29 year veteran of the Marine Corps with 25 years as a military intelligence officer serving at the tactical, joint operational, and national strategic levels. Participant in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the drug wars in South America in the early 1990s, and two major humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations, one as the Director of Intelligence. Authored book chapters on WWII urban warfare and information operations in Vietnam within two military history anthologies and numerous articles on tactics, command and control, and military judgment in professional journals and commercial publications.