Robert William "Blowtorch Bob" Komer (February 23, 1922 – April 9, 2000) was an American national security adviser known for managing Civil Operations...

American water polo player Robert Komer (1922–2000), American diplomat Homer (name) This page lists people with the surname Komer. If an internal link intending...

illusion of progress". CORDS was, in the estimation of its first leader, Robert W. Komer, "too little, too late.": 16  With the withdrawal of U.S. military...

Vietnam Robert Komer 3rd Deputy National Security Advisor & U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eugene M. Locke U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan & South Vietnam Robert McNamara...

for Advanced Study from 1966 to 1976, taking over the position from J. Robert Oppenheimer. Kaysen joined the MIT faculty in 1976 and in 1977 named as...

plotting, but I doubt either they or UK should claim much credit for it. —Robert Komer to President John F. Kennedy, February 8, 1963. It has long been suspected...

President 1 Walt Rostow 1961 John F. Kennedy 2 Carl Kaysen 1961–1963 3 Robert Komer 1965 Lyndon B. Johnson 4 Francis M. Bator 1965–1967 5 Richard V. Allen...

November, 1962, 4, India, CPR 12-61-12-62 folder 3 of 4, Papers of President Kennedy, National Security File, Robert Komer, Box 420, John F. Kennedy Library....

April 2, 1981 – February 19, 1988 President Ronald Reagan Preceded by Robert Komer Succeeded by Paul Wolfowitz Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament...

September 1950 Major – 19 April 1955 Lieutenant Colonel – 26 May 1961 Robert Komer Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie Tran Ngoc Chau Kross, Peter (2007-02-20)...

President Lyndon Johnson instead sent Colby back to Vietnam as deputy to Robert Komer, who had been charged with streamlining the civilian side of the American...

administration's claims of success. From Saigon, pacification chief Robert Komer asserted that the CORDS pacification program in the countryside was succeeding...

Government to Nkrumah's." A U.S. National Security Council memo from Robert Komer to McGeorge Bundy appraised the situation: McGB— FYI, we may have a pro-Western...

August 27, 1965) Parker T. Hart (October 11, 1965 – October 3, 1968) Robert Komer (December 3, 1968 – May 7, 1969) William J. Handley (July 1, 1969 – April...

lost 328 killed, while U.S. losses were 23 killed. In Newsweek magazine Robert Komer touted the early success of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development...

Arnold Kaufmann Konrad Kellen John Kluge Ted Knap John Kneller Robert Lewis Koehl Robert Komer André Kostolany Ed Koterba Fritz G. A. Kraemer Melvin Kranzberg...

Dimona, and the disagreements became a "pain in the neck" for him, as Robert Komer later wrote. The confrontation with Israel escalated when the State Department...

believed to be connected. Senior National Security Council (NSC) adviser Robert Komer worried that if the IPC ceased production in response, Qasim might "grab...

Vietnamese pacification program was established under the control of Robert Komer. 11 May – 1 July Operation Malheur I and Operation Malheur II were a...

February 27 – President Johnson attends a briefing by David Lilienthal and Robert Komer after they returned from Vietnam in Johnson's White House office. February...

deputy to Robert Komer, the civilian head of the American efforts against the Communists, called CORDS. Shortly after arriving, Colby succeeded Komer as head...

multiple names: authors list (link) Coffey. p. 31 Jones, Robert Leith (2013). Blowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy. Annapolis,...

National Security Council, which was conceived by McGeorge Bundy and Robert Komer. The idea behind what became known as "Operation Hard-surface" was to...

Ba'athist officials as "assets". Senior National Security Council official Robert Komer wrote to President John F. Kennedy on February 8, 1963, that the Iraqi...

Resor 14 August 1978 1 April 1979 230 days Harold Brown Jimmy Carter - 2 Robert Komer 24 October 1979 20 January 1981 1 year, 88 days Harold Brown Jimmy Carter...

the initiative and aggressiveness of his subordinates." CORDS chief Robert Komer agreed and in 1968 described Thanh as unaggressive, unimaginative, and...

Aussaresses, after they had sent a copy of Trinquier's book to CIA agent Robert Komer. U.S. Army Colonel Carl Bernard later recalled that "starting with that...

Dimona, and the disagreements became a "pain in the neck" for him, as Robert Komer later wrote. The confrontation with Israel escalated when the State Department...

personally felt "thoroughly disgusted"... thinking Robert Komer had "put a fast one over on him". Komer was then in charge of the CORDS pacification program...

of trading one occupying power for another. However, in April 1961, Robert Komer and McGeorge Bundy began to prepare plans for the United Nations to give...