Frank Leith Jones

Frank Leith Jones is an American academic, public servant and military historian. He published his first book in 2013, Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy a biography of Robert Komer who served as "national security policy and strategy adviser" to three Presidents.

Public Service

Jones first joined the United States Army as a commissioned officer during the Vietnam era. In 1979, he switched to public service as a civilian serving as a President Management Intern with the Department of the Army. Subsequently, he held a number of high-ranking positions in the Department of Defense. In 2006, he resigned as a career member of the Senior Executive Service.

Academia

After leaving public service, Jones turned to teaching Security Studies at the U.S Army War College in Carlisle, PA. He serves as the General Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair in National Security and is the director of the College’s Theory of War and Strategy course.

Awards

Jones was awarded the “Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book Prize In Military History" for the best book written in English on U.S. military history, 2015 by the U.S. Commission on Military History.

• A "Hollow Army" Reappraised: President Carter, Defense Budgets, and the Politics of Military Readiness.
• Blowtorch : Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2013] ISBN 9781612512280. OCLC 813910349.

• "A "Hollow Army" Reappraised: President Carter, Defense Budgets, and the Politics of Military Readiness". army.mil.