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Dr. Darnell Whitt is a specialist in American foreign policy and international security, for which he has served in a variety of appointments in and out of government and academic institutions.
Most recently, he was a Professor of Defense Policy at the Defense Resources Management Institute, a teaching and research center founded and supervised by the Secretary of Defense, and located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. For more than thirty years, the Institute has offered graduate-level courses on analytical decision making and national-security affairs to nearly 25,000 senior military officers and civilian officials from the US and 140 other nations.
While serving in this position, Dr. Whitt helped to draft Congressional legislation in 1990 which expanded educational aspects of US defense security assistance worldwide by emphasizing attention to the newly-democratic states of Central and Eastern Europe, Central and South America, and sub-Saharan Africa. As part of this program, he taught short courses on political-economy and civilian control of military activities throughout these geographic areas, as well as in the Institute's regular resident courses in California.
Before joining DRMU in 1998, Dr. Whitt served for eleven years as Intelligence Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the Pentagon's four-star equivalent third-ranking civilian official who directs the Defense Department's role in the national-security decision-making process. Later during this appointment, Dr. Whitt coordinated Executive-Branch support for the National Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy, sponsored by the White House and Defense Department. For distinguished performance in these assignments, he was awarded the Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal by the Secretary of Defense in 1981 and again in 1988.
During the 1960's and 1970's, he taught and published research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and the Georgetown University of Foreign Service; and he held appointments in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of State, and the US diplomatic mission to NATO I Paris and Brussels. He was also Executive Director of the Committee of Nine, a distinguished group of international experts who reassessed European-American relations in view of major trends in political, military, and economic developments. A graduate of Harvard College and a Captain in the Naval Reserve, Dr. Whitt is author of or contributor to many articles, books, studies, and reports; and he has been a speaker or participant at events with over 120 professional organizations. Among other affiliations, he has been a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London since 1965.
