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Authors List

Khirin A. Bunker (1)
The DEF2013 Board (1)
Jill S. Russell (2)
Mark Phillips (1)
Johnny Lairsey (1)
Arnold Hammari (1)
TJ Waters (1)
Robert Almonte (1)
Carol E. B. Choksy (1)
Jamsheed K. Choksy (1)
Jerry Meyerle (1)
LtGen Robert B. Neller (1)
Jason B. Nicholson (1)
Joseph Trevithick (1)
Brian Woolworth (1)
LtGen Robert B. Neller (1)
Kevin Brown (1)
John A. Bertetto (1)
Keith Nightingale (2)
Karen J. Dill (1)
R. Chandler Swallow (1)
Stephen Tucker (1)
Audrey Kurth Cronin (1)
Nathan P. Jones (3)
Joshua S. Jones (1)
J. Michael Barrett (1)
MG Jeff W. Mathis III (1)
Somdeep Sen and Salem B.S. Dandan (1)
David C. Eckley (1)
David L. Wilcox (1)
Matthew Hipple (2)
Butch Bracknell (2)
Charles G. Kels (2)
Johnny Lairsey (1)
Inge Fryklund (1)
Sterling Jensen (1)
Robert Sharp (1)
Gabriel Lajeunesse (1)
Jeffrey Payne and Chris Chapman (1)
Don Gomez (1)
Paul Rexton Kan (1)
Matthew Schweitzer (1)
A.A. Cohen (1)
Joan Johnson-Freese (1)
Adam Jungdahl (1)
David Kuhn (1)
Adam Geibel (2)
Stan Coerr (1)
Douglas Macgregor (1)
GEN Robert W. Cone (1)
Michael Christman (1)
Anonymous Fighter Pilot (1)
Gary K. Busch (1)
Charles A. Flynn (1)
Chris Davis (1)
David Wise (1)
Pascale Combelles Siegel (1)
Dan Cox (1)
Paul Smyth (1)
Michael L. Burgoyne (1)
Peter J. Munson (95)
William Anderson (1)
Ali Hayat (1)
Sven Ortmann (1)
Dave Duffy (1)
Michael Martinez (1)
Bob Weimann (1)
Robert Tollast (1)
Donald "Ray" Greene (1)
Ryan T. Kranc (1)
Robert C. Jones (2)
Adam Elkus (5)
Tristan Hoffmann (1)
Jason Howk (1)
Philipp Reichert (1)
James Moran (1)
Daniel R. DePetris (2)
Sid Heal (1)
Paul Olsen (2)
Doctrine Man (1)
Gene C. Kamena (1)
Roy F. Houchin II (1)
Barry M. Stentiford (1)
Philip Ulrich (1)
David Kuhn (5)
Brandt Smith (1)
Ed Judd (1)
David Abel (1)
Peter Van Buren (1)
Matthew Irvine (1)
Alejandro M. Sueldo (3)
Matthew Partridge (1)
Don Gomez (1)
Teun van Dongen (2)
Nic Jenzen-Jones (2)
Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong (2)
Erich Simmers (1)
Michael Murray (2)
Robert Farley (1)
Patrick McKinney (1)
Avinash Paliwal (1)
Morgan Smiley (1)
Garrett Wood (3)
Brock Dahl (1)
Nathan Springer (1)
Ryan Kennedy (1)
Andrew Shaver (2)
JR Hand (1)
EJ Hogendoorn (1)
Diane Maye (1)
Michael Yon (4)
David S. Maxwell (11)
Gian Gentile (5)
Robert Bunker (76)
Bill Caldwell (10)
Gary Anderson (5)
Youssef Aboul-Enein (22)
Crispin Burke (23)
Dr. Jack (5)
Mike Few (63)
SWJ Editors (3325)
Robert Haddick (342)
Bing West (22)
Robert Bateman (13)
Bill Nagle (4)
Octavian Manea (2)
Jonathan Morgenstein (1)
Niel Smith (9)
Marc Tyrrell (7)
Martin Dempsey (9)
Dave Kilcullen (15)
Janine Davidson (4)
John Nagl (17)
Ken White (2)
Frank Hoffman (15)
Paul Yingling (5)
TX Hammes (1)
Eric Walters (3)
Bob Killebrew (2)
Huba Wass de Czege (2)
John P. Sullivan (8)
Rob Thornton (2)
Jim Guirard (10)
Malcolm Nance (7)
Pete Mansoor (1)
William McCallister (8)
Dave Dilegge (1057)
Josh Manchester (3)
Ken White (1)
Bruce Gudmundsson (2)

Author Bios

Khirin A. Bunker

Khirin A. Bunker is in the political science honors program at the University of California Riverside and is a co-founder and a Director of the Political Science Society. He has interned at the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy and holds an International Baccalaureate (IB) degree. He supports SWJ-El Centro anthology book production and is presently researching refugee and depopulation of village issues related to the criminal insurgencies in Mexico.

