FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
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[Faculty members are listed alphabetically under their service, agency, or civilian affiliations]
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3640Colonel Angerman is a member of the faculty of the Department of Military Strategy and Operations. His previous assignments was Deputy Inspector General for the Joint Staff. Other major assignments include command of 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Bliss, Texas; Deputy Post Chief of Staff, Fort Bliss, Texas; Associate Professor, English Department, United States Military Academy at West Point, New York; Staff Leader CAS-3, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Colonel Angerman holds a BS in Public Administration from the University of Missouri; a MA from Indiana University in English and American Literature, is a Doctoral Candidate in Higher Education Administration at The George Washington University; and is a graduate of the National War College. His areas of expertise are Armor and Cavalry Operations, National Military Strategy, Joint Organizations, Investigations and Intelligence Oversight, and Ethics.
E-Mail: angermanw@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1995
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Joseph P Avveduti Jr.,
CAPT/USN
Office telephone (202)685-3659CAPT Avveduti is a 1974 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and 1997 graduate of National War College. His career as a Naval Officer spans 23 years of active service. He commanded the first east coast SH-60 helicopter squadron, HS-3. Following command, he served as the Executive Officer of USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62) homeported in Yokosuka Japan. Upon completion of his tour as Executive Officer, Capt Avveduti took command of USS KALAMAZOO (AOR 6). Following his assignment to and graduation from NWC, he assumed the position as CNO Chair at the college.
E-Mail: avvedutij@ndu.edu
Joined the faculty in: June 1997
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Janet Ballantyne,
Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3687Janet Ballantyne is a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), holding the rank of Career Minister. She has served in Chile, Peru, Nepal, Morocco, Nicaragua and Russia. In Russia, she was the Director of the USAID Mission, a $1.3 billion program designed to ease Russia's transitions to capitalism and democracy. She has a Ph.D. in International Development from Cornell University.
E-Mail: ballantynej@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1999
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Christopher Bassford,
Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-4427Chris Bassford is Professor of Strategy at the National War College. He graduated with Honors from the College of William and Mary, then obtained an MA in American diplomatic history from the Ohio University before serving five years on active duty as a U.S. Army field artillery officer, with tours in Korea and Germany. He then completed a Ph.D. in modern European history at Purdue University before accepting an Olin postdoctoral fellowship in military history and national security studies at the Ohio State University. He has served as Director of Studies in the Theory and Nature of War at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College and as Associate Professor of National Policy Issues at the U.S. Army War College. He is the internet editor of The Clausewitz Homepage, a large educational website that focuses on the German military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz. Dr. Bassford is also the author of several books, including Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America, 1815-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1994). From 1995 to 1999 he was involved in the writing of USMC doctrine, authoring MCDP 1-1, Strategy; MCDP 1-2, Campaigning; MCWP 5-1, Marine Corps Planning (Draft); MCWP 2-15.3, Ground Reconnaissance Operations (Draft); and MCWP 3-2, Aviation Operations (Draft), as well as participating in the writing of several other USMC and Joint concepts and doctrinal publications. He is currently working on a new book, On Waterloo: The Exchange Between Wellington and Clausewitz (Westview Press).
E-Mail: bassfordc@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: September 1999
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Jonas L. Blank, Jr., Col/USAF
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3655Colonel Blank is a member of the faculty in the Department of Military Strategy and Operations. His previous assignment was Chief, Strategy Division, J-5, the Joint Staff. From 1991 - 1992 he commanded the 48TFW, 513 ACCW, and 100 ARW. Other previous major assignments include operations and support group commands, special operations assignment in Vietnam, and member of the INF negotiations delegation in Geneva. His areas of expertise are air operations, Joint Strategic Planning, National Security and National Military Strategy.
E-Mail: blankj@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1995
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Janet E. Breslin, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3670Dr. Janet E. Breslin is Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College. She came to the War College after serving for over 17 years on the staffs of the United States Senate. She was Legislative Director for Senator Patrick Leahy (D.Vt) and then was named the Deputy Staff Director of the Senate Agriculture Committee under his Chairmanship. Dr. Breslin was also Legislative Director for Senator Donald Stewart (D.Al) and Executive Assistant for Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D.Tx). She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. Dr. Breslin is director of the Economics for Strategists course at the War College. She also teaches courses on trade wars, congress and foreign policy, foreign affairs strategy, and the national security decision process.
E-Mail: breslinj@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1992
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Mark Clodfelter,
Lt Col/USAF
Office telephone (202) 685-3678Mark Clodfelter is an Air Force lieutenant colonel who is a ground radar officer by trade. After serving radar tours at Myrtle Beach and South Korea, he has spent the remainder of his career in military academia. That service has included two teaching tours in the Air Force Academy's History Department, one at the Air Force's School of Advanced Airpower Studies at Maxwell AFB, and one as Air Force ROTC Professor of Aerospace Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He holds a BS from the US Air Force Academy, an MA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His area of expertise is American military history, with a special emphasis on air power and the Vietnam War.
