Douglas J. Feith
| Douglas J. Feith | |
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| Under Secretary of Defense for Policy | |
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In office 2001–2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Walter B. Slocombe |
| Succeeded by | Eric S. Edelman |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 16, 1953 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University (A.B.) Georgetown University (J.D.) |
| Religion | Judaism |
Douglas Jay Feith (born July 16, 1953) served as the under secretary of Defense for Policy for United States president George W. Bush, from July 2001 until August 2005. His official responsibilities included the formulation of defense planning guidance and forces policy, United States Department of Defense (DoD) relations with foreign countries, and DoD's role in U.S. government interagency policymaking.
Upon his resignation, Feith joined the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, as a professor and distinguished practitioner in national security policy for a two-year contract.
Feith is the director of the Center for National Security Strategies and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative public policy think-tank.
Feith was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of three siblings born to Rose (née Bankel) and Dalck Feith. His father, Dalck, was a member of the Betar, a Revisionist Zionist youth organization, in Poland, and a Holocaust survivor who lost his parents and seven siblings in the Nazi concentration camps. Dalck came to the United States during World War II, and became a businessman, a philanthropist, and a donor to the Republican party.
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