Colonel Daniel M. Smith graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1966. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry, Colonel Smith's initial assignment as platoon leader was with the Third Armor Division in Germany. He then served as an intelligence advisor in Vietnam before returning to the U.S. to do graduate work and teach philosophy and English at West Point.

Subsequent intelligence and public affairs assignments took him to Fort Hood, Texas; the Army Material Research and Development Command, where he was the speech writer for the Commanding General; the Defense Intelligence Agency; and Headquarters, Department of the Army. He spent six of his years with the Defense Intelligence Agency in London working in the British Ministry of Defense and as Military Attache‚ in the U.S. Embassy. Colonel Smith retired from the Army in 1992 after 26 years of service.

Colonel Smith is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Army War College. He joined the Center for Defense Information in April 1993 as Director of the Center's Arms Trade Project and now serves as Chief of Research.

E-mail: dsmith@cdi.org
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