Richard J. Hoffman Director Center for Civil-Military Relations Naval Postgraduate School Contact rhoffman@nps.edu

Biography
Prior to becoming the Director of the Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) in November of 2004, Richard J. (Rich) Hoffman served as Executive Director of the Center from 1996 to 2004. As Director, he oversees the development and coordination of the Center's global education programs in Civil-Military Relations; Policy and Strategy development in a Democracy; Combating Terrorism; and Stability and Reconstruction Operations.

The Center for Civil-Military Relations is an outreach component of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and provides Defense Security Cooperation education programs throughout the globe. In fiscal year 2006, CCMR conducted 121 programs involving 4,500 international participants from 102 countries. In addition CCMR also provided mission-specific pre-deployment education to almost 14,000 U.S. personnel deploying to missions abroad. As an NPS Senior Lecturer, he also teaches graduate courses in civil-military relations, policy and strategy development, military history, and joint and combined operations in the NPS Department of National Security Affairs.

Before joining CCMR in 1996, Rich served for more than 24 years in the U.S. Army. His last assignments include duty as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations of the Sixth U.S. Army, responsible for oversight of Army Reserve Component Readiness and Military Support to Civil Authorities in the twelve western United States, and duty as a strategic plans officer in the U.S. Mission to NATO from 1989 to 1993, where he led the Office of the Secretary of Defense's effort in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty negotiations, and the development of policy and strategy for NATO's peacekeeping capabilities. During his military career, Rich served in numerous command and staff positions with armored units in both the U.S. and Germany.

Richard Hoffman holds a bachelor's degree in National Security Affairs from the U.S. Military Academy, and masters degrees in history and political science from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he served as a graduate teaching assistant and assisted in the preparation of Force and Statecraft: Diplomatic Problems of Our Time by Gordon A. Craig and Alexander L. George.