William Eldridge Odom | Academic Influence

Why Is William Eldridge Odom Influential?

According to Wikipedia, William Eldridge Odom was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. He died of an apparent heart attack at his vacation home in Lincoln, Vermont.

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William Eldridge Odom's Published Works

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Published Works

Transforming the Military (1997) (103)
The Collapse of the Soviet Military (2017) (79)
Intelligence Analysis (2008) (73)
Fixing Intelligence: For a More Secure America (2003) (47)
A Dissenting View on the Group Approach to Soviet Politics (1976) (39)
America's Inadvertent Empire (2004) (34)
Soviet Politics and After: Old and New Concepts (1992) (28)
On Internal War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents (1991) (26)
America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War (1993) (22)
Single- and double-hot arm asymmetrical polysilicon surface micromachined electrothermal microactuators applied to realize a microengine (2002) (20)
The Cold War Origins of the U.S. Central Command (2006) (15)
Commonwealth or Empire: Russia, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus (1996) (15)
Soviet Military Doctrine (1988) (14)
Design and performance of an electrothermal MEMS microengine capable of bi-directional motion (2003) (14)
The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in a Public Mass Organization. (1974) (12)
Fixing Intelligence (2017) (11)
Hostage to Revolution: Gorbachev and Soviet Security Policy, 1985-1991. By Coit D. Blacker. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993. xvii, 239 pp. Index. $16.95, paper. (1994) (11)
Russia’s Several Seats at the Table (1998) (10)
Report of the Senior Assessment Panel for the International Assessment of the U (1998) (9)
Modernizing Intelligence: Structure and Change for the 21st Century (2002) (8)
The Military and the State (2002) (7)
Precision bi-directional motion of a linear mechanical shuttle with an electrothermal microengine (2004) (7)
German for Singers: A Textbook of Diction and Phonetics (1981) (6)
Three-dimensional structures assembled from polysilicon surface micromachined components containing continuous hinges and microrivets (2001) (6)
TESTIMONY BEFORE THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE (2004) (6)
How to create a true world order (1995) (5)
Whither the Soviet Union (1981) (4)
Senior travel buddies: sustainable ride-sharing & socialization (2007) (4)
Trial After Triumph: East Asia After the Cold War (1992) (4)
Who Controls Whom in Moscow (1975) (3)
When to Leave Iraq (2008) (3)
Iraq Through the Prism of Vietnam (2006) (2)
Putting out the Balkan Fire (1995) (2)
The Future of the Soviet Political System (1989) (2)
Polysilicon surface micromachined structural entities with continuous hinges and microrivets for assembling three-dimensional MEMS devices (2001) (2)
Russian History and the Future of Russia (2009) (1)
The Congress of Prague: Revitalizing the Atlantic Alliance (1997) (1)
Bolshevik Ideas on the Military's Role in Modernization (1976) (1)
Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today. By J. Michael Waller. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. x, 390 pp. (1995) (1)
American Hegemony: How to Use It, How to Lose It (2007) (1)
Characterization of Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Polysilicon Surface Micromachined Electrothermal Actuators (2003) (1)
Design and Performance of a Microengine Realized with Arrays of Asymmetrical Electrothermal Polysilicon Surface Micromachined Microactuators (2002) (1)
A Grand Strategy for America by Robert J. Art (2004) (1)
Surface Micromachined Polysilicon Components Containing Continuous Hinges and Microrivets Used to Realize Three-Dimensional MEMS Structures (2001) (1)
The Soviet military and foreign policy (1975) (1)
Gorbachev's Strategy and Western Security: Illusions Versus Reality (1990) (1)
The Soviet Volunteers (2015) (1)