E-Mail: clodfelterm@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1997
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Bernard D. Cole, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3642Dr. Cole is Chairman, Department of National Security Policy, and Professor of Maritime Strategy and History at the National War College. His areas of expertise are U.S.-Asian foreign policy, Asian security issues, Sino-American relations, and Maritime Strategy. He has published one book (Gunboats and Marines: The U.S. Navy in China) and over two dozen articles, book reviews, and essays, the most recent of which is "Asia at Sea," in the March 1997 U.S. Naval Institute PROCEEDINGS.
Fax: (202) 685-4654
E-Mail: coleb@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1993
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Terry L. Deibel, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-4361Dr. Terrry L. Deibel is Professor of National Strategy in the Department of National Security Policy at the National War College. He is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva, Switzerland (Diplome), and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (MA, MALD, Ph.D.). Dr. Deibel's government career has included employment with the International Programs Division of the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, and the Department of State's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; his academic career has taken him to the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Dr. Deibel has published in Foreign Policy, International Security, The Washington Quarterly, the Foreign Policy Association's Headline Series, The Christian Science Monitor, and Politique Internationale, among other journals. His current interests lie in foreign affairs strategy, statecraft, and recent U.S. foreign policy.
E-Mail: deibelt@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1978
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Hugh S. DeSantis, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3671Dr. Hugh S. DeSantis is Professor of International Security Affairs at the National War College. Previously he was a senior staff member of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. Dr. DeSantis has also been senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he directed the European Security Project. A former career officer in the Department of State, he served on the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State George Shultz from 1983-84. He has also worked as Legislative Assistant to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) for foreign policy and arms control. In addition to his government experience, Dr. DeSantis has worked in private industry with Amoco International Oil Company and Booke and Company, a financial relations consulting firm. Dr. DeSantis holds a MA in International Relations and a Ph.D. in Diplomatic History from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Georgetown and Temple Universities. He is the author of "The Diplomacy of Silence" a study of the origins of the Cold War and winner of the Stuart Bernath Prize, and numerous articles on international affairs. He is also a frequent contributor to the opinion pages of newspapers and to radio and television talk shows. He is currently working on a book that seeks to explore the implications of global change in the decade ahead.
E-Mail: desantish@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: February 1991
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Alan Dowty, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-4462
E-Mail: dowtya@ndu.edu
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Michael Dunaway, CAPT/USN
Office Telephone 202 / 685-3710CAPT. Dunaway was commissioned from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1973, and received a M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1990. Operational tours have included duty aboard three destroyers; tours in command of a hydrofoil patrol craft and a guided missile frigate; and assignments to the staffs of Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group Three in San Diego, to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Bahrain, and the Strategic Concepts Group in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In other assignments, Captain Dunaway has taught on the faculties of the U.S. Naval Academy, the Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport, R.I. and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, where he held the CNO Chair of Strategic Planning.
E-Mail: dunawaym@ndu.edu
Joined the faculty in: September 1997
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Mike Everett, Ph.D.,
COL/USA
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3645COL Everett is the Director of Information Systems and Technologies within the Office of the Dean of Faculty. He is a graduate of the National Security Fellows Program at Harvard University, the Army War College, and the School of Advanced Military Studies. In addition to being a Desert Storm veteran, his previous assignments include: Armor Battalion Commander in Korea, Deputy G3 of the 1st Cavalry Division, Brigade S3, Battalion XO, and other staff assignments at Combined HQ, division, brigade, and battalion levels in CONUS, Europe, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. He has a Ph.D. in Education and holds Masters Degrees in Urban Studies, and Military Arts and Science. He is the co-editor of the book "Multilateral Activities in South East Asia." His areas of interests include the Pacific, Southern Africa, Strategic Art and Science, and Military Strategy. He is also the Co-Director of the "Strategists in Conflict" elective and principal faculty advisor for the Joint Land, Aerospace and Sea Simulation (JLASS) Exercise.
E-Mail: everettm@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1996
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Ambassador Peter W.
Galbraith, JD
Office Telephone: (202) 685-Peter W. Galbraith has been on the NWC faculty since October 1998. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the first US Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, where he actively participated in the negotiation of all three agreements that ended the wars in the former Yugoslavia. He was the co-mediator (with UN envoy Thorvald Stoltenberg) and principal architect of the 1995 Erdut Agreement that ended the war in Croatia by providing for the peaceful reintegration of Eastern Slavonia. From 1979 to 1993, he served as senior advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, handling the Foreign Relations authorization legislation and the Near East/South Asia region. His work on Iraqi war crimes against the Kurds was the subject of a 1992 ABC documentary. Galbraith has a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, an MA in politics and economics from Oxford university, and a BA in history from Harvard University. He is the author of published reports, scholarly articles, and op-eds on Iraq, the Kurds, South Asia security issues, and the Balkans peace processes. During the recent Kosovo conflict, Ambassador Galbraith was a frequent commentator for the major US and British networks, logging more than 150 appearances.
E-Mail: galbraithp@ndu.edu
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Dr. Melvin Goodman,
Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3677Dr. Melvin Goodman is Professor of International Studies at the National War College. Prior to this, he was a Senior Analyst in Soviet Affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department. Dr. Goodman is the author of three books on Soviet and Russian Affairs: Gorbachev's Retreat: The End of Super Power Rivalry in the Third World and The End of the Cold War. He has contributed to numerous books and periodicals on Russian policy and has written op-ends for the New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor on Russian and American national security. He has testified to numerous Congressional Committees; including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He has appeared on ABC's "Nightline," PBS' "MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour," and CNN. Dr. Goodman received his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MA and Ph.D. from Indiana University.
