.
Tom Abate, "Military Waste under Fire; $1 Trillion Missing—Bush Plan Targets Pentagon Accounting," San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2003, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...251738.DTL.
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, Appendix III, Unclassified Working Papers, "North Africa/Israel: Seth Carus and Dov Zakheim," April 6, 1998, http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/ru...africa.htm.
James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, (New York: Viking, 2004).
Vernon Loeb, "Not Just Writing Checks for the Military: Comptroller Says Sound Financial Management Must Underlie War on Terror and Effort to Transform the Pentagon," Washington Post, January 2, 2002.
"Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with the Washington Post, May 17, 2001," DefenseLink transcript, May 21, 2001, http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/t...iptid=1119.
Leon T. Hadar, "Plight of an American-Jewish Policy Wonk," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1998. pp. 111-112.
"Open Letter to the President," Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, February 19, 1998, http://www.iraqwatch.org/perspectives/ru...letter.htm.
Michelle Ciarrocca and William D. Hartung, "Axis Of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration's Missile Defense Revival," World Policy Institute Special Report, July 2002
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms...maxis.html.
Dov Zakheim, "Why American Should Operate from Iraq's Borders," Financial Times, January 4, 2007, http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText...ck_check=1.
Dov Zakheim, "Money Drives Rumsfeld's Changes," Financial Times, March 28, 2005, http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText...05642&ct=0.
Tommy Franks, Stephen Biddle, Peter Charles Choharis, John M. Owen IV, Daniel Pipes, Gary Rosen, and Dov Zakheim, "Is This Victory?" National Interest, November/December 2006.
James Traub, "The Bush Years; W.'s World," New York Times Magazine, January 14, 2001.
Center for Security Policy, Advisory Council, http://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Home....egoryID=50.
Defense Business Board, Summary of Meeting, April 26, 2007, http://www.defenselink.mil/dbb/pdf/04_26_07_minutes.pdf.
Aspen Ideas Festival, Speakers and Moderators, http://www.aifestival.org/index2.php?men...action=all.
National Interest, Advisory Council, http://www.nationalinterest.org/General.aspx?id=76.
Search for Common Ground, Board of Directors, http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/sfcg_board.html.
American Jewish Committee, Departments, http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b....tments.htm.
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Affiliated Advisers and Experts (Non-Resident), http://www.csis.org/about/NonResid_SrAdvisers/.
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Zakheim_Dov
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A vice president with the global consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Dov Zakheim has spent more than two decades working in the defense industry, in both governmental and private capacities. A regular supporter of hawkish defense policy, Zakheim has been associated with a string of neoconservative-led groups, including the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and the Center for Security Policy, where he serves on the advisory council.
Zakheim served as undersecretary for defense (comptroller) from 2001 to 2004, overseeing the Pentagon's spending program in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the onset of the "war on terror." As comptroller, Zakheim oversaw three Defense budgets, each totaling more than $300 billion, and implemented six war-time supplementary budget requests (see Defense Department News Release).
With his appointment to the Pentagon in 2001, Zakheim joined a group of policy advisers who had been instrumental in shaping President George W. Bush's defense and foreign policy since before Bush became president; many continue to play influential roles in the administration. Zakheim was a part of the foreign policy team. Labeled the "Vulcans," these advisers included current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, former National Security Council Deputy for Iraq Robert Blackwill, Bush's current National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Richard Perle, World Bank President and former U.S. trade rep Robert Zoellick, and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (for an account of the Vulcans, see James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans).
Zakheim was the Defense Department's chief financial officer during the 2003 efforts to streamline the department's spending procedures and implement spending priorities that reflected Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's vision of a 21st-century military. Critics say some of the reforms removed congressional oversight and accountability from the defense budget. During Zakheim's tenure, the Defense Department's Inspector General found that the Pentagon could not properly account for more than $1 trillion of spent funds (San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2003).
