I was saddened when Dr. William Martel died earlier this year. He was taken from us at too young an age. He was a professor at Tufts with a strong interest in public service. Bill and I both served on Gov. Mitt Romney’s foreign policy team in 2012. He was an upbeat person, an action-oriented intellectual, and a patriot.
Bill was one of Romney’s advisers on Russia. He helped formulate the position that Russia was a geostrategic threat. This was greeted with snickers from many in Washington — after all, we had “reset” our relations with Moscow. The snickers stopped after …read more
Source: Foreign Policy