E-Mail: goodmanm@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1990
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LTC Robert L. Gordon,
USA
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3661Lieutenant Colonel Rob Gordon is a National War College fellow and continues to hold the position of Academy Professor and Director of the American Politics Program in the Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy at West Point. An artillery officer, he served in battalion and division artillery operational assignments in Europe and the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado. As a 1992 –1993 White House Fellow, he served in the White House as the Director of Special Operations in the Office of National Service, and in the Department of Veterans Affairs as the Special Assistant to the Secretary for Veterans Affairs. He was a Center for Public Management Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and also is the co-founder and head of the Service America, a national program bringing together cadets at West Point and young people in civilian service to address unmet needs in distressed communities. He was a member of a U.S. delegation that traveled to Italy in 1997 to advise the Italian government on national service reform. He holds a bachelor of science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has a masters degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and is a doctoral candidate at Princeton.
E-Mail: gordonr@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1999
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Bruce Gregory
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3660Mr.Gregory is a faculty member in the Department of National Security Policy. Prior to being assigned to the National War College, he served for 13 years as Staff Director of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, a bipartisan Presidentially-appointed public diplomacy oversight board. Previous assignments include a variety of program management positions in the U.S. Information Agency. He is on the adjunct faculty of the School of International Service at American University and a former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow. He holds an M.A. degree in International Relations from American University and a B.A. in History from Barrington College. His areas of expertise are public diplomacy, media-government relations, and national security process.
E-Mail: gregoryb@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1998
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COL Paul W. Herbert,
USA, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3657Colonel Paul H. Herbert, an Infantry officer from Galena, Illinois, currently holds the CJCS Chair. He is responsible for the integration of joint matters into the curriculum and for liaison with the Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff. COL Herbert is assigned to the Department of Military Strategy and Operations where he directs Core Courses 5612 (Joint Force Capabilities) and 5605 (Military Strategy and Operations), and teaches electives. Colonel Herbert is a 1972 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has served in airborne, air assault, mechanized and light infantry units worldwide, including command of the lst Battalion, 27th Infantry in Hawaii and a tour as a senior task force observer/controller at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Ft. Polk, Louisiana. He holds a Ph. D in history from the Ohio State University and is the author of Deciding What Has to Be Done: General William E. Depuy and the Writing of Field Manual 100-5, Operations, and several professional articles. He taught military history at West Point and has served on the faculty of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and Defense Economics in Garmisch, Germany. His most recent assignment was in the Strategy Division, and then as special assistant to the Director, in the J-5 (Plans and Policy) Directorate of the Joint Staff, where he worked on all aspects of the national military strategy.
E-Mail: herbertp@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: 1998
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COL James P. Hunt, USAF
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3662Colonel Hunt graduated from the USAF Academy in 1976 with a degree in civil engineering. His assignments include squadron command; operations group command; speech writer for the Commander, Tactical Air Command; and Requirements staff officer. He has flown the F-4, F-15, F-117, and U-2 aircraft in Europe, the United States, and the Pacific. He is a 1996 graduate of the National War College with a Master of Science degree in National Security
E-Mail: huntj@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: 1998
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Ilana Kass, Ph.D
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3647Dr. Kass is a Professor of Military Strategy and Operations at the National War College, where she also serves as Director of Russian Military Studies and Director of Studies of Warning, Surprise and Deception. She has held these positions since 1985. During 1992-93, Dr. Kass served on the Joint Staff, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J-5), supporting the Chairman, joint Chiefs of Staff, the Director, J-5, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of military positions and US government policy regarding the former Soviet Union and the war in the former Yugoslavi
E-Mail: kassi@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1985
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COL Donn P. Kegel, USAF
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3654Colonel Donn P. Kegel, USAF, faculty, National War College and United States Special Operations Command representative, NDU, received his B.S. degree in mathematics (1972) from Otterbein College, and his MPA (1979) from Troy State University. He is a graduate of the Army War College residence program (1993) and the Air War College. Prior to assuming his current duties, he served as Chief, SOF, Special Missions and Training Division, Directorate of Global Reach Programs, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, in the Pentagon (1993-1998).
E-Mail: Kegeld@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1998
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Robert G. Kugler, Jr.
