General Odom€™s latest book, America€™s Inadvertent Empire

General Odom€™s latest book, America€™s Inadvertent Empire, co-authored with Robert Dujarric, was

published in early 2004 by Yale University Press. His previous book, Fixing Intelligence For a More

Secure America, was published in January 2003 (Yale University Press). His book, The Collapse of the

Soviet Military (Yale University Press, 1998), won the Marshall Shulman Prize. General Odom has also

written (American University Press, 1993); America’s Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure After

the Cold WarTrial After Triumph: East Asia After the Cold War (Hudson Institute, 1992); On Internal

War: American and Soviet Approaches to Third World Clients and Insurgents (Duke University Press,

1992); and The Soviet Volunteers (Princeton University Press, 1973). He coauthored Commonwealth or

Empire? Russia, Central Asia, and the Transcaucasus with Robert Dujarric (Hudson Institute, 1995).

General Odom has published articles in Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Foreign Policy, Orbis, Problems

of Communism, The National Interest, The Washington Quarterly, Military Review, and many other

publications. A frequent radio and television commentator, he has appeared on programs such as “The

PBS News Hour,” CNN, ABC’s “Nightline”, NBC News, C-Span, and BBC’s “The World Tonight.” He also

is a periodic contributor to the op-ed pages of The NewYork Times, The Wall Street Journal, The

Washington Post, and others.