Background
Dees, Robert E. was born on February 2, 1950 in Amarillo, Texas, United States.
Dees, Robert E. was born on February 2, 1950 in Amarillo, Texas, United States.
Bachelor of Science, United States Military Academy, 1972. Master of Science in Operations Research and Systems Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School. Graduate, Army Command General Staff College.
Graduate, Industrial College of Armed Forces.
A specialist on national security issues he is currently the chairman of the Ben Carson campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. He was the vice director for operational plans and interoperability for the Department of Defense. He was also Assistant Division Commander of the 101st Airborne Division.
Commander, 2nd Infantry Division, United States. Forces of Korea.
Deputy Commander of V Corps in Europe. And Commander, United States.-Israeli Joint Task Force for Missile Defense.
After he officially retired from the United States. military on January 1, 2003, he worked for the next two years as the Executive Director of Defense Strategies for Microsoft Corporation. In 2005, he became the executive director of Military Ministry, focusing on soldiers coming home from the war with post-traumatic stress.
After writing the Resilience Trilogy, he was appointed and currently serves as Associate Vice President of Military Outreach and Director, Institute for Military Resilience, at Liberty University.
Dees is also the Defense and National Security Advisor for Republican Presidential candidate Doctor Ben Carson. On December 31, 2015, he was appointed campaign chairman of the Ben Carson presidential campaign, 2016. Dees graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1972, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry and awarded a Bachelor of Science degree.
He also holds a Masters degree in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School.
His military education includes the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He was also a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Virginia.
He commanded airborne, air assault, and mechanized infantry forces from platoon through division level Dees in 2015 was the "main national security adviser" to presidential candidate Ben Carson.
Dees has argued a theme that has been adopted by Carson linking national security to spiritual values.
Dees argues in Resilient Nations (2014) that the greatest threat to America is not terrorism or China or Russia but rather the decline of its "spiritual infrastructure.” Dees writes:
At the height of Roman decadence, good became evil and evil became good. One can rightly argue that the United States is frightfully close to a similar fate. Prayerfully, it is not too late.
