Robert R. Tomes is Adjunct Professor of Security Policy Studies at The George Washington University and serves on the board of the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA). He is a Director of Strategy and Plans at BAE Systems, Inc. Dr. Tomes is the author of U.S. Defense Strategy from Vietnam to Operation Iraqi Freedom: Military Innovation the American Way of War, 1973-2003 (Routledge, 2007) and was a contributing editor of Crossroads Africa: Perspectives on US-China-Africa Security Affairs (CENSA, 2009) and Hybrid Warfare and Transnational Threats (CENSA, 2011).  His work has appeared in Armed Forces & Society, Policy Review, Defence Studies, Smalls Wars & Insurgencies, Parameters, Military Review, and The Naval War College Review.