Bernard E. Trainor Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret.)

General Trainor is a Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at The Council on Foreign Relations and Associate at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a highly decorated officer whose military career included a wide variety of command and staff assignments. After retirement, General Trainor joined The New York Times as its military correspondent. As a journalist, he covered military matters at home and abroad and provided on-the-scene analysis of conflicts throughout the Third World. In 1990, he joined Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as Director of the National Security Program. He also retained his journalistic affiliation as a columnist for The Times News Service and became military analyst for ABC. General Trainor retired from his directorship at Harvard in September 1996 and assumed Associate status at The Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School.