Lessons Learned

By Admiral Bobby Inman

Admiral Bobby Inman is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He served in the U.S. Navy from November 1951 to July 1982, when he retired with the permanent rank of Admiral. While on active duty he served as Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.

It was just after lunchtime on April 18, 1983, when a suicide bomber attacked the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.  63 people were killed and the shocking nature of the attack prompted the U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz to order an evaluation of the State Department’s security posture overseas.  He asked Admiral Bobby Ray Inman (Ret.) to take on the task.

The ‘Inman Report’ as it became known, made a series of recommendations to shore up America’s diplomatic exposure overseas. 

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