Undersecretary of State (1982-1986)

Chairman, Defense Science board (2001-2009)

Bill Schneider was part of the fabled national security team assembled by President Reagan to defeat the Soviet Union. He helped build a multilateral consensus with our NATO allies and others to cut off supplies of critical technologies to the USSR, an effort that led to the inevitable Soviet collapse. I first met him during the Reagan years when I was doing a book on Soviet high-tech espionage and admired his mastery of both policy and technology.

In 1998, Bill worked under Donald Rumsfeld as a member of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, and was instrumental in that panel’s finding that Iran, Iraq and North Korea were capable of developing long-range missiles that could threaten the United States within a decade, a prediction ridiculed at the time by left-wing scientists until both the North Koreans and the Iranians test-fired missiles that year in defiance of the rosy predictions of the intelligence community. My testimony before the Commission warned that Third World countries didn’t need to adhere to the high-tech standard of the West in order to build murderous weapons. Bill Schneider supported me in that conclusion; and we were right.

During the administration of George W. Bush, Bill helped guide the Defense Science Board in evaluating new threats to America, and was a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Today, Bill is an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute and President of International Planning Services, Inc. I am honored to have the support and endorsement of this visionary public servant whose insights have helped America prepare to meet the threats of tomorrow. If elected, I look forward to working with Bill on defense and intelligence issues.

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