Ambassadors. Defense policy analysts. Intelligence officers. Former military. Industry
experts.
These are the people who teach your classes.
Our faculty have worked and continue to work in vital roles: Departments of Defense,
State and Homeland Security, Capitol Hill, intelligence agencies and more.
Faculty
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PhD, University of Southern California. Brigadier General, U.S. Army (ret.); Director,
George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany;
Director of Requirements, U.S. Army, Pentagon.
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PhD, International Relations, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; President of
The Institute of World Politics; Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Marine
Corps University; Dean of Academics at the Marine Corps War College.
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JD, American University. Vice President for Policy, American Foreign Policy Council;
Editor, Journal of International Security Affairs; Adjunct Professor, National Defense
University, Ft. Leslie McNair (DC); Adjunct Professor, American University.
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JD, Cornell Law School. Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Technology Security Policy
and Counterproliferation Policy; Director, Defense Technology Administration; Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense, European and NATO Policy.
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Doctor of Public Health, Uniformed Services University. Associate Professor of Public
Health and Homeland Security; Assistant Professor, Dept. of Preventive Medicine and
Biometry, US Navy Entomologist, Environmental & Preventive Medicine Unit #7, Italy.
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PhD, University of Southern California. Director, Office of Missile Defense Policy,
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon (2000-Present).
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U.S. Ambassador, Special envoy for Six-Party Talks with North Korea; US Representative
to the Korea Energy Development Organization; Associate Director of National Intelligence
and Director of National Counter Proliferation Center.
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PhD, George Mason University. U.S. Senate professional staff, Senate Armed Services
Committee; Heritage Foundation; Research Fellow, International Institute for Political
Science, Masaryk University (Czech Republic).
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PhD, Columbia University. Senior Advisor, Executive Communications, Eli Lilly and
Company; Senior Director, Global Oncology Corporate Affairs, Eli Lilly and Company,
Vice President & CEO, Hudson Institute; Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency.
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PhD, Univ. of Southern California. Served 26 years at the U.S. Department of State
in positions including Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning, Bureau of International
Security and Nonproliferation; Chief, Division of Strategy and Policy Studies.
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PhD, University of Reading. Professor, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, Maxwell
Air Force Base; Strategy, Concepts and Initiatives Team, Office of the Secretary of
Defense, Pentagon.
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PhD, Harvard University. Department of State, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary
for Arms Control; National Security Council Staff, Director for Proliferation Strategy.
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PhD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Dean of Academics, Institute of World Politics.
Professor, Command & Staff College, Marine Corps University, and School of International
Service, American University.
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Senior Research Fellow, National Defense University; Director, Countering Weapons
of Mass Destruction Graduate Fellowship Program
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PhD, George Mason University. Assistant Director, Government Accountability Office
(GAO), Defense Capabilities and Management Team, supporting Congress, the Office of
the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, Department of Homeland Security.
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Colonel, USAF, Retired. MS, Joint Military Intelligence College/National Intelligence
University. MAS, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Vice President & co-founder,
National Institute for Deterrence Studies.
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PhD, Nanyang Technological University, School of International Studies, Singapore
(2020); John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, National Security Analysis
Department (2013); American Enterprise Institute, Defense Policy Research (2012).
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MS, Tufts University. Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction
(2014-present); Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Biological
Policy Staff, Department of State (2016).
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PhD, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Research Fellow, Center
for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Defense University; German
Council on Foreign Relations, Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, Berlin, Germany.
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PhD, Univ. of Southern California. Senior Advisor, Office of the Secretary of Defense;
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Forces Policy; Chairman, US Strategic Command’s
Senior Advisory Group, Strategy Policy Panel; Faculty, Georgetown University.
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MA, Johns Hopkins University. CIA (28 years) handling national security issues, ranging
from assessing Soviet strategic nuclear forces, collapse of the Soviet Union to Islamic
terrorism; Consultant, Director of National Intelligence.
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Nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to serve as Deputy Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy, where he served until July 2019, the Honorable David Trachtenberg
totals more than 40 years of public policy experience.
Other per course faculty
Dr. Richard Downie
PhD, University of Southern California. Director, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies,
National Defense University (2004 – 2010); Director, Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), Columbus, GA (2001-2004); Defense and Army Attache’,
U.S. Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico (1999-2001); Operations Officer, Multinational Peacekeeping
Unit, Sarajevo, Bosnia (1998); Chief of Politico-Military Affairs for North America,
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (J-5), Washington, DC (1996-1998); Chief of Policy and
Strategy, U.S. Southern Command, Panama (1993-1995).
Dr. Tobias Gibson
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. John Langton Professor of Legal Studies
and Political Science; founding Director of the Security Studies Program, Westminster
College. Former Adjunct Professor, Texas A&M University.
A professional academic, Dr. Gibson’s research and teaching focus on executive power,
national security institutions, national security law, and terrorism. Previously,
he was a Regular Contributor to TheHill.com; Texas A&M Online Homeland Security Certificate
Program, Instructor and Subject Matter Expert; and National Security Network Non-Resident
Fellow. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Contextualizing Security: A Reader, University of Georgia Press. His recent work has also appeared in several books,
including: Sustainable Planet: Issues and Solutions for our Environment’s Future; Environmental Security: Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies; Homeland Security: Foundations in Law and Policy, 2nd ed.; and The Guide to the Study of Intelligence.
Dr. Petr Suchy
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, Faculty of Social Studies Department Head,
Department of International Relations & European Studies, 2006-Present.
Staff
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Scholarship Coordinator; Senior Student and Staff Coordinator.
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Doctoral Program Coordinator; Finance and Accounting Coordinator.
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Ft. Leonard Wood CBRN Officer Advanced Course Program Coordinator; Social Media Coordinator.
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Senior Staff Coordinator; Department Master’s Degree and Certificate Program Coordinator.