The Honorable Franklin Kramer is a national security and international affairs expert. Mr. Kramer has been a senior political appointee in two administrations, including as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs for President Clinton, Secretary Perry and Secretary Cohen; and, previously, as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. At the Department of Defense, Mr. Kramer was in charge of the formulation and implementation of international defense and political-military policy, with worldwide responsibilities including NATO, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.
In the non-profit world, Mr. Kramer is a Distinguished Fellow and on the board of the Atlantic Council. He has been a Senior Fellow at CNA; chairman of the board of the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC; a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University; and an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, where he taught a course on “The Department of Defense and Winning Modern War.” In the private sector, Mr. Kramer has been a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner, a corporate board member and lead director for a public corporation, a consultant, and an operating adviser for a private equity firm.
On cyber, his publications include “Cyber, Extended Deterrence, and NATO,” “Cybersecurity and Tailored Deterrence,” “How To Stop Russia’s Hacking,” “Cyber Sanctions after Sony,” “Achieving International Cyber Security,” “Cyber Security: An Integrated Governmental Strategy for Progress,” and “Cyber Influence and International Security.” Mr. Kramer is the principal editor and wrote several chapters for the book “Cyberpower and National Security,”
On other national security topics, Mr. Kramer has written extensively: on NATO, including “Effective Defense of the Baltics,” “NATO’s New Strategy,” “NATO’s Framework Nations,” “NATO Global Partnerships,” and “A Maritime Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region”; on counterinsurgency, he was the principal editor, and co-author of the policy chapter, of the book “Civil Power in Irregular Conflict,” and the author of “Irregular Conflict, The Department Of Defense, And International Security Reform” and “Irregular Conflict and the Wicked Problem Dilemma: Strategies of Imperfection”; on innovation, he is co-author of “Innovation, Leadership and National Security; and on energy, he was the co-author and co-project director of “Transatlantic Cooperation for Sustainable Energy Security” and of “Central Europe and the Geopolitics of Energy.”
He has written numerous other articles on international affairs including “A New Western Strategy Toward Russia,” “A Real Response to Russia,” “Defend the Arteries of Society” on resilience, “Recasting the Euro-Atlantic Partnership,” “Making Peace Stick in Lebanon,” “Taiwan: Avoiding a Train Wreck,” and military power and “Tools to Win the Peace,” and he has chaired numerous task forces and conferences, including on post-conflict stability operations, on overseas basing, on China and the world economy, and on China-Taiwan-U.S. relations. He has given speeches on cyber security and cyber conflict, on energy and security, on the role of great powers in a globalizing world, on the future of NATO and the Partnership for Peace; and on the U.S.-India defense relationship. He has testified frequently, including since leaving the government on topics ranging from Chinese military power to strategic communications to cyberpower.
