Faculty and Staff

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.

MS, Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense Univ.; MA Louisiana State Univ. U.S. Army (Ret.); Dean of Students, National Defense Univ. Professor and Department Chair, Military Science Department of the Univ. of Toledo. Joint Improvised – Threat Defeat Org, Headquarters Department of the Army Staff, Pentagon.

MA, Kings College London. CIA Special Intelligence Service, Directorate of Operations (Ret.). FiServ Head of Security Operations and Enterprise Business Continuity.

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.

Doctorate Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University. Professor, University of Nebraska Omaha; Senior Deterrence Analyst U.S. Department of the Air Force, U.S. Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base; Senior Deterrence Analyst Constellation West Company; Deterrence Analyst, National Institute of Public Policy

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.

DSS Doctoral Candidate, Missouri State Univ.; PhD Candidate, International Relations, Salve Regina Univ.; MA, U.S. Naval War College; Commander, U.S. Navy, (Ret.) Military Professor of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval War College, 2020-2023; NATO Operations Chief, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Europe/NATO Policy, 2017-2020. OSR. Program Mgr

PhD, International Relations, Univ. of Southern California. Director, Office of Missile Defense Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon (Ret.) CSIS Non-Resident Fellow; Consultant, OSD Policy.

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...

PhD, Philosophy and Political Science, 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).

PhD, International Relations, Univ. of Southern California. Director, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University (2004-10).

Doctorate DSS, MS DSS Weapons of Mass Destruction - Missouri State Univ., MA Liberal Arts, St. Johns College. Strategic Trends Research Manager, Defense Threat Reduction Agency; Program Analyst, Office of Defense Nuclear Non-proliferation, Dept. of Energy; Liaison Officer, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, Dept. of Homeland Security

Doctorate Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University. Major U.S. Army (Ret.); Chief of Operations, Defense Threat Reduction Agency Operations and Integration Directorate; Chief of Operations, Security Forces Assistance Brigade, U.S. Central Command.

DSS Doctoral Candidate, Missouri State Univ.; MA, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Space Force; Director of Space Strategy and Policy at Headquarters, US Space Force, Pentagon, 2022-present; National Security Studies Department Chair and Assistant Professor, National Defense University, Eisenhower School, 2018-2022.

PhD, Political Science, The George Washington University. Retired U.S. Army Reserve officer; duties mainly in special operations and intelligence. Former CIA analyst. Adjunct professor Georgetown University.

PhD, Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis. Professor of Political Science; Director of the Security Studies Program, Westminster College. Former Adjunct Instructor, Texas A&M University.

M.A. National Security and Strategic Studies, U.S. Naval War College; Adjunct Professor, Institute of World Politics; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; Praxis Consulting Group, CEO; Former Vice Chairman, John Hay Initiative Counter-Proliferation Group; Former House Military Legislative Assistant and Professional Staff, House Judiciary Committee.

DPhil Public Policy, George Washington Univ.; MS DSS, Missouri State Univ.; VP Corporate Strategy, Lockheed Martin; Former VP and CSO, QinetiQ North America; Former Dir. Def. and Special Programs, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Dept. of Energy; Former Deputy Asst Secretary for Crisis Management and Special Asst to the Asst. Sec. of Defense.

PhD, International Relations, 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.

PhD, Politis and International Relations, 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.

PhD, Political Science, Harvard University. Department of State, Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Arms Control; National Security Council Staff, Director for Proliferation Strategy.

PhD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Univ; Dean of Academics, Institute of World Politics. Professor, Command & Staff College, Marine Corps University, and School of International Service, American University.

Senior Research Fellow, National Defense University; Director, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Graduate Fellowship Program

PhD, International Affairs, 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.

MS, Joint Military Intelligence College/National Intelligence University. MAS, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Colonel, U.S.AF, (Ret.). Vice President & co-founder, National Institute for Deterrence Studies.

PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2020); MS Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University. School of International Studies John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, National Security Analysis Department (2013); American Enterprise Institute, Defense Policy Research (2012).

MS DSS Weapons of Mass Destruction, Missouri State Univ.; Committee Member, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; Adjunct Prof., Georgetown Univ., Dir. Ctr for Study Weapons of Mass Destruction, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Def. Univ.; Former Dir. for Proliferation Strategy, Dir. Intelligence Programs, NSC.

MA Law and Diplomacy, 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).

Doctoral Candidate, DSS, Missouri State Univ.; MS Aeronautical Science and Management, Embry Riddle Univ.; Adjunct Prof. of Nuclear Deterrence and Assurance, School of Strategic Force Studies, Air Force Institute of Tech.; Senior Fellow & Co-Founder, National Institute for Deterrence Studies...

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.

MA International Relations, 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.

PhD, International Relations, Tufts Univ.; U.S. Navy (Ret.); Council on Foreign Relations; former Assist. Dir. National Intelligence Mission Performance, Analysis and Collection, Dir. National Intelligence; former Sr. GEOINT Authority Collection, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency; former Dir. of Intelligence, NATO. Specialist Exec., Deloitte.

D.SL, Strategic Leadership, Regent University. Dr. Taylor provides national security and foreign policy expertise from an extensive combined career on Capitol Hill, in defense sub-contracting, academia, and as a United States congressional candidate.

MS Foreign Service, Georgetown Univ.; Deputy Under Secretary of Def. for Policy (2017-2019), Former House Armed Services Committee Professional Staff; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy (2001-2003); VP of CACI; the Honorable David Trachtenberg totals more than 40 years of public policy experience.

PhD, Experimental Particle Physics, Rice University, 1996; Doctoral Candidate, Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University; Physical Scientist, Defense Threat Reduction Agency; former Technical Nuclear Analyst and Senior WMD Scientist, Department of the Air Force; former Test Scientist, Department of Homeland Security.

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.