Office telephone: (202) 685-3669Mr. Kugler is the National Security Agency's Representative to the National Defense University. He has spent most of his career in technical development and technical support functions, serving as Program Manager for several major Intelligence Programs. He has served overseas in Japan and in Germany, managed a real-time operations center, and headed the Director's Strategic Planning Staff. He received a BA in Liberal Arts and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, and a MS in Engineering Administration from George Washington University. Mr. Kugler is a 1989 graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
E-Mail: kuglerrg@ndu.edu
Joined Faculty: August 1998
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COL Randall J. Larsen,
USAF
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3636Colonel Randy Larsen is the Chairman, Department of Military Strategy and Operations at the National War College. He has 32 years of active service in both the Army and Air Force. He flew 400 combat missions in Vietnam as a Cobra gunship pilot. He has also flown numerous USAF aircraft including the T-38, KC-135, C-5, C-9 and most recently the Boeing 757 when he served as the commander of the 89 Operations Group at Andrews Air Force Base. His staff assignments have included: assistant air attaché, Thailand; chief of media relations at Military Airlift Command; and chief of legislative affairs at USTRANSCOM. He is a graduate of the Naval Post Graduate School and served as a National Defense Fellow at the Matthew Ridgway Center for International Security Studies. Colonel Larsen teaches an elective on Homeland Defense and has written numerous articles on Biological Warfare.
E-Mail: larsenr@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1998
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COL Jack E. Leonard, USAF
Office telephone: (202) 685-3681Col Leonard is a member of the faculty in the Department of National Security Policy. His previous assignment was Chief, Maintenance Management Division, Directorate of Maintenance, Deputy Chief of Staff/Installation and Logistics, HQ USAF, Washington, DC. Prior to that, he commanded the 374th Logistics Group (Yokota AB, Japan), the 982nd Training Group (Sheppard AFB, TX) and the 97th Support Group (Altus AFB, OK). He has 2,000 hours flying experience in the B-52G and B-52H aircraft. Col Leonard holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in International Relations from the USAF Academy and a Master of Science Degree in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology's School of Engineering. He is an in-residence graduate of SOS, ACSC, and National War College. His areas of expertise include strategic nuclear warfare, logistics, organizational leadership, organizational excellence, and ethics.
E-Mail: leonardj@ndu.edu
Joined Faculty: 1999
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Robert Levine, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3682
E-Mail: leviner@ndu.edu
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James W. Lucas, D.A.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3646Dr. Lucas is the DIA Executive Representative to the National Defense University, and Professor at the National War College. His areas of expertise are the American Presidency, National Security Policy Process and the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Fax: (202) 685-4249
e-mail: lucasj@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1997
Dr. Lucas attended DePauw and Ball State Universities, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Social Science, and a Master of Arts in Political Science. He earned a Doctor of Arts in Public Administration (National Security Policy) from George Mason University and has completed extensive post graduate work in international politics at American University. He is a graduate of the Management Development Program of Harvard University, the Air War College, Air Command and Staff College , Defense Intelligence College, and Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Dr. Lucas has over 30 years of military and civilian experience in intelligence and national security affairs. He began his public service career when he was appointed as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and retired in 1996 as a Brigadier General while assigned to the U.S. Air Force Academy. During this period, as a military officer or civilian executive, he has served on the staff of an Air Force Wing, a numbered air force, a major command, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Defense Intelligence Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Intelligence Community Staff, and the National Security Council, the White House. In the Vietnam conflict he served as an air combat intelligence officer and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross.
Throughout his career, Dr. Lucas has worked as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at the three military academies, several civilian colleges and universities, the military war colleges, and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has also been a full-time professor, associate dean, and dean of a graduate school, and the reserve superintendent, U.S. Air Force Academy and commandant, Air Force Institute of Technology.
Dr. Lucas became a member of the Air Force Senior
Executive Service in 1981 when he was appointed the Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force, and was appointed to the Defense Intelligence
Senior Executive Service in 1989, when he was se selected as the Dean of
the Defense Intelligence College.
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CAPT James F. Mader, USN
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3643Captain James F. Mader, USN, graduated from the University of Illinois NROTC Program in 1971. He was designated a naval aviator and helicopter pilot in 1972. Following sea tours in combat support operations, airborne mine countermeasures and vertical onboard delivery, he commanded Helicopter Training Squadron Eight at Milton, Fl. He was the first commanding officer of the Helicopter Tactical Wing Pacific, based in San Diego, Ca. Capt. Mader is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. and holds a Master of Science degree in Public Administration from The Pennsylvania State University, Shippensburg, Pa. His most recent tour of duty prior the War College was as Defense and Naval Attaché in London, U.K.
E-Mail: maderj@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1999
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COL John H. McDonald,
Jr., USA
Office telephone: (202) 685-3653Colonel John H. "Jack" McDonald Jr., USA is the current Chief of Staff of the Army Chair at the National War College. He received his B.S. degree from the U.S. Military Academy (1974). He also holds a M.A. in History from Duke University (1983), an MMAS in Theater Operations from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies (1989), and an M.S. in National Security Studies from the National War College (1996). Commissioned in the Field Artillery, he served as a battery commander in Germany (1978-80), a battalion operations officer at Fort Drum, NY (1989-90) and a battalion commander in Korea (1992-94). He was the G3 Operations and Deputy G3 of the 10th Mountain Division (1991-92), taught military history at West Point (1983-87) and joined the faculty after serving as the military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.
Email: mcdonaldj@ndu.edu
Joined Faculty: July 1998
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CAPT Michael P. McGahan,
USN
Office Telephone 202 / 685-3652
E-Mail: mcgahanp@ndu.edu
Joined the faculty in: July, 1998
CAPT Pat McGahan was commissioned from the U.S.
