Near East South Asia

Near East South Asia

Center for Strategic Studies

RADM John F. Sigler, USN (ret.)

Rear Admiral Sigler retired from a thirty-four year career as a Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy on March 1, 2000. During his career he served in every U.S. theater of operations, including North and South America, Europe, Northeast and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean, and Southwest Asia. He commanded two ships and an Amphibious Ready Group. During staff assignments he taught operations analysis at the U.S. Naval Academy, was a program analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, served as a Plans and Policy Officer in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mid-East theaters and was the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

During his final tour Rear Admiral Sigler was the Plans and Policy Officer (J5) for the United States Central Command. In that capacity he was responsible to the Unified Commander-in-Chief for resource requirements identification and programming, congressional liaison, arms control and treaties, strategy formulation, joint doctrine development, political-military relations with 25 nations and planning for contingencies ranging from humanitarian assistance to major theater war.

    Education
  • Capstone Program, National Defense University
  • Post Command Strategic Studies, United States Naval War College
  • M.S., Industrial Engineering, Stanford University
  • B.S., Naval Science, United States Naval Academy
    Areas of Interest
  • Strategic Planning
  • Disaster Response
  • Environmental Security

John F. Sigler, Director

 

John Sigler

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.  Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

~ Sun Tzu

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