Colonel Paul R. Murphy is the Alan Sheppard Professor of Air & Space Warfare and Senior Air Force Advisor to the President of the Naval War College. A graduate of Northeastern University, he has Masters Degrees from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, AF Institute of Technology, the College of Naval Command & Staff (Distinguished Graduate), and Air War College, and is a graduate of the USAF Advanced Study of Air Mobility (ASAM). A command pilot with 3,500 flying hours, he has held staff billets at Headquarters Air Force, USSTRATCOM and Air Mobility Command. He commanded the 305th Air Mobility Wing at McGuire AFB, and Vice Commander of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, Southwest Asia.