Colonel (ret) Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, an author of four books and a PhD. Macgregor was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1976 after one year at the Virginia Military Institute and four years at West Point. Macgregor’s concepts from his groundbreaking books on transformation, Breaking the Phalanx (Praeger 1997) and Transformation under Fire(Praeger 2003) have profoundly influenced thinking about transformation inside America’s ground forces, NATO the Israeli Defense Force and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. His books are available in Chinese and Hebrew. Macgregor is widely recognized as an expert on organizational design and grand strategy. He is also a frequent radio and television commentator on national security affairs.

Ed Judd is a conflict anthropologist from the Australian National University. His interest is in the causes of insurgency and civil war and the institutional and strategic responses to the risk of war. He has performed research in West Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East and has contributed to parliamentary submissions, the Australian Defence Force Journal and Auspol.

EJ Hogendoorn is the Horn of Africa Project Director at the International Crisis Group.

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.

Erich G. Simmers is an Alumni Fellow at the University of Florida where he is a civilian researcher in postcolonial studies and cultural criticism.  He is the author of Weaponized Culture, a blog on technology, culture, and war and is currently writing a dissertation on the representations of T. E. Lawrence in American counterinsurgency doctrine and contemporary pop culture.

Frank Hoffman is a research fellow at National Defense University and a frequent contributor to The Small Wars Journal.    This essay is the author’s own conclusions and does not represent the views of the Department of Defense or the National War College.

Major Gabriel C. Lajeunesse, U.S. Air Force, is a career Special Agent and Middle East / North Africa Area Specialist with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) where his work has focused on counterintelligence and counterterrorism. He has served as commander of AFOSI Detachment 113, Hill AFB, Utah, and Expeditionary Detachment 2409, Tallil Air Base, Iraq. He currently serves as a Political Military Planner on the Iran-Levant Policy Division, Directorate for Plans and Policy (J-5), Joint Staff. The views reflected herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Defense or its components. 

LT Garrett Ryan Wood is a Naval Gunfire Liason Officer at 5th Anglico in Okinawa who served an OIF deployment aboard a DDG in 2009 and recently completed a deployment to OEF.  He  graduated with majors in History and Political Economy from Hillsdale College.

Gary Anderson is a retired Marine Corps Colonel who served as a Special Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of Defense on Counterinsurgency from 2003-05. He served on an embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq in 2009-10, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Relations.

Dr. Gary K. Busch has had a varied career-as an international trades unionist, an academic, a businessman and a political intelligence consultant. He was a professor and Head of Department at the University of Hawaii and has been a visiting professor at several universities. He was the head of research in international affairs for a major U.S. trade union and Assistant General Secretary of an international union federation. His articles have appeared in the Economist Intelligence Unit, Wall Street Journal, WPROST, Pravda and several other news journals. He is the editor and publisher of the web-based news journal of international relations www.ocnus.net.

General Robert Cone is a senior Army leader with substantial experience at all levels from platoon through corps.  He has held numerous Joint and Multinational positions throughout his career, most recently serving as III Corps Commander and as Deputy Commanding General - Operations for U.S. Forces – Iraq.  Prior to that, he served as Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan.

General Cone commands the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). At TRADOC, he is responsible for training and educating Army Soldiers, Leaders and Civilians; developing and implementing concepts and doctrine; and designing and integrating capabilities development for the Army.

He holds master’s degrees in Sociology from the University of Texas, Austin, and in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

Professor Gene C. Kamena currently teaches Leadership and Ethics at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. He is retired from the Army as a Colonel of Infantry. He holds a B.A. in History from Auburn University and a Masters Degree in Military Art and Science from CGSC at Fort Leavenworth. He graduated from the Army War College in 1998 and Commanded the 2^nd Brigade, 1AD. He also served as the Chief of Staff for the 1^st Infantry Division, Director of Staff of U.S. Space Command and the Deputy Chief of Staff for U.S. Northern Command, Director for Iraqi Security Forces and formed and led an Iraqi Special Border Commando Brigade on the Syrian border. His operational deployments include; Desert Shield Desert Storm, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Iraq (OIF.)

Award-winning historian, associate professor of history, and director of the military history program at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Author of How Effective is Strategic Bombing? Lessons Learned from World War II to Kosovo. A serving Army Colonel, commanded a combat battalion in West Baghdad in 2006. Currently working on a study on four sets of generals in counterinsurgency as a visiting fellow at the Council for Foreign Relations.

Huba Wass de Czege is a retired U.S. Army brigadier general. During his career as an infantry officer, he served two tours in Vietnam and gained staff experience at all levels up to assistant division commander. General Wass De Czege was a principal designer of the operational concept known as AirLand Battle. He also was the founder and first director of the Army's School for Advanced Military Studies where he also taught applied military strategy. After retiring in 1993, General Wass De Czege became heavily involved in the Army After Next Project and served on several Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency v advisory panels. He is a 1964 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and holds an MPA from Harvard University.