Colonel Larry M. Wortzel assumed the duties of Director of the Strategic Studies Institute in June 1998. From December 1997 to May 1998 he was Director of Asian Studies at the U.S. Army War College. Colonel Wortzel is a Military Intelligence Officer and Foreign Area Officer concentrating on China and East Asia. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Hawaii in 1984, and attended the National University of Singapore in 1982-83. Colonel Wortzel served as Assistant Army Attache in China from 1988 to 1990 and Army Attache in China from 1995 to 1997. Colonel Wortzel was commissioned from Infantry Officer Candidate School in 1973 and attended the Airborne and Ranger courses. He served in infantry battalions for 4 years as a Platoon Leader, Detachment Commander, and Battalion S-4. As an intelligence officer he has served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1984- 88), the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, the U.S. Pacific Command, and on the Department of the Army Staff. Colonel Wortzel is the author of three books, Class in China: Stratification in a Classless Society (Greenwood Press, 1987), China's Military Modernization (Greenwood Press, 1988), and Contemporary Chinese Military History (Greenwood Press, forthcoming). He is also the author of several articles on China and Asian regional security issues, including "China Seeks Traditional Great Power Status," ORBIS (Spring 1994), and Asian Security without an American Umbrella (U.S. Army War College, 1996). Back to Table of Contents China's Military Potential Back to SSI List of Issues Back to MagWeb Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by US Army War College. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com