The DEF2013 Board

The Defense Entrepreneurs’ Forum 2013 Board is made up of junior officers from across the services of the US Armed Forces who came together through social media based on a shared passion for innovation and continuous improvement. You can follow them on Twitter @DEFConference. LT Ben Kohlmann, USN – Founder of Disruptive Thinkers, F/A-18 pilot and member of the CNO’s Rapid Innovation Cell Maj Mark Jacobsen, USAF – C-17 Pilot, Middle East Specialist, Author, Programmer Capt Jeff Gilmore, USAF – C-17 Pilot, AMC eFlight Bag Program, co-founder MilitaryLounge Maj Jason Wilbur, USAF – C-17 Pilot, CEO and Co-founder of MilitaryLounge MAJ Nathan Finney, USA – US Army Harvard Strategist Fellow, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Strategy Development Capt Anthony Hatala, USMC – AV-8B Harrier Pilot, C-130 Harvest HAWK Operator, Founder Military Traveler Capt Roxanne Bras, USA – Rhodes Scholar, Completing Civil Affairs Qualification Course LCDR Micah Murphy, USN – Former Commanding Officer, USS EXULTANT, Executive Assistant to the Navy Chief of Legislative Affairs Mike Christman – Marine AH-1W Cobra pilot, Forward Air Controller, Developer "Combat iPad" Map Reader Jeff Stine – Former Infantry Officer, MBA in Analytic Finance, Economics and Entrepreneurship, Co-Chair of Chicago Booth Armed Forces Group

Jill S. Russell

Jill S. Russell is a military historian. Her primary area of expertise is the contemporary American armed forces and the conflicts which have shaped this history. She has worked as a defense consultant, serves as an editor of H-War, and is currently at King's College London working to finish a dissertation on the history of subsistence and logistics in American military history.

Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips, PMP is a project management theorist and independent consultant in the defense industry with over 15 years experience managing leading edge technology projects. He has presented original research at conferences and webinars held by NDIA, PMI and the College of Performance Management. The opinions expressed are his own and do not reflect those of his clients or affiliated organizations. The examples used are purely for illustration and hypothetical. Any similarity with real programs is coincidental.
 

Johnny Lairsey

Mr. Johnny Lairsey is DA Civilian serving as a Plans Specialist at US Army North, the Army Service Component Command to US Northern Command. US Army North missions include Homeland Defense, Theater Security Cooperation and Defense Support to Civil Authorities. Johnny is a graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies and he has over five years of experience as a plans specialist in an operational headquarters and has extensive experience working with other US Government agencies. The views expressed in this report are those of the Author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.

Arnold Hammari

MAJ Arnold Hammari is a US Army Sub-Saharan Africa Foreign Area Officer currently posted to US Embassy Chad.  He was previously posted at US Embassy Senegal and follows regional security issues in the Sahel and throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.

TJ Waters

TJ Waters spent four years as a co-team chief at U.S. Special Operations Command Headquarters.  Prior to this he was a Senior Counterintelligence Analyst for USCENTCOM and an Intelligence Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency after a successful corporate career. His CIA memoir CLASS 11 was published by Penguin Putnam and remains # 2 on the CIA’s list of recommended reading for new employees.  His two other nonfiction books on intelligence, HYPERFORMANCE and PRIOR TO THE SNAP, are popular with military and academic readers.  He has appeared on Fox News and TraderNation, and quoted in The USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.  He resides in St Petersburg, Florida.

Robert Almonte

Robert R. Almonte is a United States Marsha in the Western District of Texas. He has over 25 years in law enforcement with the El Paso Police Department, with most of his career spent on the front lines of the drug war. Marshal Almonte has extensive field research conducted at narco-shrines in both Mexico and the United States, personal interviews of those involved in the honoring of legitimate and worship of illegitimate saints related to the drug trade and other criminal activities, and provides ongoing consultation with members of U.S. law enforcement throughout the country concerning recent narcotics cases.

Carol E. B. Choksy

Carol E. B. Choksy is adjunct lecturer in Strategic Intelligence and Information Management at Indiana University. She also is CEO of IRAD Strategic Consulting.

Jamsheed K. Choksy

Jamsheed K. Choksy is professor of Iranian, Central Eurasian, and International studies at Indiana University. He also is a member of the National Council on the Humanities at the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities.

Jerry Meyerle

Jerry Meyerle is a senior political scientist in the Center for Strategic Studies at CNA. He is the author of a number of articles and research monographs on irregular warfare and South Asia security issues, including the book On the Ground in Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency in Practice (Marine Corps University Press, 2012). He has served on Afghanistan and Pakistan policy reviews in Washington and as an advisor to the commander of the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team in eastern Afghanistan where he worked on Pakistan border issues. He has also served as an advisor to the commanding general of II Marine Expeditionary Force Forward in southern Afghanistan. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science and South Asian Studies from the University of Virginia.

LtGen Robert B. Neller

LtGen Neller is the Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command.

Jason B. Nicholson

LTC Jason Nicholson is a US Army Sub-Saharan Africa Foreign Area Officer currently posted to US Embassy Uganda. His previous posts include US Embassy Tanzania, the Army Staff, and the Joint Staff. He particularly follows stories showing connections between the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Joseph Trevithick

Joseph Trevithick is a research associate for GlobalSecurity.org and also works as a historical consultant and freelance writer. He has written works dealing with military history and policy and has been interviewed on defense and security issues on television and in print.  He is currently working on a project dealing with the history of the High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicle.

Brian Woolworth

LTC Brian Woolworth is a Latin America Foreign Area Officer, currently serving as the Mexico Engagement Chief for US Army North.  His assignments include the 82nd Airborne Division and the 7th Special Forces Group, including service in Afghanistan, Colombia, Chile, Panama, Korea, Argentina, and Haiti.