Frank Kearney

Frank Kearney is a retired US Army lieutenant general who served more than 35 years, with operational and command assignments spanning Grenada, Panama, Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He participated in the opening campaigns of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, and later commanded US special operations forces across the Middle East. From 2007 to 2010, he served as deputy commander of US Special Operations Command, overseeing special operations forces and missions around the world. His final active-duty assignment was as deputy director for strategic operational planning at the National Counterterrorism Center, where he worked across cabinet-level agencies to coordinate government-wide efforts to implement the Obama administration’s counterterrorism strategy.