Naval Academy in 1970. As a nuclear ubmariner, he spent 25 years
at sea in various classes of fast attack and fleet ballistic missile submarines,
as well as deep submergence vehicles. He commanded DSRV MYSTIC (DSRV-1),
USS SIMON BOLIVAR (SSBN 641) and SUBMARINE SQUADRON 22, the US forward
deployed fast attack squadron in the Mediterranean Sea. He graduated from
the National War College in 1996 and served as Deputy Director of the US
Nuclear Command and Control System Support Staff prior to joining
the NWC faculty.
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David H. McIntyre,
COL/USA
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3637Colonel McIntyre is the Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs at the National War College. For four years before joining the NWC faculty, he worked strategic issues and wrote for the Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Command, in Honolulu, Hawaii. As an armor officer, he has served in airborne and armored cavalry units in both the United States and Germany. While assigned to the Office of the Chief of Staff, Army, he twice wrote the Army’s Annual Report to Congress. He also served as an Associate Professor in the Department of English, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. COL McIntyre is a graduate of the Army’s Command and General Staff College, the Army War College, and the National War College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from West Point, a master's degree in English and American literature from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Maryland. The subject of his dissertation was Offense-Defense Theory and the Revolution in Military Affairs. He is Airborne, Ranger, and Jumpmaster qualified, and has ten years of joint experience. His areas of expertise are Security Studies and Grand Strategy, National and Military Strategy, Joint and Combined Theater-level Strategy, and Asia-Pacific Security Issues.
E-Mail: mcintyred@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1993
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Richard A. Melanson
Office Telephone; (202) 685-3686Dr. Richard A. Melanson is Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College. He earned his BA (summa cum laude) from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. Before joining the National War College, Dr. Melanson taught at Brown University, Kenyon College and U.C.L.A. He is the author or editor of six books and several professional journal articles. His areas of specialization include foreign policy and public opinion, grand strategy, and international relations theory.
E-Mail: melansonr@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1992
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Steven J. Monblatt
Office Telephone: (202) 685-4461Mr. Monblatt is a career Foreign Service Officer (Minister-Counselor) with the Department of State, formerly with the US Information Agency. He has spent most of his career overseas, serving in US Embassies in Indonesia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Spain, India, Turkey, Mexico and Brazil. In his Washington assignments, he has headed USIA's Wireless File and Publications programs, and was instrumental in designing and launching Worldnet, the Agency's interactive, worldwide TV network, for which he won a Superior Honor Award. Mr. Monblatt has also won the Leonard Marks Award for Creativity in Communication and a Presidential Performance Award for management in foreign affairs.
E-Mail: monblatts@ndu.edu
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Clark A. Murdock, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-
E-Mail: murdockc@ndu.edu
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George J. Murphy, CAPT/USN
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3667Captain George J. Murphy received his commission in 1972 through the NROTC Program at Villanova University. A Naval Flight Officer, he has had numerous fleet assignments in maritime patrol and air reconnaissance squadrons, including command of Patrol Squadron TWENTY-FOUR. Shore duty assignments have been on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations as an action officer in the Strategic Concepts Group, and later as head of the East Asia and Pacific Politico-Military Affairs Branch. Captain Murphy graduated with distinction from both the junior and senior courses at the Naval War College, and received the 1994 J. William Middendorf, II, Award for outstanding strategic advanced research. He holds Masters’ degrees in International Relations and National Security and Strategic Studies. Captain Murphy joined the faculty of the National War College in July 1997, and presently serves as Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Programs.
FAX: (202) 685-6461
E-mail: murphyg@ndu.edu
Joined the faculty in: July 1997
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John T. Nelsen, USA
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3668Colonel John T. Nelsen II joined the faculty of the National War College on 28 July 1998. He is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute with a BS in Mathematics, and the recipient of the Hughes-Army ROTC Trophy (Outstanding ROTC graduate in the nation for 1971). He received his commission as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry. His professional military education includes U.S. Army War College, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies, the Armor Officers’ Career Course, the Foreign Area Officers’ Course, and the Defense Language Institute (for German). He holds a Masters Degree in European History from the University of Wisconsin, and a Masters of Military Art and Science Degree from the Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Colonel Nelsen has served at every major level from platoon through corps. His most recent operational assignments were as Chief, Strategy Division, J-5, the Joint Staff; Commander, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Riley, Kansas; Chief of Staff of the Army Strategic Fellow, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; Chief, War Plans Division, G3, III Corps, Fort Hood, TX; Commander, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment (Mechanized), 8th Infantry Division, Baumholder, Germany; and Senior Task-Force Observer-Controller, the Combat Maneuver Training Center, Hohenfels, Germany.His previous assignments include duties as Rifle Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, mechanized Rifle Company Commander, and Assistant Secretary of the General Staff, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas; Assistant Professor of History, U.S. Military Academy; Assistant Chief of Staff, G5, 2nd Armored Division (Forward), Garlstedt, Germany; and Executive Officer, 4th Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment (Mechanized), Garlstedt, Germany. Colonel Nelsen’s personal decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (1 OLC), the Meritorious Service Medal (4 OLC), the Joint Commendation Medal, the Army Commendation Medal (2 OLC), the Army Achievement Medal (1 OLC), the Joint Meritorious Unit Citation (1 OLC), the Expert Infantryman Badge, the Parachutist Badge, and the Joint Staff Badge.
