General Joseph P. Hoar
Gen. Joseph P. Hoar (USMC, Ret.) retired from the United States Marine Corps in 1994 after a long and distinguished career. During his last three years of active service, he was the commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command, the unified command that has planning and operational responsibilities for nineteen countries in the Middle East, South Asia, and the Horn of Africa. Highlights of his tenure include enforcement of the naval embargo in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf and the no-fly zone in southern Iraq; humanitarian and peacekeeping operations in Kenya and Somalia, support for operations in Rwanda; and the evacuation of United States civilians from Yemen during the 1994 civil war.
Hoar was the deputy for operations for the Marine Corps during the Gulf War, and prior to that, he was General H. Norman Schwarzkopf’s chief of staff at Central Command. Hoar has held a broad range of command and staff assignments. As an infantry officer, he commanded at all levels, from platoon to regiment. He also commanded three Marine Corps Air Ground Task Forces.
Following his retirement from the military, Hoar formed the consulting firm of J.P. Hoar & Associates, which is engaged in business development in the Middle East and Africa. Since 2002, Hoar has actively opposed the war in Iraq. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee and has written several articles for newspapers and magazines about his opposition.
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