National Security Speakers

Major General Hood (U.S. Army-Retired) is a Distinguished Military Graduate of Pittsburg State University and was commissioned as a Field Artillery Officer in 1975.

Throughout his career he served in numerous command and staff assignments in Europe, the 82d Airborne Division at Ft Bragg, NC, and the Middle East. Since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, he focused on issues related to the Middle East and combating terrorism as the Chief Operations Officer for NATO forces in Kosovo, the Commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, the Commander of First Army Division East, the Chief of Staff, United States Central Command, and Director of the International Security Assistance Forces Liaison at the US Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan. General Hood completed more than 36 years of distinguished service to the country as a United States Army Officer on March 1, 2012.

Since retiring General Hood has remained current on the range of geo-political issues burning in the Middle East. He served for 20 months in the United Arab Emirates providing strategic counsel to the UAE Land Forces as they sought to improve their overall military capability. He has also been involved with the development and acquisition of a wide range of commercial products with military applications. Since partnering as a National Security speaker, General Hood and General Horst have collaborated to lecture on a wide range of diverse and vexing national security issues from the Middle East, Europe, Africa, the Western Hemisphere, and the Asia Pacific region.