Frank Leith Jones

Frank Leith Jones Jr. (born 5 September 1951)

Career

Public Service Jones first joined the United States Army as a commissioned officer during the Vietnam era. In 1979, he switched to public service as a civilian serving as a President Management Intern with the Department of the Army. Subsequently, he held a number of high-ranking positions in the Department of Defense. In 2006, he retired as a career member of the Senior Executive Service.

Selected publications A "Hollow Army" Reappraised: President Carter, Defense Budgets, and the Politics of Military Readiness. Blowtorch : Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War strategy. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press. OCLC 813910349. Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age. Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas. OCLC 1145089936. Obama and the Bomb: New START, Russia and the Politics of Post-Cold War Arms Control. Palgrave Macmillan 978-3-032-02571-5

Personal Jones is the son of Frank Leith Jones Sr. and Marie Clementine Smith.

On 29 January 1977, Jones Jr. married Sharon Marie Peters in Virginia Beach, Virginia.