Lawrence Korb

Lawrence Korb is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Korb served as assistant secretary of defense (manpower, reserve affairs, installations, and logistics) from 1981 through 1985. In that position, he administered about 70 percent of the defense budget. Korb served on active duty for four years as a Naval Flight Officer and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of captain. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the State University of New York at Albany.