Colonel (retired) John Haseman, US Army, Southeast Asia FAO, Content Editor, FAO Association Journal of International Affairs, and Chairman of the Journal’s Editorial Board *
Colonel Haseman is a member of the Defense Attaché Service Hall of Fame. He is a lifetime member of the Foreign Area Officers Association. John has been a member of the FAO Assn Board since 2009. He entered the Army FAO program in 1974, shortly after it was established; from 1974 through his retirement in January 1995 he “single tracked” as a Southeast Asia FAO. His FAO assignments included Army Division Chief, US Defense Liaison Group Jakarta, Indonesia (1978-81); Assistant Army Attaché, Jakarta, Indonesia (1982-85); Senior Intelligence Analyst for Southeast Asia, Army HQ, the Pentagon (1985-86); Defense and Army Attaché/SDO, Rangoon, Burma (1987-1990); and Defense and Army Attaché/SDO, Jakarta, Indonesia (1990-94). He served 2½ years in combat in Vietnam, with the 9th Infantry Division (1967-68) and as a district-level advisor (1971-73). Colonel Haseman holds a BA in political science (Univ of Missouri), an MPA degree in Public Administration (Univ of Kansas), and Masters Degree in Military Art and Science (CGSC-Fort Leavenworth). He is author or co-author of four books and numerous book chapters dealing with Thailand and Indonesia; more than 250 of his news and analytical articles on Southeast Asia political-military affairs have been published in journals in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia. John resides in Grand Junction, Colorado.