John Lehman
John F. Lehman, Jr. ( born September 14, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American investment banker and author. Between 1981 and 1987 he was U.S. Secretary of the Navy. From 2002 he was a member of the commission of inquiry into the attacks of September 11.
Life
Training
Born in Philadelphia, Lehman attended La Salle College High School in nearby Wyndmoor. He then studied International Relations at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia and graduated in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science degree. The Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts he received at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge, 1974, he received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
Military career
In Cambridge itself Lehman wrote one for three years in the Air Force Reserve Command. In 1968 he left the USAF and joined the United States Navy. There he was promoted to the rank of Commander. In 1969 he was appointed by Henry Kissinger in his staff at the National Security Council, where he worked until 1974. Meanwhile, Lehman worked at UBS and from 1977 to 1981 as President of the Abington Corporation. In 1981 he was appointed to the Navy Department by Ronald Reagan, which he directed until 1987.
He developed with the navy of 600 ships a major pillar of the armament of the Navy. The devised by him, " Lehman Doctrine" stated that an attack on the Soviet Union had to be done in Western Europe an attack on Soviet territory in the Far East. The U.S. should disconnect the Trans-Siberian Railway and fight westwards to Moscow.
1982 Lehman was actively involved in the forced retreat of Admiral Hyman Rickover. After the Electric Boat shipyard had great difficulty to manufacture the submarines of the Los Angeles-class, the Navy had to make large payments because she was insurer of the business at the same time. This made by Lehman Contract Part grabbed Rickover sharply. After it became known that Rickover had the mother of Electric Boat, General Electric Gifts assumed, a small incident with the submarine USS La Jolla (SSN -701 ) ( the boat lost the ability to control ), over the Rickover had direct control and the fact that it was already 82 years old, forced Lehman with the backing of Reagan, the retirement of the "Father of the nuclear Navy ".
Later career
Lehman is chairman of the capital investment firm JF Lehman and Company, also a member of several conservative think tanks in the United States, including such influential as the Heritage Foundation and the Project for the New American Century. He was appointed to the commission of inquiry into the attacks of September 11, 2001 2002.
Author
Lehman has written several books about the U.S. armed forces written, including On Seas of Glory, a treatise on the history of the U.S. Navy, America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them, as well as his biography, Command of the Seas.