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{{Short description|American politician (born 1968)}}
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{{for multi|the American businessman and ambassador|John D. Rood|the American sculptor|John Rood (artist)}}
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|image = John Rood official photo.jpg
|title1 = Former Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
|office = 12th [[Under Secretary of Defense for Policy]]
|president = [[Donald Trump]]
|term_start = January 9, 2018
|term_end = February 28, 2020
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|successor = [[James Anderson (Defense official)|James Anderson]] (acting)
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|term_start1 = September 28, 2007
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|term_end1 = January 20, 2009
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|predecessor1 = [[Robert Joseph]]
|successor1 = [[Ellen Tauscher]]
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|successor2 = Patricia McNerney
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|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|education = [[Arizona State University Tempe campus|Arizona State University, Tempe]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])
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'''John Charles Rood''' (born 1968) is an American national security adviser and former government official who served as the [[Under Secretary of Defense for Policy]] from January 2018 to February 2020. Before that, he was Senior Vice President of [[Lockheed Martin]] where he oversaw international business. He also served as vice president for Domestic Business Development at [[Lockheed Martin]] and he was a vice president at the [[Raytheon Company]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/1418413/john-c-rood/ |title=John C. Rood > U.S. Department of Defense > Biography View |website=[[defense.gov]] |access-date=February 18, 2018 |archive-date=February 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180219090256/https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography-View/Article/1418413/john-c-rood/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


== Early life and education ==
'''John C. Rood''' (born about 1969) was Acting [[Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security]]. He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on September 13, 2006 as [[Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation]].
Rood was born in 1968. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from [[Arizona State University]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=John C. Rood > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Biography|url=https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Biography/Article/1418413/john-c-rood/|access-date=2020-06-04|website=www.defense.gov|archive-date=March 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324115409/https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Biography/Article/1418413/john-c-rood/|url-status=live}}</ref>


== Career ==
From February 2005 to October 2006 he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterproliferation Strategy at the [[United States National Security Council|National Security Council]]. From September 2003 to February 2005, he was [[Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense]] for Forces Policy at the [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]]. Earlier in his career, he served as Director of Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation and Homeland Defense at the [[U.S. National Security Council]]. Mr. Rood came to the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] as a summer intern, then spent eleven years there as a missile development analyst. He was on [[U.S. Senator]] [[Jon Kyl]]'s staff for four years.<ref>
Rood also served as Acting [[Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security]] from September 2007 to January 2009, and as [[Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation]] from October 2006 to September 2007. He served at the [[United States National Security Council]] as special assistant to the president and senior director of Counterproliferation and Director of Proliferation Strategy for Counterproliferation in Homeland Defense. Rood served at the Defense Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy, and at the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] as an analyst following missile programs in foreign countries. In addition, he served as senior policy advisor to U.S. Senator [[Jon Kyl]] of Arizona.<ref>{{cite press release |title=President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Key Personnel to his Administration |url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/11/president-donald-j-trump-announces-key-additions-his-administration |access-date=December 11, 2017 |publisher=The White House |date=October 11, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012131509/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/10/11/president-donald-j-trump-announces-key-additions-his-administration |archive-date=2017-10-12}}{{PD-notice}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rogin |first1=Josh |title=Pentagon to get a new policy chief |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/06/09/pentagon-to-get-a-new-policy-chief/ |access-date=December 11, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=June 9, 2017 |archive-date=December 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171213232220/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2017/06/09/pentagon-to-get-a-new-policy-chief/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Gertz |first1=Bill |title=John Rood leads candidates for Pentagon policy chief |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/24/john-rood-leads-in-pentagon-policymaker-search/ |access-date=December 11, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Washington Times]] |date=May 24, 2017 |archive-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211100054/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/24/john-rood-leads-in-pentagon-policymaker-search/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://foreign.senate.gov/testimony/2006/LugarStatement060802.pdf
|title=Opening Statement For Nomination Of John Rood
|accessdate=2009-04-07
|author= |first=Richard G. |last=Lugar |authorlink=Richard G. Lugar |coauthors=
|date=August 2, 2006 |year= |month=
|format=PDF
|work= |publisher=[[United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations]]
|pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate=
|quote=Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meets to consider the nomination of John Rood to be Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation.
Mr. Rood has served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterproliferation Strategy since March 2005. Prior to his current position, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy and as Director for Proliferation Strategy, Counterproliferation, and Homeland Defense at the National Security Council. Mr. Rood has also worked at the Central Intelligence Agency and on the staff of our colleague Senator Jon Kyl.}}
</ref><ref name=Dunkhe2007/>


