Born in Boston, he was educated at The Roxbury Latin School, and later at Harvard College (A.B. summa cum laude), Oxford University (B.A., M.A.), and Harvard Law School (J.D.). In March 2007 he left his position as United States Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs to become a Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution [1]. He was the author of More Precious Than Peace, a book on the Cold War in the Third World in which he praises the Reagan administration for warding off communism in places like Afghanistan, Angola and Cambodia. He was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, Project for the New American Century letter sent to the U.S. President Bill Clinton. He worked extensively with Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, amongst other things helping him