Colonel (Ret) Alden M. Cunningham

COL (RET) ALDEN M. CUNNINGHAM'S life and military career provide an example of professional and family life that was typical of the US Army officer corps during the Cold War period at least from 1963 to 1990, especially as regards the Foreign Area Officer Specialty program.  His deployments and assignments ranged from Western Europe to West Point (Department of Foreign Languages), Washington, DC (Pentagon), and Carlisle, Pennsylvania (US Army War College), from Vietnam to Korea, and from Mexico to Nicaragua in effect covering most of the Cold War battlegrounds in situations from war, to no war no peace, to insurgency.  During the last 15 years of his career, he provided senior leaders with valuable support through his extensive intelligence reporting, instruction, direct advice, articles, and speeches to the public and military leaders both in the United States and Latin America.