Francis J. "Bing" West
Francis J. West is President of the GAMA Corporation. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the Reagan Administration. Other posts have included Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Vice President of the Hudson Institute, senior analyst at The RAND Corporation, Professor of Economics and Decisionmaking and Dean of Research at the Naval War College. He has designed and moderated over 200 simulations and exercises, and developed the Combat Decision Range course.
A graduate of Georgetown (BA) and Princeton (MA) Universities, he also studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Princeton. He has taught as Visiting Professor of International Politics at Tufts University and as Adjunct Professor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Medal and Tunisia’s Medaille de Liberté.
A Marine captain in Vietnam, he served in a number of infantry combat units. He was a CNN commentator during Desert Storm and has served on various boards, including the Secretary of State Commission on Foreign Aid, the Broslio Center for International Security and The Center for Naval Analyses. He is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy, as well as four books:
A graduate of Georgetown (BA) and Princeton (MA) Universities, he also studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Princeton. He has taught as Visiting Professor of International Politics at Tufts University and as Adjunct Professor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, the Department of the Navy Superior Public Service Medal and Tunisia’s Medaille de Liberté.
A Marine captain in Vietnam, he served in a number of infantry combat units. He was a CNN commentator during Desert Storm and has served on various boards, including the Secretary of State Commission on Foreign Aid, the Broslio Center for International Security and The Center for Naval Analyses. He is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy, as well as four books:
