Defense Analysis Department Chair,  Dr. Michael E. Freeman

Dr. Carter Malkasian, Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA

Michael Freeman is a professor in the Department of Defense Analysis. He is the author of Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror (Praeger, 2003), the editor of Financing Terrorism: Case Studies (Ashgate 2012), the author of The Global Spread of Salafism (University of Nebraska, 2021), as well as the author of several journal articles and book chapters on terrorism, emergency powers, and terrorist financing. He is also the designer of nine online, “serious” games on terrorism and counterterrorism. In 2014, he was the recipient of NPS’s Hamming Award in recognition of his excellence in teaching and engagement with students. While at NPS, he was Chair of the Faculty Council (2017), Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs (2018-2021), and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (2021-2022).

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John Arquilla
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Expertise: Military organizations and technological change, conflict in the information age, and strategic design
Ph.D., in Political Science, Stanford University,
jarquilla@nps.edu
John Arquilla earned his doctorate at Stanford University. He is one of the co-founders of the Defense Analysis program at NPS, and was department head from 2011-2019. Dr. Arquilla is best known for having coined the term "cyberwar," and for introducing and initially developing the concept of swarm tactics. PUBLICATIONS Principal contributions include: In Athena's Camp (1997) Networks and Netwars (2001) The Reagan Imprint (2006) Worst Enemy (2008) Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits (2011) Afghan Endgames (2012) Why the Axis Lost (2020) Bitskrieg (2021) WIKIPEDIA PAGE 

Sally Baho
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: WPS; Inter- and Cross-Cultural Communication; Interagency Collaboration; Social Psychology
M.A., Food Studies, University of the Pacific, 2020
smbaho@nps.edu
831-760-1199
Mrs. Sally Baho joined the Naval Postgraduate School in 2011 as a Research Assistant in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, now the Department of Defense Management. In 2019 she moved to the Defense Analysis department in the Graduate School of Operations and Information Science to join the Global ECCO team. She has served as a copyeditor for the Combatting Terrorism eXchange (CTX) Journal, a quarterly journal which is part of Global ECCO. She is also a game-facilitator for the serious games that the global ECCO team manages and delivers in support of the Regional Defense Fellowship Program. She also manages the SOUTHCOM portfolio of courses for the CORE Lab. She has supported research on strategic communication and organizational behavior per Navy-sponsored research agendas each year. She has played an active role on projects ranging from Social Media usage among young sailors in the Navy to Middle Manager Support for Strategic Change. In addition to her support of academic research, she has worked with the former Partnership for Peace office in developing curricula for the Women, Peace, and Security workshop on the integration of women in Peacekeeping Operations with the United Nations. The workshop has been executed—first, with her assistance and now her management—over a dozen times in seven Latin American nations, with future events planned. Mrs. Baho received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California, San Diego and a Master of Arts in in Food Studies from the University of the Pacific in 2020. She is fluent in Levantine Arabic and Spanish. PUBLICATIONS Gibbons, D. E. & Baho, S. M. (2016). Women as UN Peacekeepers and Peacemakers. Naval Postgraduate School: Monterey, CA. Thomas, G.F., Neff, J., Stephens, K., & Baho, S. (2017). Gaining Middle Managers’ Support for Strategic Change: Literature Review. Naval Postgraduate School: Monterey, CA. Gibbons, D.E. &. Baho, S.M. (2020). Building Skills to Integrate, Protect, and Empower Women During Peacekeeping. Journal of Business Diversity, 20:4, 113-125. Thomas, G.F.; Gibbons, D.E.; & Baho, S.M. (2022) Prevention is Better than the Cure: The Development of Gray-Zone Situational Judgment Tests to Deter Sex and Gender Discrimination, Military Behavioral Health, 10:4, 368-378, DOI: 10.1080/21635781.2022.2026848 LANGUAGES  Native: English and Levantine Arabic (speaking); fluent in Spanish 