On October 16, 2017, Rood was nominated by President [[Donald Trump]] to become the [[Under Secretary of Defense for Policy]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Trump picks Lockheed executive Rood for top Pentagon policy post |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pentagon-rood/trump-picks-lockheed-executive-rood-for-top-pentagon-policy-post-idUSKBN1CH05K |access-date=December 11, 2017 |work=[[Reuters]] |date=October 11, 2017 |archive-date=December 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171212084146/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pentagon-rood/trump-picks-lockheed-executive-rood-for-top-pentagon-policy-post-idUSKBN1CH05K |url-status=live }}</ref> He was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on January 3, 2018. In January 2018, Secretary [[James N. Mattis]] released the [[National Defense Strategy (United States)|National Defense Strategy]] (NDS) which placed the order of priorities for the Department of Defense as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and then Countering Terrorism. As the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Rood was responsible for the implementation of the NDS worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/01/21/how-to-read-the-2018-national-defense-strategy/ |title=How to read the 2018 National Defense Strategy |first=Mara |last=Karlin |date=January 21, 2018 |website=[[Brookings Institution]] |access-date=April 23, 2019 |archive-date=April 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423231743/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/01/21/how-to-read-the-2018-national-defense-strategy/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/1810772/fy-2020-budget-request-linked-to-national-defense-strategy/ |title=FY 2020 Budget Request Linked to National Defense Strategy |website=U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220201946/https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/1810772/fy-2020-budget-request-linked-to-national-defense-strategy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On February 19, 2020, Rood was asked to leave the administration by President Trump and offered his resignation effective February 28, 2020.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/john-rood-pentagon-official-depart/index.html |title=Top Pentagon policy official expected to depart administration |first1=Jim |last1=Sciutto |first2=Barbara |last2=Starr |work=[[CNN]] |access-date=2020-02-19 |date=February 19, 2020 |archive-date=February 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219143039/https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/politics/john-rood-pentagon-official-depart/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Allassan |first=Fadel |url=https://www.axios.com/john-rood-resignation-pentagon-trump-ukraine-183c9824-3423-431b-8c95-4da9771a63d6.html |title=Pentagon policy chief resigns amid reported discord with Trump |work=[[Axios (website)|Axios]] |date=February 19, 2020 |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220005330/https://www.axios.com/john-rood-resignation-pentagon-trump-ukraine-183c9824-3423-431b-8c95-4da9771a63d6.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Mr. Rood received his [[bachelor's degree]] from [[Arizona State University]] (1990).<ref name=Dunkhe2007>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.asu.edu/alumni/magazine/i03vo10n2/way_at_the_top.shtml
|title=JOHN ROOD '90 B.S. - Rood's awakening
|accessdate=2009-04-07
|author= |first=Cecile |last=Dunkhe |authorlink=Cecile Dunkhe |coauthors=
|date=24-Jul-2007 |year= |month=
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|work=[[ASU Magazine]] |publisher=[[Arizona State University]]
|pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate=
|quote=John Rood was debating which summer job to take while studying economics at ASU in the late 1980's when he heard about an internship with the CIA. His decision to apply for the internship resulted in an 11-year stint with the CIA and ultimately a position in the White House and the State Department where he currently serves as Assistant Secretary for International Security and Non-Proliferation.


==See also==
It's been quite a rise for Rood, but he keeps his perspective by recalling his other summer option.
*[[Trump–Ukraine scandal]]


== References ==
"I was thinking about working on a fishing boat," recalls Rood, who tracked missile development programs in countries like North Korea, India and Pakistan while with the CIA.
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After his CIA assignment, he worked for Sen. Jon Kyl for four years. President George W. Bushed appointed Rood to become special assistant to the president and senior director for counter-proliferation strategy this past summer.
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{{Succession box| before = [[Robert Joseph]]| title = [[Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security]]|years=2007–2009| after = [[Ellen Tauscher]]}}
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{{Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs}}
Today, Rood is charged with stopping the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons in potentially hostile or terrorist nations around the world. In his words, his role is to "lead the State Department's effort to deal with the spread of weapons of mass destruction or WMD." AS one of 22 undersecretaries of state, his goals rely heavily on policy making, developing strategies and then organizing staff, funds and efforts around that policy.


