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William Eldridge Odom

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Gender Male
Death15 years ago
Date of birth June 23,1932
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Cookeville
Tennessee
United States
Date of died May 30,2008
DiedLincoln
Vermont
United States
Place of burialArlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States
Previous officeDirector of the National Security Agency (1985–1988)
Job Soldier
Education Columbia University
United States Military Academy
Columbia Military Academy
Awards Distinguished Service Medal
Legion of Merit
Previous positionDirector of the National Security Agency of the USA
Year of servic1954–1988
Movies/Shows War Games and the Man Who Stopped Them
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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The Collapse of the Soviet Military
Fixing Intelligence
America's Inadvertent Empire
The Soviet volunteers: modernization and bureaucracy in a public mass organization
America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure After the Cold War
On internal war
Trial after triumph
NATO: The Case for Enlargement
A Great Game No More: Oil Gas and Stability in the Caspian Sea Region: Contributions to a Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Seminar
Unreasonable Sufficiency? Assessing the New Soviet Strategy
Reshaping America's Forces for a New Era
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William Eldridge Odom was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union.

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