Brent Scowcroft

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Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft (center) with President George HWBush (left on the phone) and Chief of Staff John Sununu during the U.S. invasion of Panama , 1989

Brent Scowcroft (born March 19, 1925 in Ogden , Utah , † August 6, 2020 in Falls Church , Virginia ) was an American lieutenant general, military assistant to President Richard Nixon and national security advisor to US Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush, Sr. from 1975 to 1977 and 1989 to 1993. Under President George W. Bush he was chairman of the advisory group of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2001 to 2005).

Scowcroft (left) with the German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth in Washington, DC after receiving the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2009

Life

Scowcroft graduated from West Point Military Academy and received his PhD from Columbia University in 1967 . During his military career, Scowcroft held various positions in the US Air Force , the US Department of Defense , the US Air Force Academy and the West Point Military Academy. He also held the post of Deputy Air Force Attaché at the US Embassy in Belgrade . He received numerous military awards. In 1975 Scowcroft reached the military age limit and left the army with the rank of lieutenant general .

On the morning of September 11th, Scowcroft was aboard the airborne command center . He advocated the invasion of Afghanistan as a "direct strike against terrorism".

In 2003, however, he criticized the United States' policy of invading Iraq .

Prior to joining the Bush administration, Scowcroft was vice chairman of Kissinger and Associates . He was the founder and president of the International Political Forum . In addition, Scowcroft held the presidency of The Scowcroft Group , an international management consultancy.

Together with President Bush senior, Scowcroft published the book A World Transformed , in which his memoirs of the fall and fall of the Soviet Union are described.

Scowcroft was a member of the Mormon faith .

He died on August 6, 2020 at the age of 95.

The Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security of the Atlantic Council is named after him.

Drowsiness in office

Scowcroft was notorious for persistently sleeping in presidential meetings. This led to the introduction of an unofficial price named after him for comparable sleep performance in the White House. While he is considered to be the first prize winner himself, no other distinguished people are known.

Awards

Fonts

  • with George Bush : A world transformed. Knopf, New York NY 1998, ISBN 0-679-43248-5 (In German: Eine neue Welt. American foreign policy in times of upheaval. Translated from the American by Stephan Fuchs. Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-550-07105 -1 ).

Web links

Commons : Brent Scowcroft  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zbigniew Brzezinski , Brent Scowcroft: America and the World. Conversations on the future of American Foreign Policy . Basic Books, New York NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-465-01501-6 .
  2. ↑ March 8, 2003: Foreign Policy Adviser Warns of Negative Repercussions of Bush Administration 'Unilateralism'
  3. ↑ Brent Scowcroft, prominent elder statesman, has died. Retrieved August 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ atlanticcouncil.org - accessed February 20, 2019
  5. ↑ Christina Wilkie: Fall asleep in the Oval Office? You could win a 'Scowcroft award'. In: The Hill. May 12, 2010, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  6. ^ Roosevelt Institute: Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Awards
personal data
SURNAME Scowcroft, Brent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Lieutenant General, Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon, Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Ogden , Utah
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2020
Place of death Falls Church , Virginia