Shawn Burns is an Assistant Research Professor in the War Gaming Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies. Professor Burns has served at NWC since 2004. His NWC duties have included service as a military professor in the National Security Decision Making department, professor in the College Of Distance Education’s web-based Joint Military Operations course, operations analyst in the College of Operational And Strategic Leadership’s Assist and Assess Team, and currently as professor in the War Gaming Department.
Professor Burns is also a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and served as a CH-53E helicopter pilot, completing shipboard deployments with the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 22nd and 24th Marine Expeditionary Units, and the Second Air/Naval Gunfire Liaison Company.
Professor Burns has participated in several war games including the CNO’s Global games, OPNAV N-81’s Force Design Workshop game, and Pacific Fleet’s Navy-wide Standardized Task Force command and control game, and the Inter-American War Game series. Additionally he has traveled the Chilean, Uruguayan, and Azerbaijani naval war college to share war gaming techniques.