Among his roles at the Pentagon, as undersecretary for defense (comptroller) Zakheim served as coordinator of the Defense Department's civilian programs in Afghanistan and was an international fund-raiser for Iraq reconstruction monies, organizing the October 2003 Madrid donors conference and the June 2003 UN potential donors conference (see Booz Allen Hamilton profile).
Zakheim's career in the defense industry began when he joined the Pentagon in 1981, serving in various posts including special assistant to the assistant secretary for international security and assistant undersecretary for policy and resources, before moving up into the post of deputy undersecretary of defense for planning and resources in the Reagan administration, working in systems acquisition and strategic planning.
When Zakheim left the Defense Department in 1987, it was for an executive vice president post in the private sector, with the Virginia-based government consultant and contractor Systems Planning Corporation (SPC), which has supplied the Defense Department with military technology for more than 35 years and is a support contractor for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Zakheim also served as CEO at subsidiary SPC International and as a consultant for the defense contractors McDonnell Douglas (now a part of Boeing) and Northrop Grumman (see "Axis of Influence," 2002).
While working in the private sector Zakheim did not lose touch with the Washington policy machine, contributing his ideas to open letters, articles, and policy recommendations that helped establish him as a leading conservative thinker on defense and national security policy. While still at Systems Planning Corporation, in April 1998, Zakheim participated in an SPC "roundtable" discussion for the Rumsfeld Missile Commission (see Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat, April 1998). According to a 2002 article by Vernon Loeb in the Washington Post, it was this interaction with Rumsfeld that solidified Zakheim's role in the Pentagon as someone who shared the defense secretary's vision of streamlining and modernizing the U.S. military ("Not Just Writing Checks for the Military," Washington Post, January 2, 2002). After Bush took office in 2001, Zakheim was tapped by Rumsfeld for his experience with defense and budgeting. As Rumsfeld told a Washington Post reporter in May 2001: "I put together a few small groups, to look at some things that I thought were priority issues. Some the president asked me to. And with the thought that we could get some bright people looking at them and then we'd plug them into the Quadrennial Defense Review which we're going to do, and that starts now. ... Financial management, Zakheim got on board Friday and he has taken the thought that came from the financial management business that Senator [Robert] Byrd raised with me, and has thoughts, and they will again be doing some internal changes and then making some proposals for legislation at some point" (DefenseLink transcript, May 21, 2001).
In 1996, Zakheim's book Flight of the Lavi: Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis was published, detailing his role in ending the IAI Lavi program, an initiative in the 1980s in which Israel researched and developed its own fighter jets (called the IAI Lavi). Zakheim reinforced the U.S. position that Israel should not produce an aircraft that would compete with the U.S. F-16, arguing that it was more efficient for Israel to buy jets from the United States. An ordained rabbi and an orthodox Jew, Zakheim was publicly criticized and harassed for his role in opposing the system and purportedly going against the interests of Israel. Today the Israeli Air force has the largest fleet of F-16s outside of the United States (see Journal of Palestine Studies, 1998).
He was also involved with groups like the Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, which formed in 1990 to support the first President Bush during the first Gulf War. In 1998, the group sent an open letter to President Bill Clinton calling for a "comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam and his regime." Fellow signatories included Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Paula Dobriansky, Frank Gaffney, Bill Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Joshua Muravchik, Jeffrey Gedmin, Fred Ikle, Robert Kagan, David Wurmser, and Peter Rodman (see "Open Letter").
Zakheim later joined several of these same people in supporting PNAC, a neoconservative organization that played an important role in driving public and official support for the invasion of Iraq before and after the 9/11 attacks. In 1998, Zakheim signed a PNAC open letter to Clinton about the crisis in Kosovo. The letter called for U.S. support for regime change in Belgrade. Two years later, Zakheim contributed to a PNAC paper titled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses." The paper claims: "If the United States is to maintain its preeminence—and the military revolution now underway is already an American-led revolution—the Pentagon must begin in earnest to transform U.S. military forces."
