Henry J. Hendrix

Henry J. "Jerry" Hendrix (born 1966) is an American defense analyst, author, naval historian, and retired U.S. Navy captain. He has been noted for his work on force structure planning of the United States Navy, including the role of the aircraft carrier in modern strategic environments,[3] the structure of the carrier air wing,[4] and more recently, U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to build a 355 ship navy.[5]

Henry J."Jerry" Hendrix
Personal details
Born1966 (age 53–54)
EducationPurdue University (BS)
Naval Postgraduate School (MA)]
Harvard University (MLA)
King's College, London (Ph.D)[1]
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceU.S. Navy[2]
Years of service1988-2014
RankCaptain (O-6)
CommandsTactical Air Control Squadron 11 (TACRON 11)[2]
Naval History and Heritage Command[2]
AwardsLegion of Merit[2]
Defense Superior Service Medal[2]
Meritorious Service Medal (2)[2]
Air Medal[2]
Navy Commendation Medal (3)[2]
Navy Achievement Medal (2)[2]

Hendrix served as a senior military assistant to Andrew Marshall,[6] and has been suggested as a possible candidate for the offices of Undersecretary of the Navy[7][8] and director of the United States Department of Defense Office of Net Assessment.[9]

Education

Hendrix graduated from Purdue University in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He holds master's degrees in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School and history from Harvard University, and a PhD in war studies from King's College, London.[1]

Hendrix with Admiral James Stavridis as director of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Hendrix joined the United States Navy in 1988 as a commissioned officer, and completed his flight training to become a naval flight officer in 1989.[2] He was stationed with Patrol Squadron 10, and deployed to the Mediterranean, Red Sea, North Atlantic, and Caribbean. In 1994, he joined the USS Theodore Roosevelt as a tactical action officer, and deployed to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf. In 1997 Hendrix served as Fleet Training Officer for the Patrol Squadron 30 where he supervised the Aircraft Improvement Program. He then took command of Tactical Air Control Squadron 11 and deployed again to the Gulf.[2]

As a staff officer, Hendrix worked on the Chief of Naval Operations executive panel on homeland defense, naval aviation, and naval missile defense, as the Executive Secretary for the Irregular Warfare Quadrennial Defense Review at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, as an assistant to Andrew Marshall in the Office of Net Assessment, advising with regards to future developments in military technology, and was director of the Secretary of the Navy's advisory panel.[2]

At the time of his retirement, he was the director of the Naval History and Heritage Command and the official curator of the Navy.[2]

Post-military career

After retirement from the Navy, Hendrix worked at the Center for a New American Security, where he was a senior fellow and director of the defense program.[1] As part of his work with center, he testified before the Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower on strategies for achieving U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for a 350 ship navy.[10]

He is currently the vice president of the Telemus Group, a security consultancy specializing in defense forecasting, wargaming and qualitative analysis.[11]

Written work

Hendrix's work has covered a range of subjects within the fields of naval history, strategy, and planning. He is a vocal advocate of a "high-low" naval procurement policy, which combines limited high tech capabilities with an array of lower cost, lower maintenance ships, aircraft, and weapons systems in order to balance different grades of threats.[12] [13]

He is known for challenging the prevailing U.S. naval doctrine on a number of points. For example, he is critical of aircraft carriers on grounds of their high expense and questionable survivability in modern strategic environments.[14][15] [16] He has proposed modifying the structure of the carrier air wing to include more unmanned aerial vehicles, which he believes essential to countering modern threats. [17]

Hendrix also favors increasing the number and capabilities of strategic bombers. He contends that a large and effective fleet of bombers has a historical precedent of reducing the total length of wars, and can simultaneously force rivals to invest in air defenses while acting as a powerful deterrent.[18] His support for this policy is in part derived from his work on Theodore Roosevelt's use of naval power as a tool for diplomacy, which points to the conclusion that Roosevelt's naval strategy laid the foundation for establishing the United States as a great world power.[19] He is a proponent of Roosevelt's "big stick diplomacy,"[20] and views the strategic bomber as a means to carry on this tradition in the 21st century, and thus maintain the United States' status as a dominant superpower.

