Richard Anthony Moss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Strategic and Operational Research Department
Biography
Richard A. Moss is an associate professor in the Russian Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College's Center for Naval Warfare Studies. His current research projects focus on the maritime dimension of Russia’s Syria intervention. He also specializes in the U.S.-Soviet relationship during the Cold War and is an expert on the Nixon presidential recordings. Professor Moss previously served as a government and contract military capabilities analyst with the Department of Defense and as an historian with the Department of State. The University Press of Kentucky published his book, “Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow: Confidential Diplomacy and Detente” in January 2017.
Contact Information
Areas of Expertise
- A2/AD
- Cold War
- Diplomacy
- Europe
- Intel
- Middle East
- Russia
- Wargaming
- Weapon Systems
- WMD
Professional Highlights
Holloway Advanced Research Group
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., George Washington University, 2009, History
M.Phil, George Washington University, 2007, History
B.A., University of California Santa Barbara, 1999, History
External Memberships and Associations
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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