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词条 Larry Wortzel
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  1. Career

  2. Personal

  3. Selected publications

  4. References

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Dr. Larry M. Wortzel (born 1947) is an eight-term Commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the United States Congress. A 32-year military veteran, he was a U.S. Army colonel, director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the United States Army War College, and vice president of The Heritage Foundation.[1] He was a military attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and witnessed the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989.[1] He is considered one of the United States' top experts on China and its military strategy.[1][2][3]

Career

Larry Wortzel received a B.A. degree from Columbus College (now Columbus State University) in Columbus, Georgia, and earned his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in political science from the University of Hawaii.[1][4]

Wortzel spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps before attending college, and then enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1970, during the Vietnam War. He was assigned to the Army Security Agency in Thailand to monitor Chinese military communications in nearby Vietnam and Laos. By 1973 he graduated from the Infantry Officer Candidate School. He also graduated from the United States Army War College.[1][4]

He shifted to military intelligence after serving as an infantry officer for four years. From 1978 to 1982, he served at the Intelligence Center Pacific of the U.S. Pacific Command. He then enrolled in advanced Chinese language studies at the National University of Singapore. Next he served as a counterintelligence special agent at the Office of the Secretary of Defense for four years, and worked in foreign intelligence with the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.[1][4]

From 1988 to 1990, Wortzel was an assistant military attaché at the American Embassy in Beijing, and witnessed and reported on the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and the subsequent army crackdown. In 1995, he returned to the embassy as the Army Attaché.[1][4]

In 1997, Wortzel became the director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, and a faculty member of the college. In 1999, he retired from the Army as a colonel after 32 years of military service.[1][4]

From 1999 to 2006, Wortzel served as Asian Studies Center director and vice president for foreign policy at The Heritage Foundation.[1] Since 2001, he has served for eight two-year terms as a Commissioner of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the United States Congress. His term expired on December 31, 2016.[1]

Personal

Wortzel is married and lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.[1]

Selected publications

  • {{cite book |title=Class in China: stratification in a classless society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MD_AAAAIAAJ |year=1987 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-25498-7}}
  • {{cite book |title=China's Military Modernization: International Implications |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fuy5AAAAIAAJ |year=1988 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-25626-4}}
  • {{cite book |title=The Chinese Armed Forces in the 21st Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=04v9jhnTifEC |year=1999 |publisher=Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College |isbn=978-1-58487-007-4}}
  • {{cite book |title=Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rfu-hR8msh4C |year=1999 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-29337-5}}
  • {{cite book |title=The Lessons of History: The Chinese People's Liberation Army at 75 |url=http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB52.pdf |year=2003 |publisher=Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College |isbn=978-1-4289-1651-7}}
  • {{cite book |title=The Dragon Extends its Reach: Chinese Military Power Goes Global |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-JaBAAAQBAJ |date=15 June 2013 |publisher=Potomac Books, Inc. |isbn=978-1-61234-406-5}}

References

1. ^10 {{cite web|title=Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D. |url=http://www.uscc.gov/Commission_Members/larry-m-wortzel-phd |publisher=U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission |accessdate=September 7, 2014}}
2. ^{{cite journal |last1=Godwin|first1=Paul H.B. |title=Book review: The Dragon Extends Its Reach: Chinese Military Power Goes Global |journal=The China Quarterly |date=27 March 2014 |volume=217 |pages=282–284 |doi=10.1017/S0305741014000149}}
3. ^{{cite web |title=Colonel Larry Wortzel discusses Military Strategy and China Today |url=http://www.iwp.edu/news_publications/detail/colonel-larry-wortzel-discusses-military-strategy-and-china-today |publisher=The Institute of World Politics |date=April 4, 2012}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=http://docs.house.gov/meetings/SY/SY21/20130516/100836/HHRG-113-SY21-Bio-WortzelL-20130516.pdf |title=Larry M. Wortzel, Ph.D. |publisher=U.S. House of Representatives |accessdate=September 15, 2014}}
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