Condemned to Repetition? The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet-Russian Military Interventionism, 1973–1996. By Andrew Bennett (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1999) 387 pp. $35.00 cloth $17.50 paper (2001) (0)
SIX. Deciding to Change Course (2017) (0)
U.S. Intelligence: Current Problems in Historical Perspective (1990) (0)
From US-Soviet to US-Russian Relations: The Implications for Korea (1997) (0)
Chapter XI. The Organizational Process (2015) (0)
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower by Sergei N. Khrushchev (2001) (0)
Chapter I. The Doctrinal Heritage (2015) (0)
Chapter VIII. The Hierarchy of Societies (2015) (0)
DEEP WEATHERING PRODUCTS AS APPALACHIAN LANDSCAPE MARKERS: DID NEOGENE UPLIFT OCCUR? (2016) (0)
Bi-Directional Motion Achieved with a Surface Micromachined Electrothermal MEMS Microengine (2003) (0)
Challenges Facing an Expanding NATO (1998) (0)
5. The Economic Performance Gap (2017) (0)
2. Essential Dogma and Useful Buzzwords (2017) (0)
Chapter XII. A Brief Historical Sketch (2015) (0)
The Pluralist Mirage (2017) (0)
Chapter XVI. Power Relations in Osoaviakhim (2015) (0)
Chapter VI. Osoaviakhim's Predecessors (2015) (0)
3. The Military Power Gap (2017) (0)
Yellow Smoke: The Future of Land Warfare for America's Militaryby Robert H. Scales, Jr. (2003) (0)
Realism about Russia (2017) (0)
Odom’s Russia: A Forum (2017) (0)
8. The Media and Mass Culture Gaps (2017) (0)
Thoughts on the future of the Soviet military (1991) (0)
Chapter XIV. Development of the Formal Hierarchy (2015) (0)
THE NEW LEGIONS: AN ATTITUDINAL PORTRAIT OF THE SOVIET SOL (1981) (0)
FIFTEEN. Illusions of Another Chance (2017) (0)
Analyzing Symmetry of Stream Valleys to Characterize Possible Neogene Uplift in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina (2013) (0)
Chapter V. Resource Constraints and the State Budget (2015) (0)
The Soviet Soldier (1977) (0)
DATING TERRACE DEPOSITS ALONG THE TENNESSEE RIVER USING COSMOGENIC 26AL AND 10BE (2017) (0)
List of Charts (2015) (0)
Chapter III. Implications of Technological Backwardness (2015) (0)
Chapter XV. Bureaucracy: Rational Structure or Political Arena? (2015) (0)
6. Looking to See: Imagery Intelligence (2017) (0)
THREE. How the Military Was Manned (2017) (0)
America’s Inadvertent Empire (2017) (0)
Chapter II. Bolshevik Perceptions of Cultural Backwardness (2015) (0)
Surface Micromachined Structures with Continuous Hinges and Microrivets for Assembling Three-Dimensional MEMS Devices (2002) (0)
Appease with Dishonor: Faulty History (1995) (0)
Chapter X. Resources–Organizational Inputs (2015) (0)
2. An Empire of a New Type (2017) (0)
Rick Fawn and Raymond Hinnesbusch, eds. The Iraq War: Causes and Consequences (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006). Pp. 357. $60 cloth, $23.50 paper. (2009) (0)
Condemned to Repetition?: The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet-Russian Military Interventionism, 1973-1996 (review) (2001) (0)
Chapter IX. Linkages with Other Organizations (2015) (0)
Tomorrow We'll Be in Switzerland: Saving the Children of La Hille. (Morgen sind wir in der Schweiz: Die Rettung der Kinder von La Hille) (2002) (0)
Do We Need State Old Age Pensions? No (1933) (0)
Overview: Is the Soviet Political System in Crisis? (1990) (0)
Chapter XIII. Goals and Program Development (2015) (0)
Index to Volume XXVIII (1976) (0)
Democratic Breakdown and the Decline of the Russian Military. By Zoltan Barany. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xi, 247 pp. Notes. Index. $22.95, hard bound. (2008) (0)
Chapter IV. The Red Army as an Instrument of Social Transformation (2015) (0)
A World of New Security Dilemmas (1999) (0)
Bolshevik politics and the Dustbin of history (1976) (0)
Insights on the parallel banking industry (1994) (0)
Exit From Iraq Should Be Through Iran (2007) (0)
Tables and Figures (2017) (0)
Chapter VII. General Terminology and Concepts (2015) (0)

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