Professor Charbonneau is a professor of National Security Affairs (NSA) at the College of Distance Education. He joined the NSA resident faculty in 2009 and taught security strategies, with a focus on central command, national security strategies and the Middle East. He retired from the United States Air Force in 2012. He supported the Office of Security Cooperation-Iraq from 2012 to 2013 as the Raytheon Team Lead for Professional Military Education and as a senior advisor to the Iraqi National Security Advisor’s Al Nahrain Center for Strategic Studies, working closely with OSC-I leadership, Iraqi senior leaders, UN Development Programme personnel, and the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.