E-Mail: nelsenj@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: 28 July 99
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John C. Odell, USA
Office Telephone: (202) 685-
E-Mail: odellj@ndu.edu
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Bard E. O'Neill, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3691Dr. Bard E. O'Neill is Professor of National Security Policy. He earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Dr. O'Neill has taught at the Air Force Academy, University of Denver and University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is currently Adjunct Full Professor at Catholic University where he teaches graduate courses in the Department of Politics. His areas of specialization are the Middle East, international politics and the comparative analysis of internal wars. Dr. O'Neill is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles on these subjects.
E-Mail: oneillb@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1976
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Marvin C. Ott, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3692Dr. Marvin C. Ott is Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College. He received a BA degree from the University of Redlands in 1963. He undergraduate education included a year at Chung Chi College in Hong Kong. He received his MA and Ph.D. in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) with a specialization in Southeast Asia. He served as a civilian in Vietnam (Banmethout, Darlac Province) in 1965. His professional positions have included: Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College; senior research and management positions at the Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress); Senior Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; consultant, National Academy of Sciences; Southeast Asia Chairperson, Foreign Service Institute; and Deputy Staff Director, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is author of numerous articles and book chapters and over 100 op-eds, principally on East Asian and Intelligence topics. He appears as a regular commentator on CNN's Business Asia.
E-Mail: ottm@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: November 1991
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COL David H. Peeler,
USMC
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3644Col Peeler serves as the Commandant of the Marine Corps chair as well as a faculty member of the Department of Military Strategy and Operations. A recent Graduate of National War College, he served as Commanding Officer of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 before attending National. Prior to that he served at Headquarters Marine Corps, in Aviation Plans and Policy. Col Peeler flew the FA-18 in Desert Shield and Desert Storm while serving as the Executive Officer of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 212. He has also served as Training Officer for CG 1st Marine Division and as Forward Air Controller and Air Officer for 3rd Tank Battalion.
E-Mail: peelerd@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1999
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COL Mark B. Pizzo, USMC
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3665Colonel Mark Pizzo, USMC, Senior Marine Faculty, National War College, received his B.A. degree (1971) from San Jose State University, and his M.S. (1993) from Syracuse University (Maxwell School of Citizenship). He also is a graduate of the National War College (1991), He attended numberous military schools throughout his career.
E-Mail: pizzom@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: 1998
Prior to joining the NWC faculty in 1998, he served
as Deputy Director, Personnel Management Division, HQMC, Washington, DC
(1996-1998); Commanding Officer, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special
Operations Capable) (1994-1996) and Assistant Chief of Staff (G-3 Operations),
3rd Marine Division (1993-1994), Okinawa, Japan.
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Albert C. Pierce, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3655Dr. Pierce has been Professor of Military Strategy at the National War College since February 1985. He was previously defense correspondent for NBC News, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense in the Carter Administration, and Deputy Director of the Strategic Concepts Development Center (an in-house DOD think tank created during the Reagan Administration); he also served with the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He teaches, lectures, and writes frequently on the political use of military force overseas, ethics and international affairs (including the use of military force), the military and the media, civil-military relations, and French security policy. He is a cum laude graduate of the Catholic University of America, and he holds an MA and a Ph.D. in political science from Tufts University.
E-Mail: piercea@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: June 1985
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COL Eugene H. Powell,
Jr., USAF
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3651Col Powell entered the U.S. Air Force in June 1976 as a distinguished graduate of the East Carolina University ROTC program. He has been a Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander Instructor and Missile Combat Crew Commander Evaluator. He served at Johnson Space Center, NASA, as the lead Payload Flight Operations Instructor for four Shuttle missions and at the Satellite Control Facility, Onizuka Air Force Station, as the lead U.S. Air Force Flight Director for three Shuttle missions. As an Air Staff officer at the Pentagon he was the Program Element Monitor (PEM) for the space launch ranges and the Air Force Satellite Control network. He commanded the 16th Space Surveillance Squadron (SPSS), Eareckson Air Force Station, Alaska (Shemya Island). He served as a Space Director in the Space Control Center in the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center and later as the Chief, Standardization/Evaluation Division before attending the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). After graduation he served as an evaluator for the Office of Intelligence Review, Department of Defense Inspector General and later as Executive Officer for that same office.
E-Mail: powelle@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: January 1999
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Ambassador Robert M.
Pringle
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3706Bob Pringle is a career Foreign Service Officer with experience in Southeast Asia and Africa. He was most recently Deputy Chief of Mission in South Africa and served as Ambassador to Mali (1987-1990). His Washington postings have included a tour as Office Director for Central Africa (AF/C) (1990-92), a tour as Director of the Africa Bureau’s Economic Policy Staff (AF/EPS) (1980-83) and as Director of the office that handles biodiversity and conservation issues in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs (OES/ETC) (1992-94). He was Dean of the Senior Seminar, State’s highest level training course, from 1995 to 1996. Other foreign assignments included Indonesia (1970-74), the Philippines (1974-77), Burkina Faso (1983-85) and Papua New Guinea (1985-87), and he did doctoral research in Sarawak, Malaysia before joining the State Department. He has a BA from Harvard (American History) and a PhD from Cornell (Southeast Asian History) and has published two books on Southeast Asia.