Hendrix has collaborated with Robert C. O'Brien, the current United States National Security Advisor.[21] His work has appeared in a number of media outlets, including the National Review, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, Fox News, the New York Observer, the Japan Times, Politico, as well as a number of national defense blogs.[22]

Literary awards
  • Naval Historical Center's Samuel Eliot Morison Scholar, 1994, 2004[23]
  • Naval Historical Center's RADM John D. Hayes Pre-doctoral Fellow, 2005–2006[23]
  • Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Lemuel Shepherd Memorial Dissertation Fellow, 2005–2006[24]
  • Surface Navy Association Literary Award – 2006[25]
  • Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's Colonel Robert D. Heinl Award – 2007
  • United States Navy League's Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement – 2007[26]
  • United States Naval Institute Proceedings Author of the Year – 2007[27]
  • United States Naval Institute General Prize Winner - 2007

Published works

Selected books

Selected articles, reviews, and commentary

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References
  1. "Dr. Jerry Hendrix". Center for a New American Security.
  2. "On the Occasion of His Retirement from Naval Service June 27, 2014". The Sextant.
  3. "Navy captain: Time to deep-six the old school manned aviation carrier — before long-range Chinese missiles do it for us". Foreign Policy.
  4. "How to fix America's broken aircraft carrier strategy". Washington Examiner.
  5. "Navy Is Still Searching For A Plan To Reach A 355-Ship Fleet". Foreign Policy.
  6. "Henry J. Hendrix. Former Director, Naval History and Heritage Command". Naval History and Heritage Command.
  7. "Why Jerry Hendrix Should be the Next Navy Undersecretary". The National Interest.
  8. "Forbes, Hendrix top contenders to lead Trump's Navy, source says". Washington Examiner. 2 December 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  9. "Aspiring Yodas: Apply to Fill Andy Marshall's Shoes on USAJOBS". War on the Rocks.
  10. "Statement of Dr.Jerry Hendrix, PhD, Senior Fellow and Director, Defense Strategies and Assessments Program, Center for a New American Security, 25 July 2017" (PDF). United States Senate.
  11. "Telemus Group". Telemus Group.
  12. "McCain's Excellent White Paper: Smaller Carriers, High-Low Weapons Mix, Frigates, Cheap Fighters". Breaking Defense.
  13. "Buy Fords, not Ferraris". U.S. Naval Institute.
  14. "Twilight of the $UPERfluous Carrier". Proceedings Magazine. U.S. Naval Institute. 137. May 2011.
  15. Zachary Cohen (22 October 2016). "Report: Pentagon should scrap $40 billion aircraft carrier program". CNN.
  16. "At What Cost a Carrier?" (PDF). Defense Technical Information Center.
  17. "Retreat from Range: The Rise and Fall of Carrier Aviation" (PDF). Center for a New American Security.
  18. Hendrix, Henry J. "Higher, Heavier, Farther, and Now Undetectable? Bombers: Long-Range Force Projection in the 21st Century" (PDF). Center for a New American Security.
  19. Hendrix, Henry (1 July 2009). Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1591143632.
  20. "Theodore Roosevelt's Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century by CDR. Henry J. Hendrix, USN". U.S. Naval Institute.
  21. "How Trump Can Build a 350 Ship Navy". Foreign Policy.
  22. "Articles by Jerry Hendrix | RealClearDefense Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  23. "Awards of Fellowships, Grants, Scholarships & Prizes for Articles – 1988 to present". Naval history and Heritage Command.
  24. "Sentinel, 2005 Annual Report - June 2006" (PDF). Marine Heritage.
  25. "The Surface Navy Literary Awardees". Surface Navy Association.
  26. "@WWATMD? USNI Writer LCDR Benjamin "BJ" Armstrong Receives Navy League's Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement". USNI Blog. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  27. "Close the Hole in the Navy's "Wholeness" Argument". U.S. Naval Institute. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
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