Kathleen Bailey
Faculty Associate-Research
Expertise: Public Policy, Environmental Policy, Public Administration, National Security Affairs
Ph.D., Public Affairs, 2023
ksbailey@nps.edu
Ms. Bailey joined the Naval Postgraduate School in 2004 as a Research Associate in the Defense Resources Management Institute (DRMI), transitioning to a Faculty Associate-Research position in 2014. In 2022 she moved into her current role supporting the Global ECCO team in the Defense Analysis Department. She has been involved predominantly with the Regional Defense Fellowship Program (RDFP) evaluation team but has also been assisting with the Combatting Terrorism eXchange (CTX) Journal and ECCO game facilitation. Beyond her RDFP program evaluation work, she has recently supported research to measure Navy personnel's perceptions of messages related to help-seeking for drugs, alcohol misuse, and mental health issues and the framing effects of stigma on the willingness to seek help for addiction or mental health issues; research related to Women, Peace, and Security (WPS); and improving the Navy performance management system, specifically fitness reports (FITREPs) and evaluations (EVALs). Ms. Bailey received a BA in English and Environmental Studies from Alfred University in 2001, an MA in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (now the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey) in 2005, and an MA in Security Studies: Western Hemisphere from the Naval Postgraduate School in 2011. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver. Her dissertation examines policy conflicts surrounding hydraulic fracturing in Colorado. In addition to her Global ECCO work and doctoral studies, Ms. Bailey is currently serving as the Mayor Pro Tem for the Town of Mountain View, Colorado. PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Publications: Bailey, Kathleen S., Hungtao Yi, Tanya Heikkila, and Christopher M. Weible. 2023. “Policy Conflicts in Shale Development in China and the United States.” Review of Policy Research, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12534 Bailey, Kathleen, and Robert M. McNab. 2008. “The Washington Consensus and Latin America’s Left Turn: Has U.S. National Security Suffered as a Result?” Security and Defense Studies Review 8 (1): 1-21. McNab, Robert M., and Kathleen Bailey. 2007. “Latin America and the Debate Over Environmental Protection and National Security.” Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) Journal 29 (4): 18-34. Non-Referred Technical Report: Bailey, Kathleen. 2014. “Working in the Same Space.” The Collaborative & Adaptive Security Initiative, Naval Postgraduate School. Report on the Working in the Same Space Workshop, United States Southern Command, Miami, Florida, September 10-12, 2013.

Leo Blanken
Associate Professor
Expertise: Strategic Competition, Innovation, Defense Economics
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Davis, 2006
ljblanke@nps.edu
Leo Blanken is the academic lead for the “Applied Design for Innovation” masters curriculum. He has authored work on strategic competition among great powers, innovation, defense economics, and assessment. Leo collects and DJs rare soul and funk records from the 1960s. PUBLICATIONS Author of Rational Empires: Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion (University of Chicago Press) Co-editor of Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure (Georgetown University Press) Leo Blanken and Cecilia Panella. 2023. “Why Fashion Matters in an Era of Strategic Competition,”Inkstick (18 January 2023)  Leo Blanken, Jason Lepore, and Cecilia Panella. 2022. “From the Lighthouse to the Christmas Tree: Enabling Distributed Innovation in the US Military,” Modern War Institute (27 July 2022)   Leo Blanken and Ben Cohen. 2022. “Reviving the Victory Garden: The Military Benefits of Sustainable Farming,” War on the Rocks (20 January 2022)  PERSONAL WEBSITE 

Doug Borer
Associate Professor
Expertise: Comparative Strategy. Asymmetric Warfare. Irregular Warfare. Legitimacy in War
Ph.D., Political Science, Boston University, 1993
daborer@nps.edu
831-656-2117
Douglas A. Borer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School and Executive Director of the Global ECCO Project.. A native son on Montana, Dr. Borer received his BA in Psychology from Ripon College in 1985, an MA in Political Science from the University of Montana in 1988, and his PhD in Political Science from Boston University in 1993. He has worked at a variety of academic postings, including the University of the South Pacific in Suva Fiji, the University of Western Australia in Perth, Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, the Universitii Kebangsaan in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, and the US Army War College in Carlisle Barracks Pennsylvania. His scholarship focuses on the politics of legitimacy in times of war, with regional focus on the Asia-Pacific. In 2007 he helped establish the Common Operational Research Environment (CORE) Lab at NPS. PUBLICATIONS Borer is the author of Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared (Frank Cass, 1999). He is co-editor with John Arquilla of Information Strategy and War: A Guide to Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2007); He is co-editor with Mark Berger of two books; The Long War-Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States (Routledge, 2008); and The Rise of East Asia: Critical Vision of the Pacific Century (Routledge, 1997). Borer has also authored or co-authored over seventy book chapters, professional articles, book reviews, and editorials.

