Keith Dayton

Keith W. Dayton
Keith W. Dayton
Born	March 7, 1949 (age 75)
Allegiance	United States of America
Service / branch	United States Army
Years of service	1970–2010
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands	HHB, 1st Battalion, 84th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry Division; C Battery, 1st Battalion, 84th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry Division; 4th Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, 8th Infantry Division; Division Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division; Deputy Director, Human Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency; Director, Iraq Survey Group
Battles / wars	Operation Iraqi Freedom
Awards	Defense Distinguished Service Medal; Distinguished Service Medal; Defense Superior Service Medal; Legion of Merit

Lieutenant General Keith W. Dayton, (born March 7, 1949) United States Army, is the director of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Dayton served as the U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel-Palestinian Authority in Tel Aviv, Israel from December 2005 to October 2010. He has also served as the Director of the Iraq Survey Group, as a senior member of the Joint Staff, and as U.S. Defense Attache in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia.

Career summary

After graduating from the College of William & Mary in 1970, Lt. Gen. Dayton was immediately commissioned as an artillery officer through the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Prior to his current assignment, he spent 37 years in a variety of command and staff assignments, most recently serving as the director of the Iraq Survey Group during Operation Iraqi Freedom and as Director of Strategy, Plans and Policy, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3, United States Army, before his assignment as U.S. Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Other key assignments include deputy director for Politico-Military Affairs, Joint Staff; United States Defense Attaché, Moscow, Russia; senior Army fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; commander, Division Artillery, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), Germany; and commander, 4th Battalion, 29th Field Artillery; 8th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Germany.

He has written many technical articles over the course of his career, as well as was one of the co-authors of The Future of NATO: Facing an Unreliable Enemy in an Uncertain Environment, a study on the future of NATO published in 1991.

Lt. Gen. Dayton served five years as the United States Security Coordinator (USSC) for Israel and the Palestinian Authority. His leadership of the USSC team included overseeing the training of Palestinian Authority forces. He left Israel in October 2010 and retired from the military in December 2010.^[1]^[2]

In December 2019, Politico reported that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump was considering Dayton to be the nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.^[3]

Dates of rank

Second Lieutenant (3 June 1970)
First Lieutenant (3 June 1971)
Captain (3 June 1974)
Major (6 May 1981)
Lieutenant Colonel (1 September 1987)
Colonel (1 June 1992)
Brigadier General (1 June 1998)
Major General (1 October 2001)
Lieutenant General (10 December 2005)

Medals and decorations

Defense Distinguished Service Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Defense Superior Service Medal
Legion of Merit with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster
Meritorious Service Medal
Army Commendation Medal
Basic Parachutist Badge
Ranger Tab
Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge
Army Staff Identification Badge

Formal education

College of William & Mary – B.S. - History (1970)
Cambridge University – M.A. - History
University of Southern California – M.A. - International Relations

Military education

Field Artillery Officer Basic Course – Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
Infantry Officer Advanced Course – Ft. Benning, Georgia (June 1977 – December 1977)
U.S. Army Command & General Staff College – Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas (August 1981 – June 1982)
Senior Service College Fellowship – Harvard University – Cambridge, Massachusetts (August 1989 – June 1990)
Foreign area officer Course – Ft. Bragg, North Carolina (January 1978 – June 1978)
Basic Russian Language Course – Defense Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California (June 1978 – June 1979)
Soviet Union Foreign Area Officer Overseas Training Program – U.S. Army Russian Institute, Germany (June 1979 – July 1981)

References

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Roy J. Panzarella, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma (2006), Strategic Beacon in the Fog of Leadership: A Case Study of the Executive Military Leadership of the Iraq Study Group (which includes the official U.S. Army career summary of LTG Dayton to 2006)

Notes

^ Issacharoff, Avi (October 8, 2010). "Keith Dayton to retire after five years of training PA forces". Ha'aretz. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
^ Thrall, Nathan (October 14, 2010). "Our Man in Palestine". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
^ Bertrand, Natasha; Toosi, Nahal (December 16, 2019). "Trump team weighs ambassador pick for Ukraine as ties fray". Politico. Retrieved December 17, 2019.

[1] Issacharoff, Avi (October 8, 2010). "Keith Dayton to retire after five years of training PA forces". Ha'aretz. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

[2] Thrall, Nathan (October 14, 2010). "Our Man in Palestine". New York Review of Books. Retrieved 31 October 2010.

[3] Bertrand, Natasha; Toosi, Nahal (December 16, 2019). "Trump team weighs ambassador pick for Ukraine as ties fray". Politico. Retrieved December 17, 2019.

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