Professional Highlights
Professor of Strategy, Naval War College
Associate professor, 2007-2012; full professor, 2017-present. Visiting professor of national security affairs, 2016.
Faculty, University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs, Athens, GA
Taught undergraduate international relations in Honors Program and arms control at School of Public and International Affairs; research into nonproliferation, maritime counterproliferation, and export controls. Faculty Associate, 2007-present.
Staff Columnist, Athens (Ga.) Banner-Herald, Athens, GA
Biweekly column on foreign and defense affairs.
Research Associate, Institute for Foreign Policy, Cambridge, MA
Research into European and Middle East defense affairs; contributing editor to quarterly series of reports titled "Security Issues in the Middle East" in conjunction with ESAI Inc., Wakefield, MA.
Surface Warfare Officer, U.S. Navy
Repair officer and gunnery officer, USS WISCONSIN (BB-64); steam engineering and damage control instructor, Surface Warfare Officers School Command, Newport, RI; military professor of strategy, Naval War College, Newport, RI.
Education
Ph.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, International Relations
M.A., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Law and Diplomacy
M.A., Providence College, Mathematics
Diploma, Naval War College, National Security and Strategic Studies
M.A., Salve Regina University, International Relations
B.A., Vanderbilt University, Mathematics and German, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa
C.V. or Resume
Related Credentials
U.S. Navy Master Training Specialist
Research Contributions and Publications
A Brief Guide to Maritime Strategy
Naval Institute Press
2020
Red Star over the Pacific, 2nd ed.
Naval Institute Press
2018
Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age
Georgetown University Press
2012
Defending the Strait: Taiwan's Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
Brookings Institution Press/Jamestown Foundation
2011
Red Star over the Pacific
Naval Institute Press
2010
Paperback 2013
Indian Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
Routledge
2009
Paperback 2010
Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan
Routledge
2008
Paperback 2009
Asia Looks Seaward
Praeger
2007
Nuclear Security Culture
NATO Security through Science Series/IOS Press
2007
Theodore Roosevelt and World Order
Potomac/University of Nebraska Press
2006
Paperback 2007
Nuclear Security Culture: The Case of Russia
University of Georgia Center for International Trade and Security
2004
Awards and Decorations
Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal
2016
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
1996
Navy Achievement Medal
1994
Naval War College Foundation Award
1994
City of Newport Award
1994
Top Snipe Award
1994
Officer Engineering Instructor of the Year, Surface Warfare Officers School Command
1993-1994
Navy Commendation Medal
1991
Combat Action Ribbon
1991
Other Honors
Van Beuren Distinguished Visiting Fellow
University of Georgia, 2016
Hugh G. Nott Prize
Naval War College Review, 2008
Hugh G. Nott Prize
Naval War College Review, 2005
Carnegie Scholars nominee
University of Georgia, 2004
International Security Studies Dissertation Fellowship
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1998-2003
Earhart Fellow
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, 1998-1999
A. Eiken Hohenberg Scholar
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1996-1998
U.S. Naval Institute Award
Vanderbilt University, 1987
External Memberships and Associations
Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics honorary
1997-present
Naval War College Foundation
1994-present
USS Wisconsin Association
1991-present
Phi Beta Kappa
1987-present