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MCNAIR PAPER 63
All Possible Wars? Toward a Consensus View of the Future Security Environment, 2001–2025
SAM J. TANGREDI
Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University 15 McN 63 C1,2,3,4 11/13/00 1:33 PM Page 2
About the Author Captain Sam J. Tangredi, USN, is a senior military fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, where he is a member of the Quadrennial Defense Review 2001 Working Group. He is a surface warfare officer who has served in a fast frigate, aircraft carrier, guided-missile destroyer, and dock landing ship. His most recent command was USS Harpers Ferry (LSD–49). A Navy subspecialist in strategic planning and international negotiations and a fully-qualified joint specialty officer, he has served on the Joint Staff as special assistant and speechwriter to the Secretary of the Navy and as head, Strategy and Concepts Branch, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School, Captain Tangredi received a doctorate in international relations from the University of Southern California and was a national security fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has written over seventy articles and working papers on defense issues and appeared on The History Channel in “The Great Ships” series.