Derek Leebaert
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Derek Leebaert is an American technology executive who writes books on contemporary history, politics and technology.
He is one of the founders of the National Museum of the United States Army.
Life
Leebaert served in the United States Marine Corps and had been captain of the Harvard University pistol team. He backs emerging enterprises which pioneer stronger, easier-to-use capacities for knowledge management and for building social communities. He has also been a partner in the Swiss consulting firm Management Alignment Partners (MAP AG) and was a co-founder of Linguateq (telecom billing data interoperability) which was sold to SONUS Networks. From 2009-2018, he was a trustee of Providence Health System (part of Ascension Health) and he remains involved in the national debate over access to healthcare.
Leebaert's book on elite military operations, To Dare and To Conquer has been on various United States Special Operations Command reading lists. It has been required reading in the Q Course at Ft. Bragg as well. To Dare and to Conquer was a Washington Post Book World "Nonfiction Best Book" of 2006, as was his subsequent book, Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan, for 2010. His latest book, Grand Improvisation (2018) was a New York Times "Best Book," and reviews are found in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Times (London), et al. Leebaert also co-authored the MIT Press trilogy on the IT revolution. .[1]
Works
- The Fifty-Year Wound: How America’s Cold War Victory Shapes Our World Boston : Little, Brown, 2002. ISBN 9780316518475, OCLC 47023559[2]
- To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations from Achilles to Al Qaeda New York : Little, Brown, 2006. ISBN 9780316143844, OCLC 859079737[3]
- Magic and mayhem: the delusions of American foreign policy from Korea to Afghanistan, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010. ISBN 9781439141670, OCLC 764542809[4][5]
- Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018. ISBN 9780374250720, OCLC 1019972309[6][7][8]
- Edited
- European security : prospects for the 1980s, Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, 1981. ISBN 9780669025187, OCLC 615033433
- The Future of the Electronic Marketplace, MIT Press, 1998.
- The Future of Software, MIT Press, 1995
- Technology 2001: The Future of Computing and Communications, MIT Press, 1991
References
- ^ "Bloomberg - Executive Profile, Derek Leebaert D. Phil. Director, Providence Hospital Corporation". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ THE FIFTY-YEAR WOUND by Derek Leebaert | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "The Commando Option Small groups of audacious soldiers have repeatedly shown the military value of the unexpected". Washington Post. 2006-03-12. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ Kaiser, Robert G. (October 10, 2010). "Book review: 'Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan' by Derek Leebaert". washingtonpost.com.
- ^ "Coffey | Magic & Mayem". www.unc.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ "How the United States Achieved World Leadership". Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- ^ GRAND IMPROVISATION by Derek Leebaert | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ Louis, Wm Roger (2018-10-16). "'Grand Improvisation' Review: Rising Eagle, Wounded Lion". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
External links
- Postwar Delusions: Why America Keeps Making Mistakes Abroad by Derek Leebaert
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- "Derek Leebaert". The Globalist. Retrieved 2018-10-27.
- "Derek Leebaert". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-10-27.