Author Profile

Gordon Bare

Gordon Bare was a Foreign Affairs Officer with the U.S. Department of State and served on the delegations to the U.S.-Soviet Standing Consultative Commission on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and to the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty. He also served as Director for Southeast Asia for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, attended the National War College, and was a Brookings Fellow to the Senate. As an Army officer, he served in advisory units in Vietnam and remained in the Army Reserve reaching the rank of Colonel, and was the Army Reserve Attaché to Hong Kong in the 1990s. From 9/11 until 2016 he worked on a part-time basis for a State Department crisis task force supporting the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Counter-ISIL wars and other U.S. military deployments worldwide. He is an occasional adjunct at Central Wyoming College, Jackson, Wyoming. His most recent publications are “The American Way of War: Engage, Escalate, Abandon,” and "An Old Nuclear Strategy for a New Threat."