Richard E. Buys, Lt. Col. USAF (Ret)
Colonel Buys has a BA degree in Geography from the University of Minnesota; an MS degree in International Relations from Troy State University, Alabama. He completed the NATO Defense College in-residence course in Rome.
He has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle-East, and Asia. He served twenty-eight years in the USAF; first as a transport and reconnaissance pilot, then as a NATO defense planner. Later he contracted as an advisor to the Royal Saudi Air Force and was the Boeing technical writer for US Airways.
He recently served as a Senior Advisory Officer at the Brussels-based European Centre for Defense, Security and Environment. He has presented this topic at The Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, the Erie Club, and for the Erie Rotary Club.
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