E-Mail: pringler@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1999
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George H. Quester, Ph.D.
Office telephone: (202) 685-3650George Quester has been a Professor at the University of Maryland since 1982, teaching courses on International Relations, American Foreign Policy, and International Military Security. He has also taught previously at Harvard and Cornell Universities, U.C.L.A., the United States Naval Academy, and (from 1981 to 1982) at the National War College. He is the author of a number of books and academic journal articles in the above-noted fields, and is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations.
E-mail: Questerg@ndu.edu
Joined Faculty: July, 1999
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David A. Rosenberg,
Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3656David Alan Rosenberg is the first holder of the Admiral Harry W. Hill Chair of Maritime Strategy at the National War College for the academic years 1996-1998. A tenured associate professor of modern military, naval and diplomatic history at Temple University on leave, he received his Ph.D. in history with distinction in 1983 from the University of Chicago. Rosenberg has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Houston, prepared special analyses for the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during a previous tour at the National Defense University. He also taught strategy and operations at the U.S. Naval War College from 1985 to 1990.
E-Mail: rosenbergd@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1996
He has published dozens of articles, essays, book chapters, and monographs on post-World War II military and naval history and on the history of nuclear strategy. His current projects include: (1) a book of his revised and updated essays on military, naval, and nuclear strategy, 1945 - 1990, (2) a life and times biography of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke and the U.S. Navy, and (3) a history of concepts, plans, and policies relating to a Third World War between the superpowers from 1945 to 1990.
In 1988, in recognition for his work on the history
of nuclear strategy, Rosenberg became the first military historian to be
awarded a five year John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. A commander
(special duty, intelligence) in the U.S. Naval Reserve, he served on active
duty with the Joint Staff during Operation DESERT STORM. In 1995, Rosenberg
was awarded the Department of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Citation
by the Chief of Naval Operations for his work on current strategy and policy
issues. He was also appointed to and was subsequently elected the Chair
of the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Committee on Naval History.
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Gebhard L. Schweigler,
Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3666Dr. Gebhard L. Schweigler came to the National War College as Professor of International Relations and National Security after twenty years of working as a Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute for International Affairs and National Security of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Ebenhausen (Germany). His research focuses on American politics, German foreign policy, transatlantic relations and emerging issues in international affairs (such as the growth of the Internet). His numerous publications, in both English and German, reflect his broad range of interests. Dr. Schweigler has taught as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College (1992, 1994) and as the Konrad Adenauer Visiting Professor at Georgetown University (1997-98). He has also been a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1984-85) and served as the Representative in Europe of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (1976-79). Dr. Schweigler received his degrees in political science from Harvard (A.B. 1967), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A. 1968), and again from Harvard (Ph.D. 1972).
E-Mail: schweiglerg@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1999
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Tom Smith, COL/USA
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3658Colonel Thomas E. Smith, U.S. Army, joined the faculty of the National War College as a Professor of Military Strategy in July 1996, following a three year assignment as Military Assistant to the Director, Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense. In a previous assignment in the Pentagon, COL Smith was Editor of the Army Posture Statement, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army.
E-Mail: smitht@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in June 1996
COL Smith has served in a variety of Army Air Defense positions, including assignments in Germany for a total of six years, at Fort Bliss, Texas, and with the 4th Infantry Division in Colorado. He became involved with the Patriot missile program in 1984 during the fielding of the early units, serving as Executive Officer of a battalion from its activation, through initial training and deployment from Texas to Germany. In 1990 and 1991, COL Smith was the Commander of the Patriot Air Defense Battalion that defended Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.
COL Smith is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy
and holds masters degrees from the JFK School of Government at Harvard
University and from Long Island University. He was assigned for three years
as an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the U.S. Military
Academy, West Point.
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Robert M. Soofer, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3704Dr. Robert M. Soofer is detailed to the National War College from the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, where he has served from 1991-1998 as Special Assistant to the Director, Director for Strategic Planning, and Assistant for International Affairs. From 1987 to 1991, Dr. Soofer worked in the United States Senate as Professional Staff Member for the Republican Policy Committee and as Senior Legislative Assistant and representative to the Armed Services Committee for Senator Slade Gorton. Rob received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1987, and is a graduate of the National War College, class of 1994. He is a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and has authored Missile Defenses and Western European Security (Greenwood Press, 1988).
E-Mail: sooferr@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1998
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Roy W. Stafford, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3707Dr. Roy W. Stafford is Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College, specializing in European security studies. Prior to his current position he was Dean of Faculty of the War College. Dr. Stafford was a career Air Force Officer who served as director of a special advisory staff for the Air Force Chief of Staff, as a defense analyst in the U.S. Mission to NATO, as a professor of political science at the Air Force Academy, and as an intelligence specialist. His recent publications include: "NATO and the New Europe," in Germany and the United States: Facing the Post-Communist World and "Western Europe and NATO," in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: A Geopolitical Perspective. Dr. Stafford is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and earned his Doctorate in International Politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
E-Mail: staffordr@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1992
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Charles A. Stevenson,
Ph.D.