The PNAC paper opines that in the absence of some "catastrophic" event akin to Pearl Harbor, such reforms would happen at a glacial pace. A year later, 9/11 seemed to provide such a spark to the kind of rapid transformation envisioned. "The system is a slow system to react until something happens, and something has happened. And the system is reacting," the Washington Post quoted Zakheim as saying in 2002. "This is going to push our [agenda] ahead, obviously geared to the war effort, precisely because it was this kind of war that many of us feared and anticipated."
Years later, Zakheim was still an advocate for funding and policy to promote the "military transformation" of U.S. armed services. In a 2005 opinion piece, Zakheim wrote that Rumsfeld spent billions on such transformation programs, and he cites the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as examples of the need for a restructured military that is more responsive, flexible, and interconnected. As a Pentagon comptroller, Zakheim contributed greatly to funding that transformation ("Money Drives Rumsfeld's Changes," Financial Times, March 28, 2005).
But the main premise of "Rebuilding America's Defenses"—advocating an ever-expanding U.S. influence in the world—seems slightly out of step with Zakheim's own worldview. In a New York Times article published just after the 2000 election, James Traub wrote:
"Dov Zakheim, for example, has written that the scale of atrocities in places like the Balkans is often exaggerated, and that in any case violating another nation's sovereignty threatens 'to unravel the entire fabric of international relations.' Zakheim concludes that we should intervene 'only when our own interests are clearly at stake, or when genocide is so manifest that refusal to act would destroy our moral leadership of the free world.'"
In 2004 Zakheim stepped down from his post at the Pentagon with little explanation. However, his resignation did follow a highly critical audit by the General Accountability Office. Although he is no longer in public office, Zakheim has not disappeared from the public sphere, continuing to comment an U.S. policy.
Like other former administration officials, Zakheim has recently criticized the U.S. failure to establish democracy in Iraq. In 2006, he coauthored a piece in the National Interest with Daniel Pipes, Tommy Franks, and four others, stating: "Iraq's seemingly never-ending violence, whether it is termed a civil war, or, more euphemistically, 'sectarian strife,' has created a sense of instability, insecurity, and raw fear, for all but those Kurds living in Kurdistan. Democracy in this environment is nothing more than a sorry catch-phrase." (Both Pipes and Zakheim are on the National Interest's Advisory Council, along with Ikle, Conrad Black, Ruth Wedgwood, and others.)
Following the January 2006 election of Hamas in an open contest in the Palestinian territories, Zakheim said in an interview, "We have a situation not unlike Germany in 1932 when we had an upstart [Nazi] party ruled by thugs that preached hatred and racism and also claimed they would clean up a corrupt Weimar Republic. The parallels are frightening," (Timothy M. Phelps, "Some Warn Now of Rising Islamist Tide in the Region," Newsday, January 27, 2006).
In January 2007, Zakheim stated clearly his belief that Iraq had fallen into a messy civil war and advocated that the United States pull back to Iraq's borders ("Why America Should Operate from Iraq's Borders," Financial Times, January 4, 2007). "No doubt some will see this as the United States giving up on democracy and being content to stand by as Iraqis kill each other. Yet clearly democracy in Iraq must await the end of the civil war. ... The strategic shift would bring relief to our overstretched and over-deployed military. It would reduce combat losses. Above all, it would give the military a mission that they can achieve. This way we can finally bring to an end a bitter domestic debate over Iraq policy that has so undermined public faith in the judgment and wisdom of their leaders on both sides of the political aisle." In contrast to this advice, the president surged troop levels inside Iraq.
Zakheim's publications include "Congress and National Security in the Post-Cold War Era," (Nixon Center, 1998), and "Toward a Fortress Europe?" (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000).
