Giselle Donnelly (born Thomas Donnelly; June 13, 1953) is a research fellow at the

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for Public Policy Research (AEI). Donnelly is a writer, an analyst of military affairs and defense, national security and foreign policy and the author of AEI's ''National Security Outlook''. She has been a director at the

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Corporation on strategic communications and initiatives since 2002. She was deputy executive director of the

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of the American Enterprise Institute's Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies launched in 2012.

Career

Donnelly was educated at

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. She received her M.I.P.P. from the

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and a B.A. from

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. She began her career as a journalist at her family's ''Journal'' newspapers in the

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area in 1978. Two years later she began working at ''Army Times''. In 1985, she helped to launch ''

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'' and became its Deputy Editor (1984–1987). She returned to ''

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'' and served as editor from 1987 to 1993. During her tenure she redesigned the paper and oversaw writing on

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in Panama, the

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, and the mission to

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. She became executive editor of ''

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'' on 1994 and remained for one year. In 1995 she moved on to become a professional staff member at the

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Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services). She was appointed director of the Policy Group of the Committee, a post which she held from 1996 to 1999. She was the principal author of ''Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century'' published by PNAC in September 2000. Donnelly had begun transitioning before publicly living as a

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in October of 2018, taking the name Giselle.

Bibliography

*''Lessons for a Long War: How America Can Win on New Battlefields'' (AEI, 2010) Frederick W. Kagan *''Ground Truth: The Future of U.S. Land Power'' (AEI, 2008), coauthored with Frederick W. Kagan *''Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources'' (AEI, 2007), co-edited with Gary J. Schmitt *''The Military We Need'' (AEI, 2005); *''Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment'' (2004) *''Clash of Chariots: A History of Armored Warfare'', Berkeley Books, 1996 *''Operation Just Cause: The Storming of Panama'', Lexington Books, 1991

References

External links

Donnelly's scholar page on the American Enterprise Institute's official website

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Donnelly, Giselle Living people American women journalists American political consultants Ithaca College alumni Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni 1953 births American LGBT journalists Transgender women Transgender writers Sidwell Friends School alumni