COL (Ret.) Larry Redmon retired as a U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel and Foreign Area Officer in June 2021 after nearly forty-three years of combined enlisted and commissioned service with nearly thirty years in and out of Southeast Asia.
Larry’s Special Forces assignments include service with the NATO Special Operations Command and Control Element in Afghanistan. Deputy Chief of the Iraqi Counter-terrorism Military Training Team in Baghdad, Iraq. He has extensive service with the 10th and 1st Special Forces Groups (Airborne). He served in Operation Joint Endeavor as a 10th Special Forces Group ODA commander in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In the 1st Special Forces Group, he served on the Group Staff and as a Company Commander during Operation Enduring Freedom-Philippines in Basilan, Mindanao. He has nearly thirty years extensive military experience in Southeast Asia serving as an ODA member, exchange officer with the Thai Army’s 31st Airborne Regiment, military advisor the Royal Thai Special Warfare Command, advisor to the Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Army and later, as a Foreign Area Officer, served as the US Army Attache for six years in Bangkok, Thailand. As a Foreign Area Officer, Larry also served as the US Army Attaché in New Delhi, India and on the Secretary of Defense Staff for Policy as Country Director and Acting Director for Southeast Asian Policy. He had also served as the Deputy Director for Counter-terrorism Policy in the Office of Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.
Larry received a MA in Advanced Military Studies in Revolutions and Insurgencies from the American Military University conducting extensive field work in the ethnic insurgent areas of Burma and a MA in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College. He attended the Royal Thai Army Command and General Staff College. Larry serves as Senior Advisor for Turnbull-Cowling International Ltd., Program Manager for the Guardian Defense Group Inc., and has consulted for the East-West Center, the Asian Foundation, the Rand Corporation, the Center for Naval Analysis, and the Royal Thai Embassy. He lives in Northern Virginia with his wife, Nuntalux, a son at Virginia Military Institute and a daughter at Virginia Commonwealth University.
