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Phil M. Haun, Ph.D.

Professor Strategic and Operational Research Department
Col., U.S. Air Force, Retired
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Biography

Phil Haun joined the Naval War College faculty in 2016. He received his A.B. from Harvard and Ph.D. in political science from MIT. He previously served as a USAF Colonel and A-10 pilot. His research is on coercion, deterrence, and air power theory. His publications include several books: A-10s Over Kosovo, Coercion, Survival & War, Lectures of the Air Corps Tactical School and American Strategic Bombing in World War II, Air Power in the Age of Primacy, and Tactical Air Power and the Vietnam War. His latest research is for an upcoming book, Intending to Fail: How and Why States Coerce Insincerely.

Contact Information

(401) 856-6047

Areas of Expertise

  • Aerospace
  • Air Defense
  • Air Warfare
  • Deterrence
  • Foreign Policy
  • International Relations
  • Military Theory
  • National Security
  • Operational Warfare
  • Vietnam War
  • WWII

Professional Highlights

2016

Dean of Academics, U.S. Naval War College

2014

Professor of Aerospace Studies, Yale University

2009

Senior Air Force Advisor, U.S. Naval War College

Education

Ph.D., MIT, International Relations

M.A., Vanderbilt University, Economics

A.B., Harvard University, Engineering Science

C.V. or Resume

Related Credentials

National Security Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

School of Advanced Air and Space Power Studies, Maxwell AFB, AL

U.S. Fighter Weapons School, Nellis AFB, NV

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