The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency briefs a special Policy Forum on the shifting capabilities and strategies of terrorist organizations around the world.
On September 10, 2009, Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess addressed a Washington Institute Policy Forum as part of an ongoing counterterrorism lecture series sponsored by the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. General Burgess focused on the shifting capabilities and strategies of terrorist organizations worldwide, and what the United States and its allies need to do to counter this adaptive threat.
Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess is director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a position he assumed in March 2009. Previously, he served in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as head of the intelligence staff (2007-2009) and deputy director of national intelligence for customer outcomes (2005-2007). General Burgess has nearly thirty-five years of commissioned service in military intelligence and has also held key intelligence positions at the Joint Special Operations Command, the U.S. Southern Command, and the Joint Staff.