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- Affiliations
- Center for Security Policy: Advisory Council Member
- Defense Business Board: Member
- Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel: Member
- Council on Foreign Relations: Member
- National Interest: Advisory Council Member
- Aspen Ideas Festival: 2006 Speaker
- Royal Institute of International Affairs: Member
- International Institute for Strategic Studies: Member
- Heritage Foundation: Former Adjunct Scholar
- Project for the New American Century: Participant, Rebuilding America's Defenses Report (2000); Letter Signatory
- Search for Common Ground: Board of Directors
- American Jewish Committee: Chair, Office of Government and International Affairs
- Center for Strategic and International Studies: Senior Adviser
Government Service
- U.S. Department of Defense: Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer (2001-2004); Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Planning and Resources in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Policy) (1985-1987); Various Posts (1981-1985)
- Transition 2001 Panel: Member
- Defense Science Board: Member of Task Force on "The Impact of DoD Acquisition Policies on the Health of the Defense Industry" (2000)
- Task Force on Defense Reform: Member (1997)
- U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad: Member of the Board
- Congressional Budget Office: Former Staff Member of National Security and International Affairs Division
Private Sector
- Booz Allen Hamilton: Vice President
- System Planning Corp: Former Corporate Vice President
- SPC International: Former Chief Executive Officer
- Northrop Grumman: Member of Advisory Board
- McDonnell Douglas: Consultant
Education
- Columbia University: BA
- London School of Economics: Degree Not Specified
- University of Oxford, St. Antony's College: D.Phil., Economics, and Politics
The Right Web Mission
Right Web tracks militarists’ efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy.
Sources
Timothy Phelps, " Some Warn Now of Rising Islamist Tide in the Region ," Newsday, January 27, 2006.
Dov Zakheim page, Booz Allen Hamilton, http://www.boozallen.com/capabilities/se...le/zakheim.
Defense Department News Release, "Dov S. Zakheim to Resign," March 24, 2004, http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/rele...aseid=7166.
Tom Abate, "Military Waste under Fire; $1 Trillion Missing—Bush Plan Targets Pentagon Accounting," San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2003, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...251738.DTL.
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, Appendix III, Unclassified Working Papers, "North Africa/Israel: Seth Carus and Dov Zakheim," April 6, 1998, http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/ru...africa.htm.
James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, (New York: Viking, 2004).
Vernon Loeb, "Not Just Writing Checks for the Military: Comptroller Says Sound Financial Management Must Underlie War on Terror and Effort to Transform the Pentagon," Washington Post, January 2, 2002.
"Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with the Washington Post, May 17, 2001," DefenseLink transcript, May 21, 2001, http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/t...iptid=1119.
Leon T. Hadar, "Plight of an American-Jewish Policy Wonk," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1998. pp. 111-112.
"Open Letter to the President," Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf, February 19, 1998, http://www.iraqwatch.org/perspectives/ru...letter.htm.
Michelle Ciarrocca and William D. Hartung, "Axis Of Influence: Behind the Bush Administration's Missile Defense Revival," World Policy Institute Special Report, July 2002
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms...maxis.html.
Dov Zakheim, "Why American Should Operate from Iraq's Borders," Financial Times, January 4, 2007, http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText...ck_check=1.
Dov Zakheim, "Money Drives Rumsfeld's Changes," Financial Times, March 28, 2005, http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText...05642&ct=0.
Tommy Franks, Stephen Biddle, Peter Charles Choharis, John M. Owen IV, Daniel Pipes, Gary Rosen, and Dov Zakheim, "Is This Victory?" National Interest, November/December 2006.
James Traub, "The Bush Years; W.'s World," New York Times Magazine, January 14, 2001.
Center for Security Policy, Advisory Council, http://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Home....egoryID=50.
Defense Business Board, Summary of Meeting, April 26, 2007, http://www.defenselink.mil/dbb/pdf/04_26_07_minutes.pdf.
Aspen Ideas Festival, Speakers and Moderators, http://www.aifestival.org/index2.php?men...action=all.
National Interest, Advisory Council, http://www.nationalinterest.org/General.aspx?id=76.
Search for Common Ground, Board of Directors, http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/sfcg_board.html.
American Jewish Committee, Departments, http://www.ajc.org/site/c.ijITI2PHKoG/b....tments.htm.
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Affiliated Advisers and Experts (Non-Resident), http://www.csis.org/about/NonResid_SrAdvisers/.
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Zakheim_Dov
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