Career Highlights:

            Principal, Quantum Technology Sciences, Inc.

            Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton, 2006-2008

            Vice President, SAIC, 2004-2006

            Commander, JFK Special Warfare Center and School, 2003-2004

`           Commander, US Army Special Forces Command (Airborne), 2001-2003

            Director of Operations, Plans & Strategy, US Special Operations Command, 1998-2001

            Commander, Special Operations Command Europe and TF Amber Star, 1996-1998

Education:     

            B.S. History, McPherson College

             M.A. Latin American Studies, University of Oklahoma

            Distinguished Graduate, School of the Americas Command and General Staff College                      Graduate, US Army War College

                                                                                                                                                          
Experience:

Major General (Ret.) Geoffrey C. Lambert entered the U.S. Army as a Private in 1969. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Infantry, Ranger, and Special Forces courses. Through numerous and repetitive assignments in Special Forces and the 75^th Ranger Regiment he became well versed in strategic, operational and doctrinal implications of counter-insurgency (COIN), counter-terror, occupation, information, and unconventional warfare operations. His forte was planning. He co-authored the successful counterinsurgency plan that was implemented in El Salvador. He was the J3 of the Task Force that wrote the Panama invasion plan, obtaining approval from US Southern Command and passing the plan over to the Joint Special Operations Command for refinement. He planned and conducted numerous strategic raids for NATO, executed several Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations, and was in command of US Army Special Forces (aka “Green Berets”) on 9/11, subsequently providing the forces for the core of the invasion of Afghanistan, three Task Forces for the invasion of Iraq, the central unit for Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines (OEF-P), and then ongoing operations in Colombia. He was one of many contributors to the new U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps counter-insurgency manual, FM 3-24.

Current Activity:

In 2010, Major General Lambert made several trips to Afghanistan, serving as the ranking military member of a team investigating the impact of military operations on civilian casualties. Findings were well received by then Generals McChrystal and Petraeus. In 2011, he conducted a similar study for US Special Operations Command, capturing lessons learned from Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines, comparing and contrasting the differences between the relatively unfettered direct warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan and the nuanced, indirect approach required for OEF-P. A struggling author, Geoff has written one novel, The Singleton: Target Cuba, numerous articles for professional military journals. He is prominently featured in the book Horse Soldiers, written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Doug Stanton.