Susan Puska
Ordinance Officer and China Foreign Service Officer
U.S. Army
Susan M. Puska, a colonel in the U.S. Army, is an Ordnance Officer and China Foreign Area Officer. Colonel Puska has served in logistics assignments in the Republic of Germany; the Republic of Korea; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and the United States. She was an Assistant Army Attaché in Beijing between 1992 and 1994, and was the Asia-Pacific Branch Chief and China Desk Officer in the Regional Integration and Assessment Division, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of the Army, International Affairs between 1996 and 1999. During the 1999-2000 academic year, she served as Director of Asian Studies, Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College. She holds a graduate degree from The University of Michigan in Asian Studies, and studied Mandarin Chinese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, and The Johns Hopkins University--Nanjing University Center for American and Chinese Studies in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China. She is the author of New Century, Old Thinking: The Dangers of the Perceptual Gap in U.S.-China Relations published by the U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, in 1998.