Paul E . Vallely Paul E . Vallely is a retired US Army Major General and senior military analyst for Fox News . He served in the Vietnam War and retired in 1993 as Deputy Commanding General , Pacific Command . In 2004 , together with retired Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney , Vallely co - authored the book " " . Vallely currently serves as the Military Committee Chairman for the Center for Security Policy and has lent his support to the organization Veteran Defenders of America . Family . He is married to Marian Vallely . Their son , Private First Class Scott Paul Vallely , died on April 20 , 2004 while in his fourth week of Special Forces Qualification Course Special Forces training . Education . He graduated from West Point and was commissioned into the U . S . Army in 1961 . He graduated from Infantry School , Ranger and Airborne Schools , Jumpmaster School , the Command and General Staff School , The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Army War College . His combat service in South Vietnam included positions as infantry company commander , intelligence officer , operations officer , military advisor and aide - de - camp . He retired in 1993 , at the rank of Major General , from his position as Deputy Commanding General , Pacific . Center for Security Policy . Vallely serves as the Military Committee Chairman for the Center for Security Policy in Washington , D . C . and occasionally writes columns and lectures on the War on Terror . Some of his public statements have caused controversy , such as saying " we are not going to permit " a Shiite victory in an Iraqi election , and claiming that the war on terror is a war between Islam and Judeo - Christianity : " That ' s what ' s going on . If you don ' t understand that , then you don ' t get it . " Veteran Defenders of America . General Vallely has recently lent his support to an organization called " Veteran Defenders of America " . In his letter of support he stated that , " Perhaps the greatest threat to our safety and liberty is the threat of radical Islam . This threat goes well beyond the threat of terrorism . Islamists , both inside and outside of America , are looking for any and every way to infiltrate and subvert our country through what is known as " stealth jihad . " He encourages US civilians ( veterans ) to be " eyes and ears of freedom , because we know freedom isn ' t free . " Tour of Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp . Vallely toured the Camp Delta detention camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base , Cuba in 2006 while collecting material for a book he intended to co - write with LTC Gordon Cucullu , entitled " The Myths of Gitmo : Torture , Abuse or the Truth " . Vallely and Cucullu later participated in an interview with " FrontPage Magazine " in which he blasted allegations of detainee abuse as " myths of the left - wing press " . He also voiced support for the force feeding of detainees attempting to undertake hunger strike s , claiming the detainees were " . . . simply restrained for 20 minutes so they can be fed Ensure . They get their choice of four flavors of Ensure . It ’ s put in a very unobtrusive feeding tube smaller than a normal straw and it ’ s put in there for 20 minutes , so they get breakfast , lunch , and dinner . They get to go back to their detention facility . " Force feeding of non - psychotic prisoners has been banned by the World Medical Association since 1975 , listing it alongside torture as a form of " cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment " . Vallely later admitted in the same interview that neither he nor Cucullu had actually spoken with any of the detainees to corroborate official reports of their treatment . When prompted further as to details of abuse , Cucullu stated that at least one prisoner " . . . may have been roughed up a little bit " , but immediately clarified " We ’ re not trying to do an exhaustive history of Gitmo in this thing . " Jerusalem Summit organization . Vallely is also a supporter of the Jerusalem Summit organization and an advocate of the organization ' s proposal to " relocate " / " resettle " Palestine and the Palestinian people to surrounding Arab countries as a solution to the Israeli - Palestinian conflict , and to bring about the organization ' s belief " that one of the objectives of Israel ' s divinely - inspired rebirth is to make it the center of the new unity of the nations , which will lead to an era of peace and prosperity , foretold by the Prophets . " Stand Up America US . In 2005 , Vallely founded a conservative political organization called Stand Up America US , that promotes the following issues : " First amendment rights , Second amendment rights , strong national defense and secure borders , national sovereignty , support of the armed forces , individual liberties and personal responsibility , fiscally responsible , limited government " . The organization endorses the views of Glenn Beck , and publishes fiction and non - fiction books to promote its message . The Plame Affair . Vallely made the following statement to World Net Daily on November 5 , 2005 regarding the disclosure of Valerie Plame ' s CIA affiliation : Maj . Gen . Paul Vallely told WorldNetDaily that Joseph C . Wilson mentioned Plame ' s status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three , possibly five , conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel ' s " green room " in Washington , D . C . , as they waited to appear on air as analysts . . . Vallely says , according to his recollection , ' Wilson mentioned his wife ' s job in the spring of 2002 ' - - more than a year before Robert Novak ' s July 14 , 2003 , column identified her , citing senior administration officials , as " an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction . " Vallely later said that only one such conversation had occurred : After recalling further over the weekend his contacts with Wilson , Vallely says now it was on just one occasion – the first of several conversations – that the ambassador revealed his wife ' s employment with the CIA and that it likely occurred some time in the late summer or early fall of 2002 . Joseph C . Wilson denied ever having disclosed his wife ' s CIA status to Vallely , and his attorney wrote to Vallely and World Net Daily demanding a retraction , as reported in that publication . Works . Together with Lt . Gen . Thomas McInerney , Vallely co - authored a book published in 2004 , entitled " " . Vallely also co - authored a 1980 paper with then PSYOP analyst Michael Aquino entitled " From PSYOP to MindWar : The Psychology of Victory . " MindWar is defined as " the deliberate aggressive convincing of all participants in a war that we will win that war . " The paper contrasts a use of psychological operations such as propaganda with a new approach . The paper contains this passage : Support of Lieutenant Colonel Lakin birther claims . In 2010 , Vallely was one of three retired general officers who expressed support for US Army Lieutenant Colonel Terrance Lee Lakin in his refusal to deploy to Afghanistan based on Lakin ' s claim that President Barack Obama had no legitimacy as commander in chief . In an interview , Vallely stated " I think many in the military – and many out of the military – question the natural - birth status of Barack Obama . " Following Vallely ' s announcement , Army Major General ( retired ) Jerry Curry and Air Force Lieutenant General ( retired ) Thomas G . McInerney also expressed public support for Lakin . When Lakin refused the orders to deploy , the military initiated a court - martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice . On September 2 , 2010 , the presiding judge of the court - martial ruled that Obama ' s status as a natural - born citizen is irrelevant in the court - martial case against Lakin , as Obama ' s eligibility is outside the jurisdiction of the military and falls within the jurisdiction of the United States Congress instead . Lakin was convicted on a charge of missing movement , sentenced to six months confinement and dismissed from the Army . References . Message Machine : Behind TV analysts , Pentagon ' s hidden hand " New York Times " , April 20 , 2008 ( David Barstow )