ABOUT EDWARD W. ROSS
Ed Ross is the President and Chief
Executive Officer of EWRoss
International LLC. He is the former
Principal Director, Security
Cooperation Operations, Defense
Security Cooperation Agency; former
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for POW/MIA Affairs; and
former Senior Director for China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia in
the Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense for Policy.
As a US
Army Officer he served as the
Assistant Army Attaché to the
People's Republic of China, as a
senior political-military analyst in
the Defense Intelligence Agency, and
as the
Chief, Counterespionage-Counterintelligence,
500th Military Intelligence Group,
Hawaii, where he directed operations
in the Asia Pacific theater.
His
military service includes two tours
of duty in Vietnam.
As an artillery forward and
air observer with the 9th Infantry
Division's Mobile Riverine Force in
the Mekong Delta, Ed Ross flew more than
300 combat and combat support
missions in O-1 and H-23 aircraft.
As a military intelligence
officer, he commanded
intelligence-collection detachments
of the 525th Military Intelligence
Group in Pleiku and Nha Trang.
Ed Ross’
civilian awards include the rank of
Meritorious Senior Executive,
conferred by President George W.
Bush; three Secretary of Defense
Medals for Meritorious Civilian
Service, conferred by Secretaries
Dick Cheney, William Perry, and
Robert Gates; the Order of
Resplendent Banner with Yellow Grand
Cordon, presented by Republic of
China Minister of Defense Lee
Tien-yu, and the Outstanding
Achievement Medal, presented by
Philippine Secretary of National
Defense, Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr.
His
military awards include the Silver
Star, the Defense Superior Service
Medal, the Defense Meritorious
Service Medal, the Bronze Star, the
Air Medal with "V" Device with Oak
Leaf Cluster, the Army Commendation
Medal, the Vietnamese Cross of
Gallantry with Gold Star, and the
Aircraft Crewman’s Badge. Ed Ross
was inducted into the Artillery
Officer Candidate School Hall of
Fame in May 1997.
Ed Ross
has completed extensive postgraduate
work in International Relations and
United States Domestic Politics at
The George Washington University,
Washington, D.C. He received his
Master of Arts Degree in National
Security Affairs, "With
Distinction," from the Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey,
California. He received his Bachelor
of Arts Degree in Political Science
from Quincy College, Quincy,
Illinois.
He is a
graduate of the U.S. Army Command
and General Staff College, Ft.
Leavenworth, Kansas; the Industrial
College of the Armed Forces,
Washington, D.C.; the Defense
Language Institute, Washington, DC;
and the American Embassy School for
Chinese Language and Area Studies,
Taichung, Taiwan.
He has
traveled extensively throughout
Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and
North Africa. He is the author of
numerous articles on US-China-Taiwan
military relations and other topics.
He writes a weekly Internet column
posted at
EWRoss.com
and
The
DailyCaller.com.
