Derek Leebaert


Derek Leebaert is an American technology executive who writes books on contemporary history, politics and technology.
He is one of the founders of the National Museum of the United States Army.

Life

Leebaert served in the United States Marine Corps and had been captain of the Harvard University pistol team. He backs emerging enterprises which pioneer stronger, easier-to-use capacities for knowledge management and for building social communities. He has also been a partner in the Swiss consulting firm Management Alignment Partners and was a co-founder of Linguateq which was sold to SONUS Networks. From 2009-2018, he was a trustee of Providence Health System and he remains involved in the national debate over access to healthcare.
Leebaert's book on elite military operations, To Dare and To Conquer has been on various United States Special Operations Command reading lists. It has been required reading in the Q Course at Ft. Bragg as well. To Dare and to Conquer was a Washington Post Book World "Nonfiction Best Book" of 2006, as was his subsequent book, Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan, for 2010. His latest book, Grand Improvisation was a New York Times "Best Book," and reviews are found in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books, the Times, et al. Leebaert also co-authored the MIT Press trilogy on the IT revolution.

Works

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