http://www.clark04.com/about/His two books shed a lot of light on how he will govern. His last speech on National Security had some clues.
Here is some info about Clark:
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Wesley Clark rendered thirty-four years of public service to America as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces. Over his long and distinguished career, he has been a commander-in-chief, a strategist, a diplomat, an educator, a successful businessman, a best-selling author and a highly-sought public speaker and commentator on military and foreign affairs.
Clark graduated first in his class at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1966 and won a Rhodes Scholarship. He earned a Master’s Degree in Economics, Politics, and Philosophy from Oxford University in 1968.
One of the most decorated soldiers since Dwight Eisenhower, Clark commanded military units at every level from company to division. He led combat troops in Vietnam, where he was wounded and honored for gallantry in action with marked distinction in 1970.
After returning from Vietnam, Clark taught economics and political science as an assistant professor at West Point and worked as a White House Fellow in the Office of Management and Budget in 1975-1976.
In the late 1980’s and early 90’s Clark commanded the U.S. Army’s National Training Center at Ft. Irwin, California, and directed the Battle Command Training Program. He helped train the forces that fought in Operation Desert Storm in 1991 and prepared the U.S. Army to wage war in the post-Cold War world.
As a Deputy Chief of Staff as the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Clark played a pioneering role in integrating high technology and the digital revolution into Army operations.
Clark became Director, Strategic Plans and Policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joint Staff in 1994. In this role he served as the Joint Chiefs’ primary strategist and planner, overseeing global military-political policy.
As military aide to Chief Negotiator Richard Holbrooke, Clark played a pivotal role in the negotiation of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, which formed the foundation for peace in the war-torn former Yugoslavia. In 2001 he became the first soldier to win the Jit Trainor Award for Distinction in the Conduct of Diplomacy from the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service.
Clark served as Commander-in-Chief of two of the nine world-wide Department of Defense Unified Combatant Commands (U.S. Southern Command and U.S. European Command), exercising responsibility for the operations of hundreds of thousands of troops in dozens of countries. As Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, he led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces to victory in the Kosovo conflict over the brutally despotic regime of Yugoslavian dictator Slobodan Milosevic.
After retiring from military service in 2000, Clark became a licensed investment banker working for the Stephens Inc. He became Managing Director – Merchant Banking in March of 2001, a post he held until resigning in February 2003. He subsequently became a military analyst with CNN and a popular television and newspaper guest commentator.
Clark is chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, a strategic advisory and consulting firm, and serves on the Board of Directors of Messer-Griesheim, Acxiom Corporation and SIRVA Corporation. He is also Chairman of the Board of WaveCrest Laboratories, which is developing highly-efficient electric motors for military applications and future hydrogen-fueled automobiles.
His non-profit activities include trustee of the International Crisis Group, board member of the National Endowment for Democracy and district senior advisor to the Center for Strategic International Studies in Washington D.C. In 2003 he established his own non-profit, non-partisan corporation Leadership for America, intended to promote a national dialogue on America’s future.
Clark’s 2001 memoir of his role in the Kosovo conflict, Waging Modern War, reached the best-seller list. His second book, Winning Modern War, will be published in September 2003.
A highly sought public speaker, Clark appears before groups as diverse as the American Enterprise Institute and Federalist Society, to corporations, to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. He also remains active in public affairs, testifying before Congress on Iraq and strategic issues, as well as pressing for funding for local school districts.
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