General bernard loeffke biography

United States Army general

Bernard "Burn" Loeffke (born Bernardo Loeffke Arjona on September 17, 1934, in Barranquilla, Colombia)^[1][2] is a retired major general of the United States Army.

He fought and was wounded in the Vietnam War and later served as the commanding general of U.S. Army South. He was awarded four Silver Star Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross, five Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and four Air Medals.

In the 1980s, he was the first American general to serve in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, as defense attache. He wrote the book China, Our Enemy?, which espouses peaceful relations between the U.S. and China.

General bernard loeffke biography

Biography

Loeffke graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1957. He has a B.S. in engineering, an M.A. in Russian Language and Soviet Area Studies from Middlebury College, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Miami.^[2] His 1978 doctoral thesis was entitled The La