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The Honorable Robert Wilkie is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs. In this capacity, he serves as the legislative advisor to the Secretary of Defense and promotes the Department’s strategy, legislative priorities, policies, and budget to the United States Congress.
He was nominated by President Bush on June 20, 2006 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 30, 2006. The son of an Army Artillery commander, he spent his youth at Fort Bragg. He attended the Fayetteville (NC) City Schools. He graduated with honors from Wake Forest University. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University of the South (New Orleans) and was also awarded a Masters of Law in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University.
He began his professional career on Capitol Hill as Counsel to Senator Jesse Helms, where he was the Senator’s policy advisor for Armed Services, Nuclear Energy and Senate Rules and Procedure. He later served as Legislative Director for Congressman David Funderburk where he was assigned to the Committee on International Relations and the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. In 1997, he began service as the Counsel and Advisor on International Security Affairs to the Senate Majority Leader, the Honorable Trent Lott. In addition to his regular duties, he was the principal staffer and editor of the national security section of the 2000 Republican Party Presidential Platform.
From 2003-2005, Mr. Wilkie was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and a Senior Director of the National Security Council. While at the NSC, Mr. Wilkie developed strategic planning for the implementation of the Moscow Treaty, NATO Expansion, the Millennium Challenge Account; and Iraqi Reconstruction.
Mr. Wilkie is an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He has served with the Atlantic Intelligence Command, Joint Forces Intelligence Command, Naval Special Warfare Group Two and the Office of Naval Intelligence. He is a graduate of the College of Naval Command and Staff and the United States Army War College. He is also a graduate of the Joint Forces Staff College.
His articles have been published in The Naval War College Review, Parameters, and Proceedings. He contributed a chapter on European Defense to the recently published “Strategy for Empire: U .S. Regional Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era”.
Mr. Wilkie is married to the former Julia Bullard of Fayetteville, North Carolina. They have two children, Adam and Megan. |
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