Stefan Thomas Possony

Stefan Thomas Possony
Born(1913-03-15)March 15, 1913
Vienna, Austria
DiedApril 26, 1995(1995-04-26) (aged 82)
Los Altos, California, United States
OccupationsEconomist, Military Strategy
Known forStrategic Defense Initiative

Stefan Thomas Possony (March 15, 1913 – April 26, 1995) was an Austrian-born US economist and military strategist and a Senior Fellow and director of International Studies at the Hoover Institution.

Possony was an academic specialist in communism who studied their warfare strategies. According to his friend Jerry Pournelle, the United States would not have won the Cold War without Possony.

He advocated for defense in the event of a nuclear attack, and thus conceived of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

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