{{Authority control}}
Not surprisingly, his job requires lots of travel and meetings. "I have been to four countries in the last three weeks: Israel, the U.K., France and Switzerland," he says.


{{DEFAULTSORT:Rood, John Charles}}
As serious as his job is, John Rood possesses a healthy belief in serendipity about how he arrived there.

"I didn't plan all this out, but I'd like to think that when opportunity was knocking at the door I answered it," he said.}}
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== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.state.gov/outofdate/bios/96561.htm Rood, John] [[State Department]] biography
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/10/AR2006031002003.html The NSC's Sesame Street Generation]
* [http://2002-2009-fpc.state.gov/105205.htm John Rood, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security] photo
*[http://2002-2009-fpc.state.gov/102102.htm John Rood, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security] another photo
*[http://www.msz.gov.pl/Visit,of,the,Under,Secretary,John,Rood,23962.html Visit of the Under Secretary John Rood] in [[Poland]]
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For the American businessman and ambassador, see John D. Rood. For the American sculptor, see John Rood (artist).

John Rood
12th Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
In office
January 9, 2018 – February 28, 2020
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byChristine Wormuth
Succeeded byJames Anderson (acting)
Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
In office
September 28, 2007 – January 20, 2009
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byRobert Joseph
Succeeded byEllen Tauscher
Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation
In office
October 2, 2006 – September 27, 2007
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byFrancis Record
Succeeded byPatricia McNerney
Personal details
Born
John Charles Rood

1968 (age 55–56)
Political partyRepublican
EducationArizona State University, Tempe (BS)

John Charles Rood (born 1968) is an American national security adviser and former government official who served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from January 2018 to February 2020. Before that, he was Senior Vice President of Lockheed Martin where he oversaw international business. He also served as vice president for Domestic Business Development at Lockheed Martin and he was a vice president at the Raytheon Company.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Rood was born in 1968. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Arizona State University.[2]

Career[edit]

Rood also served as Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from September 2007 to January 2009, and as Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation from October 2006 to September 2007. He served at the United States National Security Council as special assistant to the president and senior director of Counterproliferation and Director of Proliferation Strategy for Counterproliferation in Homeland Defense. Rood served at the Defense Department as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy, and at the Central Intelligence Agency as an analyst following missile programs in foreign countries. In addition, he served as senior policy advisor to U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona.[3][4][5]

On October 16, 2017, Rood was nominated by President Donald Trump to become the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.[6] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 3, 2018. In January 2018, Secretary James N. Mattis released the National Defense Strategy (NDS) which placed the order of priorities for the Department of Defense as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and then Countering Terrorism. As the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Rood was responsible for the implementation of the NDS worldwide.[7][8] On February 19, 2020, Rood was asked to leave the administration by President Trump and offered his resignation effective February 28, 2020.[9][10]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to John C. Rood.
  1. ^ "John C. Rood > U.S. Department of Defense > Biography View". defense.gov. Archived from the original on February 19, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  2. ^ "John C. Rood > U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE > Biography". www.defense.gov. Archived from the original on March 24, 2020. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
  3. ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Key Personnel to his Administration" (Press release). The White House. October 11, 2017. Archived from the original on October 12, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Rogin, Josh (June 9, 2017). "Pentagon to get a new policy chief". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  5. ^ Gertz, Bill (May 24, 2017). "John Rood leads candidates for Pentagon policy chief". The Washington Times. Archived from the original on December 11, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  6. ^ "Trump picks Lockheed executive Rood for top Pentagon policy post". Reuters. October 11, 2017. Archived from the original on December 12, 2017. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
  7. ^ Karlin, Mara (January 21, 2018). "How to read the 2018 National Defense Strategy". Brookings Institution. Archived from the original on April 23, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  8. ^ "FY 2020 Budget Request Linked to National Defense Strategy". U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  9. ^ Sciutto, Jim; Starr, Barbara (February 19, 2020). "Top Pentagon policy official expected to depart administration". CNN. Archived from the original on February 19, 2020. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  10. ^ Allassan, Fadel (February 19, 2020). "Pentagon policy chief resigns amid reported discord with Trump". Axios. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
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2007–2009 		Succeeded by
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