Claude Lambert

LTC Claude A. Lambert currently serves as the Director of the G-5/9 for U.S. Army Japan (USARJ) at Camp Zama. The G-5/9 Directorate provides strategic effects planning and bilateral relations expertise to the command through its Strategy, Plans, Political-Military, and Security Cooperation Divisions. This is done in coordination with USARJ’s embedded liaison officers to the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) regional armies. 

Before this role, Claude was a U.S. Army War College Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. 

Prior to that, he served as the J35 Future Operations Division Chief in the National Space Defense Center (NSDC), under Joint Task Force-Space Defense, a 2-star level functional component command of United States Space Command. The NSDC is a partnership organization supported by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Intelligence Community, focused on developing and improving the U.S. ability to rapidly detect, warn, characterize, attribute, and defend against threats to national space systems. 

Before joining the NSDC, Claude was a Strategic Planner at Army Materiel Command (AMC), a 4-star level headquarters responsible for providing national-level sustainment, acquisition integration support, contracting services, financial management, and selected logistics support to Army units, U.S. military services, multinational forces, and interagency partners. At AMC, he led multi-disciplinary sustainment planning teams in developing command strategies and operational plans that linked Army materiel readiness and modernization priorities. 

During his time at AMC, Claude was competitively selected for a 1-year operational assignment as the Strategic Advisor and Ministry Development Officer in the Office of the United States Security Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, U.S. Embassy Jerusalem. In this role, he was responsible for developing U.S. security policy in support of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Interior and the Palestinian Authority Security Forces.