Learn something new! The Olam Tikvah Membership Committee is proud to bring you fascinating stories and interesting ideas from our members. Enjoy a 15 minute talk, followed by moderated Q&A.

This month, we welcome Norman Polmar to share stories from his job as a consultant to the head of the Israeli Navy in the 1980s-90s.

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About Norman Polmar

Norman Polmar is an author, analyst, and consultant specializing in naval, aviation, and intelligence subjects. He has been a consultant or advisor on naval issues to three U.S. Senators and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to three Secretaries of the Navy, to the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and to the leadership of the Australian, Chinese, and Israeli Navies.

He has written or coauthored more than 50 published books and numerous articles in the naval, aviation, technology, and intelligence fields. He has written columns for the Naval Institute magazines Proceedings (1978—2015) and Naval History (1997—present). From 1967 to 1977, he was editor of the United States sections of the annual reference Jane’s Fighting Ships, being completely responsible for almost one-third of that annual reference work.  He left Jane’s to become author/editor of the definitive reference books Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet (nine editions) and Guide to the Soviet Navy (four editions).

Mr. Polmar has traveled extensively in Europe, the Soviet Union/Russia, North Africa, Middle East, Far East, and the Caribbean, including Cuba. The visit to Cuba was related to his book Defcon-2 and the two-hour television film based on that book.