Brig Gen Jonathan George is a Senior Fellow with the Flatter Executive Cadre.
Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force.
Summary: Engage On BRIGADIER GENERAL JONATHAN D. GEORGE Brig. Gen. Jonathan D. George is the Director, Strategic Capabilities Policy, National Security Council, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. General George was commissioned in 1981 and has had a variety of operational and staff assignments, including command of a bomb squadron, a bomb group, an air expeditionary wing, a bomb wing and an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance wing. His staff assignments have been at the Headquarters U.S. Air Force, U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy. The general is a command pilot with more than 4,000 flying hours in various strike, reconnaissance and training aircraft. EDUCATION 1979 Bachelor of Science degrees in agronomy and education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1985 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 1990 Master of Public Administration degree, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1995 NATO Defense College, Rome, Italy ASSIGNMENTS 1. February 1981 – August 1985, student, undergraduate pilot training, later, T-37 instructor pilot and runway supervisor unit controller, 71st Flying Training Wing, Vance AFB, Okla. 2. August 1985 – August 1988, U-2 and TR-1 instructor and evaluator pilot, 9th Reconnaissance Wing, Beale AFB, Calif. 3.
