Rick Newton

Richard D. Newton, PhD, is currently serving as an irregular warfare and airpower planner for Special Operations Command Europe and as adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is a retired USAF special operations and combat rescue helicopter pilot and combat aviation advisor. “Newt” also serves as the Director of the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Air and Space Power project, and as a senior nonresident fellow for the Homeland Defense Institute and the Global National Security Institute. His research interests include Russia as a strategic adversary, irregular / hybrid / gray-zone conflict, airpower, special operations, and Arctic security.