Career
He has published on topics of United States foreign policy and "war of ideas". During 1968 to 1970, he served as tank platoon leader (1st Lieutenant) in the 1/18th Armored Cavalry at Fort Lewis, Washington. He worked in the private sector 1977 to 1981, and for The Heritage Foundation (1981, 1989) the United States. Information Agency (1981–1983) and as Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan during the latter"s first term (1983–1985).
He was Senior Advisor for Public Diplomacy at the United States Embassy in Berne, Switzerland (1985–1988).
He produced and hosted a weekly talk-show on foreign policy, On the Lincolnshire, for Voice of America & Worldnet television (1990–2001) and was director of Voice of America (2001–2002). He acted as Senior Advisor for Information Strategy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense during 2002 to 2006 and as Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Information Ministry during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.
In 2007 he was Assistant Professor of Strategic Communications, School for National Security Executive Education, National Defense University. In this the author sees an act of "intellectual suicide", the nucleus of the end of the Islamic Golden Age and the decline of Islamic civilization into a "dysfunctional culture based on a deformed theology" locked in determinism, occasionalism and ultimately fatalism.