Office telephone: (202) 685-3661Dr. Charles Stevenson is Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College. Prior to assuming his current post, he served 22 years at a staff member to four different Senators, working primarily on defense and foreign policy issues. His areas of academic specialization include national security policy making, Congress, the budget process, civil-military relations, and technology and military innovation. He has degrees from Harvard (AB and Ph.D.)and the Fletcher School (MA) and studied at King's College, London on a Fulbright Fellowship.
E-Mail: stevensonc@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1993
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Ronald L. Tammen, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-4510
E-Mail: tammenr@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: 1991
Dr. Ronald L. Tammen is the Chairman of the Department of National Security Policy at the National War College. He also has held the positions of Associate Dean of Faculty and Co-Director of the Regional Studies Program. In previous situations, Dr. Tammen was Chief of Staff to Senator William Proxmire and Managing Partner of a Washington based public relations firm. He has authored two books and numerous articles on US defense policy and grand strategy. His current research agenda involves emerging power relationships among the US, China, and India.
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Paul B. Thompson, CDR/USN
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3708Commander Paul B. Thompson is Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College specializing in national security law and ethics and the role and powers of the presidency. Prior to coming to the War College, Commander Thompson served as the senior legal advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and as Force Judge Advocate to the Commander, Naval Air Force, U. S. Atlantic Fleet. He also spent four years on the National Security Council staff and was formerly legislative counsel to the Secretary of Defense. He holds an LMT from Georgetown University and a JD from the University of Maryland.
E-Mail: thompsonp@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: July 1991
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LTC Robert M. Toguchi,
Ph.D.
Office telephone: (202) 685-3758LTC Robert M. Toguchi is currently a faculty member at the National War College. His previous assignments include three years on the Army Staff in the Pentagon, where he served in the War Plans Division and Strategy, Plans, and Policy Division; Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans. Field assignments throughout his career have included duty with the 24th Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Georgia; 7th Engineer Brigade, 7th U.S. Corps in Germany; and the 7th Infantry Division, Fort Ord, California. LTC Toguchi received a BS degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1980 and a Ph.D. in History from Duke University in 1994. He is also a resident graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His basic branch in the U.S. Army is the Corps of Engineers.
E-mail: toguchir@ndu.edu
Joined Faculty: 1 Aug 1999
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David A. Tretler, Ph.D.,
Col/USAF
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3663Colonel Tretler is a former Dean of Faculty at the National War College. His previous assignment was also as a faculty member. Former assignments include extensive operational and instructional duties in fighter and trainer aircraft. He taught at the United States Air Force Academy and received his Ph.D. from Rice University in History. His staff experience includes the Deputy Chief of Air Force History, action officer in the Doctrine Division, Directorate of Plans, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. His areas of expertise are joint culture, joint and combined operations, joint doctrine, classical military theory, military strategy and operations, and national security strategy.
E-Mail: tretlerd@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: June 1992
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Cynthia A. Watson, Ph.D.
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3712Cynthia Watson is Associate Dean for Academic Programs. Dr. Watson earned a BA from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, a MA from the London School of Economics, and a doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining the National War College, Dr. Watson was Assistant Dean for Social Sciences and taught in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. She has also taught Politics at Ithaca College. Additionally, Dr. Watson has worked for the U.S. General Accounting Office and U.S. House of Representatives. Dr. Watson is on the Governing Boards of a number of professional organizations and the Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly. Current research interests include civil-military relations in the Third World, with emphasis on Colombia and China.
E-Mail: watsonc@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1992
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Ambassador James A.
Williams
Office Telephone: (202) 685-4456Ambassador James A. Williams, a Foreign Service Officer who joined the Department of State in 1965, has served in Turkey (Ankara and Adana), Cyprus, Germany (Bonn and Berlin), and Greece. In Washington he has served in several geographic and functional bureaus of the Department. He has specialized in political reporting and management of large overseas missions (U.S. Mission Berlin and Embassy Athens). While serving as Special Coordinator for Cyprus in 1994-1996, he was awarded the title of Ambassador on nomination by the President and with advice and consent by the U.S. Senate. Ambassador Williams most recently served as Director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Personnel. He became International Affairs Advisor of the National War College in August 1999. Ambassador Williams speaks fluent German and Greek, and passable Turkish.
E-Mail: williamsja@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1999
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John Zielinski, Col/USAF
Office Telephone: (202) 685-3709Col John Zielinski is entering his fourth year as a NWC faculty member. He's a B-52 pilot with over 2,700 hours of flying time in B-52G and B-52H model aircraft. Col Zielinski has served in current operations on the Joint Staff, worked plans and programs on the Air Staff and developed acquisition program requirements at Strategic Air Command and Air Combat Command Headquarters. He is a 1988 National War College graduate who won the Air Force Association Best Strategy Paper Award. While assigned to the National War College, he has been the Associate Dean of Faculty for Academic Programs for two and half years and will become the College's Chief Information Officer effective 1 Nov 99.
E-Mail: zielinskij@ndu.edu
Joined the Faculty in: August 1996
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