Thomas P. Odom

I retired from active service with the US Army in 1996 with my final 30 months as the US Defense Attache in Zaire 1993-1994 and Rwanda 1994-1996. I was point man for the US effort in the Goma refugee crisis in 1994 then after 40 days transferred to Rwanda on what was to be a 90 day temporary assignment. Eighteen months later I reached tracer burn out and retired.

My other overseas tours were: Turkey as an intelligence detachment commander 1982-1983; Khartoum, Sudan as a foreign area officer (regional specialist) trainee, 1984, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt as a UN Military Observer, 1987-1988.

I was the Army Staff current intelligence officer on the Middle East from May 1990 until April 1993, covering Desert Shield and Storm, the aftermath of Provide Comfort, and backstopping the entry into Somalia.

I are an Aggie, Class of 1976. I graduated from the Naval Postgraduate school and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in 1982 with a Masters in Middle East Area Studies. I taught Middle East military history at the US Army Command and General Staff College and wrote 2 books on the Congo (Leavenworth Paper #14 and the Shaba II Study). I also earned a 2nd Masters there. In 1992, I helped Major General (retired) Bobby Scales reseach and then write the Army's history on the 1st Gulf War, Certain Victory. In 2005 TAMU Press released my memoirs, Journey into Darkness: Genocide in Rwanda, with a foreward by retired Chief of Staff of the Army GEN Dennis Reimer.

I have been a civilian military analyst with the Army since August 2000, with one deployment to Iraq as the Politcal Advisor to the Commanding General of Multi-National Division -Baghdad/1st Cavalry Division in 2009.

I am a lifetime member of the United States Parachute Association, the National Rifle Association, and the Military Officers Association. Hunting and shooting sports are my passion.

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Journey into Darkness: Genocide in Rwanda (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
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Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War (Ausa Institute of Land Warfare Book.)
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Dragon Operations: Hostage Rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965
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by Thomas P Odom and Frederick M. Franks
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Shaba II: The French and Belgian Intervention in Zaire in 1978
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