Robert Ashley

Robert Ashley is a retired Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army with 36 years of service. During his final three years in uniform he served as the 21st Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Before that, he served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, G2, of the United States Army, and completed 6 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, as the Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command, and was the Senior Intelligence Officer for the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan. He currently serves as one of the 16 bipartisan commissioners on the Afghanistan War Commission, established by the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act to examine the strategic, diplomatic, and operational decisions made during the war in Afghanistan.