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 Admiral Joseph W. Prueher
is as a consulting professor and Senior Advisor of Stanford University’s Center
for International Security and Cooperation. He also holds several board
directorships and advisory positions, and has authored a number of publications
on military affairs.
Admiral Prueher is eminently qualified to advise on such matters, having
recently completed thirty five years of distinguished military service. He
retired his command in 1999 to accept the ambassadorship to the People’s
Republic of China - thereby becoming the second highest ranking military
officer to enter the Diplomatic Corp. He remained at that post until May 2001.
For his first 24 years of service, Admiral Prueher served as a carrier-based
naval pilot, and received numerous decorations, including the Distinguished
Flying Cross, during combat over Viet Nam. He is veteran of over 1,000 carrier
landings and an experienced test pilot of attack aircraft..
From 1989 through 1995, Admiral Prueher served as Commandant of Midshipmen of
the U.S. Naval Academy, Commander of Carrier Battle Group One based in San
Diego, Commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and NATO Striking Forces, and as Vice
Chief of Naval Operations. In 1996, he was offered the Pacific Command.
As CINCPAC – the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command - Admiral
Prueher was in charge of over 300,000 military men and women dispersed over
half the globe. In 1996, he assumed the awesome responsibility of placing the
Seventh Fleet in harm’s way during a tense standoff between China and Taiwan.
In recognition of his outstanding service, he was decorated by the governments
of seven nations located within his sphere of command, and cited by former
Secretary of Defense William Cohen as a “national hero; a man of courage, a man
of principles.”
Admiral Prueher graduated with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1964.
He earned his advance degrees at George Washington University and the Naval War
College in Rhode Island. Currently, he resides with his wife, Suzanne, in
Virginia Beach, Virginia, near his daughter, Brooks, an urban planner and son,
Joshua, a Naval Officer in Washington D.C..
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