Blair, Dennis C.

Blair, Dennis C.

▪ United States military officer
in full  Dennis Cutler Blair 
born Feb. 4, 1947, Kittery, Maine

      U.S. military officer who was commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (1999–2002) and who later served as director of national intelligence (2009– ) in the administration of Pres. Barack Obama (Obama, Barack).

      Blair graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1968, and, upon receiving his commission, he represented the sixth generation of his family to serve as a naval officer. He was briefly assigned to a guided missile destroyer before being named a Rhodes scholar (Rhodes scholarship). He earned a master's degree in Russian language and history from the University of Oxford.

      Blair rose quickly through the ranks, and he received his first command—the guided missile destroyer USS Cochrane—in 1984. He commanded the U.S. naval station at Pearl Harbor (in Oahu Island, Hawaii) from 1989 to 1990, and he led the USS Kitty Hawk battle group from 1993 to 1995. Blair later served as associate director of central intelligence for military support (1995–96) and as director of the Pentagon's Joint Staff (1996–99). In 1999 he was named commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, the largest unified command in the U.S. armed forces.

      Blair retired from active duty in 2002, and the following year he was named president of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a nonprofit corporation that oversees research and development for the department of defense. He left that agency in 2006, when the Pentagon's inspector general found that Blair had violated conflict of interest rules by sitting on the board of a company whose products were being reviewed by the IDA. Nominated to serve as director of national intelligence by Obama, Blair assumed the post after being confirmed by the Senate in January 2009.

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