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ASP Welcomes Newest Board Member

WASHINGTON, DC – The American Security Project (ASP) this week announced that Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) will join its bipartisan Board of Directors.

Senator Hagel, a two term Senator from Nebraska, joins an accomplished group of national security leaders, including fellow Vietnam veterans Senator John Kerry (D-MA), General Anthony Zinni (USMC, Ret.) and former Bush administration official Richard Armitage, who are working together to build consensus around a new strategy to enhance American security and improve U.S.-foreign relations around the world.

The second ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Hagel is known for his tough-minded independence and experience on national security.

“Senator Hagel’s record speaks for itself,” said Senator Gary Hart, the former Colorado Senator and ASP’s President and Chairman. “His willingness to question assumptions and his courage to speak difficult truths are qualities that are needed to end the paralysis that dominates the discussion of national security issues today. He has been an eloquent advocate for the use of all the instruments of American power and we enthusiastically welcome him to the board.”

The American Security Project (ASP), conceived by Senator Kerry and lead by Kerry, Senator Gary Hart and a bipartisan group of experts in the area of National Security and Foreign Policy is described on its website.

The American Security Project is a non-profit, bipartisan public policy and research organization dedicated to fostering knowledge and understanding of a range of national security issues, promoting debate about the appropriate use of American power, and cultivating strategic responses to 21st century challenges.

Listen here as JK, Gary Hart and Dr. Bernard I Finel describe one of the ASP studies and the Project's mission, and how understanding America's security challenges is critical to resolving them.