November 30,
2000
Lt. General Patrick M. Hughes,
United States Army, Retired.
Lieutenant
General Patrick M. Hughes, U.S. Army (Retired),
President of PMH Enterprises LLC—a private consulting
firm specializing in intelligence, security and
international relations—retired from the U.S. Army on
October 1, 1999 after more than 35 years of active
military service.
His last assignment was Director,
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), U.S. Department of
Defense; a position he held for 3˝ years. Other
positions of responsibility included Director of
Intelligence (J-2), Joint Staff and DIA; Director of
Intelligence (J-2), U.S. Central Command; and
Commanding General, U.S. Army Intelligence Agency.
Lieutenant General Hughes commanded
troops at the detachment, battalion, brigade, and
separate Army and Joint agency level. He served two
tours of duty in Vietnam, in Korea, and participated
"on the ground" in U.S. military operations Desert
Shield/Desert Storm in the Middle East, in Somalia,
and in the Balkans. He has visited more than 120
nations and was formally trained in the Vietnamese and
Korean languages.
His awards and decorations include
three awards of the Defense Distinguished Service
Medal, the Silver Star, three awards of the Legion of
Merit, three awards of the Bronze Star for Valor, the
Purple Heart, and the award of the Combat
Infantryman’s Badge, the Parachute Badge, the Joint
Staff Identification Badge and the Army Staff Badge.
He is the recipient of the National Intelligence
Distinguished Service Medal, the Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency’s Director’s Medal, and
the Director’s Award for Distinguished Service from
the Executive Office of the President, Office of
National Drug Control Policy. He has received numerous
awards from foreign nations.
Lieutenant General Hughes received his
BS-Commerce from Montana State University, MA-Business
Management from Central Michigan University, and is a
graduate of the U.S. Army Command & General Staff
College and a two-year Fellowship at the School of
Advanced Military Studies. He has received honorary
doctorates from Montana State University (Business),
and the Joint Military Intelligence College (Strategic
Intelligence).
He currently consults for SYNTEK
Technologies, Inc., Corporate Positioning, Raytheon,
General Dynamics, MZM, Inc., Sverdrup Technologies,
Inc., Battelle, Northrop Grumman, BTG, Inc., UDT,
Inc., and other firms. He has given testimony to
several Congressional Committees and has presented his
views at the Central Intelligence Agency, Harvard,
MIT, the U.S. Special Operations Command, the National
War College, the Army War College, the Joint Forces
Command, the School of Advanced Military Studies, the
Foreign Service Institute, Montana State University,
the Joint Military Intelligence College, The Brookings
Institution, The Washington Institute of Foreign
Affairs, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the
World Future Society, the U.S. Commission on National
Security/21st Century and at Autometric, Inc., SAIC,
and other commercial firms. He serves on the Defense
Science Board’s Task Force on Defensive Information
Operations, the Defense Science Board Task Force on
Intelligence Needs for Homeland Defense, on the
National Commission to Review the National
Reconnaissance Office. He also sits on the Board of
Advisors of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and
the Board of Advisors of the National Youth Leadership
Forum on Defense, Intelligence and Diplomacy.
His published work includes numerous
papers and reports for the U.S. Department of Defense,
including a classified publication, A Primer on the
Future Threat, The Decades Ahead: 1999-2000. His
congressional testimony was published for four years
(1996-1999) with the title, Global Threats and
Challenges-The Decades Ahead. He recently wrote
the foreword to a novel by Major General (USA,
Retired) Charles Scanlon, Attaches II-Retribution.
