Author of several books including Insurgency and Terrorism, Dr. Bard E. O’Neill is a Professor of International Affairs and Director of Studies of Internal Warfare and Terrorismat the National War College. He has lectured extensively on the Middle East, insurgency, and terrorism and is a consultant to the U.S. State Department, Justice Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA and National Security Agency. He has appeared as a guest analyst on CBS, CNN, C-Span, the Asian News Network and National Public Radio.
Dr. O’Hanlon is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He has written numerous books on these topics. He also co-directs the Center on 21st Century Security and Intelligence there with retired General John Allen. He is also director of research for the Foreign Policy program at Brookins. O’Hanlon was a member of the external advisory board at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2011 to 2012.
Dr. O’Hanlon is a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, where he specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy. He has written numerous books on these topics. He also co-directs the Center on 21st Century Security and Intelligence there with retired General John Allen. He is also director of research for the Foreign Policy program at Brookins. O’Hanlon was a member of the external advisory board at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2011 to 2012.
Hans Kundnani is the Senior Transatlantic Fellow with the German Marshall Fund’s Europe Program in Washington D.C. He works on internal European economic and institutional issues and Europe’s role in the world. Prior to joining the German Marshall Fund, he was research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust and The Paradox of German Power.
Ambassador Christopher Hill is the dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Outpost: A Diplomat at Work and is also a monthly columnist for Project Syndicate. He is a highly sought public speaker and voice in the media on international affairs.
General George W. Casey, Jr. is one of the most accomplished soldiers in U.S. history and an authority on strategic and transformational leadership. As the 36th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from April 2007 to 2011, General Casey led what is arguably the world’s largest and most complex organization, 1.1 million people strong, with a $200+ billion annual budget, during one of the most extraordinary periods in military and global political history. He is widely credited with restoring balance to the war-weary U.S. Army and leading the transformation necessary to ensure the Army remained relevant in current conflicts. Prior to this post, General Casey commanded the MultiNational Force-Iraq, a coalition of more than 30 countries, where he guided the Iraq mission through its toughest days. He currently lectures on leadership at the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, at other business schools, and to the leaders of national and multinational corporations. He also lectures on International Relations at the Korbel School, University of Denver. He has published a book, Strategic Reflections, Operation Iraqi Freedom, July 2004-2007 (October 2012), about his experiences in Iraq, and several articles on leadership, including “Leading in a VUCA World”, Fortune Magazine (March 20, 2014).
Graeme Wood is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and lecturer in political science at Yale University. His first book, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State, has been called a “gripping, sobering and revelatory book” by New Statesman and “the best insight yet into what makes the Islamic State tick” by The Week. Wood has been a Turkey and Kurdistan analyst for Jane’s, a contributing editor to The New Republic, and books editor of Pacific Standard. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, and the International Herald Tribune. He was the 2016-2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Steve Recca is Executive Director of the Center for Human Security at the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs School of Public Affairs. He serves as the Co-Director of the University & Agency Partnership Initiative for the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for Homeland Defense and Security. He teaches Intelligence Specialization at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. His previous positions include security policy assignments with the Central Intelligence Agency, State Department, and Defense Department.
Richard Schwein Jr. has more than 31 years of government service as a U.S. Army Officer and FBI Special Agent. He was appointed to the FBI Senior Executive Service in 2011 and was detailed to the CIA Counterterrorism Center at Langley, Virginia as the Deputy Director for Law Enforcement. He was recognized for his service at the CIA with the prestigious CIA George H.W. Bush Medal for Excellence in Counterterrorism.
Dr. Lewis Griffith specialized in security studies in areas of weapons proliferation, humanitarian intervention, and the implications of globalization on the state security policies of non-Western states. He joined the faculty at Air Command and Staff College in 2003 where he served as a Course Director for the Strategy and Warfare Course and the Inter/National Security Course before being named Department Chair of the Joint Warfighting Department. In 2015, he was named the Director of the International Studies Program for the Josef Korbel School at the University of Denver.
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