Nancy Budden
Director, Special Operations Technology, Retired
Expertise: Advanced Technology, Intelligence, NPS Leadership

nbudden@nps.edu
Nancy Ann Budden serves as a volunteer and advisor to faculty and students, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey CA.  She retired from full-time government service in 2020, when she was sworn-in as a ‘Special Governmental Employee’ (SGE) to the Office of the SECDEF and Under SECDEF Research and Engineering, to serve as a Defense Technology Senior Advisor, to provide advice to the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of the SECDEF. Her technical advice encompasses the perspectives and historic information for Defense technologies, along with processes and successes for rapid technology transition, rapid fielding, prototyping, and optimizing advanced capabilities for war fighting communities, including Special Operations.  She was administered the oath of office on 8 Sept 2020.    2006 to present:  Special Governmental Employee (SGE) member of the NASA Headquarters Advisory Council (NAC) www.nasa.gov/offices/nac  Human Exploration and Operations Committee (HEOC).  HEOC provides the NASA Administrator and Associate Administrators advice on future missions to the Moon and Mars. She holds the appointment of Visiting Scientist with NASA’s Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston Texas.   PUBLICATIONS 2021 in prep, Budden N.A., and Votel, GEN Joseph L, Multi-Cultural Technology Teaming. To be submitted to Joint Force Quarterly. 2018, Eppler, Dean and N.A. Budden, Lighting Constraints to Lunar Surface Operations, in “Survive + Operate in the Lunar Night Workshop”, https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/survivethenight2018/); held in conjunction with the Fall 2018 Lunar Exploration Advisory Group meeting at USRA Headquarters, Columbia, MD on 13 Nov 2018, LPI Contribution #2106, Abstract 7008. 2007, Jolliff B. L and N. A. Budden et al, Science in NASA’s exploration strategy, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(29), 294. 2003, Budden, Nancy Ann, “Recommendations for Mars Surface Science: Geology, Biology and Paleontology”, in Workshop on Analog Sites and Facilities for Human Exploration of the Moon and Mars, Golden Colorado. 2000, Budden, Nancy Ann, “Outlook for the Future: UNOCAL Community Partnerships and Projects in Bangladesh.” 1999, Budden, Nancy Ann, “Initial Report of the Mars Field Geology, Biology and Paleontology Workshop: November 1998, Space Center Houston,” LPI Contribution #968, Lunar and Planetary Institute. 1998, Budden Nancy Ann, and Duke, Michael B., HEDS-UP Mars Exploration Forum,” LPI Contribution Number 955, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, 241 pp. 1997, Budden, Nancy Ann, 1997, “Virtual Presence: One Step Beyond Reality,” Ad Astra, National Space Society, vol. 9, number 1, pp. 30-35. 1995, Budden, Nancy Ann, “Tools of Tomorrow—Catalog of Lunar and Mars Science Payloads,” Beyond Low Earth Orbit, vol 2, number 3, pp. 4-5. 1995, Budden, Nancy Ann, “Virtual Presence: Robot turns Planetary Geologist as Scientists and Engineers Team Up.” Space News Round-up, NASA/JSC, v. 34 No. 3, January 20. 1994, Budden, Nancy Ann, Catalog of Lunar and Mars Science Payloads, NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA Reference Publication 1345, August. 1993, Duke, Michael B. and Budden, Nancy Ann, NASA Johnson Space Center, Mars Exploration Workshop II, NASA/Ames Research Center, NASA Conference Publication 3243, May. 1993, Budden, Nancy Ann, and Spudis, Paul, D., Evaluating Science Return in Space Exploration Initiative Architectures, NASA Technical Paper 3339, March. 1993, Budden, Nancy Ann and Spudis, Paul, D., Space Exploration Initiative Science, Measuring the Return, Aerospace America, March. 1992, Duke, Michael B. and Budden, Nancy Ann, NASA Johnson Space Center, Results, Proceedings and Analysis of the Mars Exploration Workshop, JSC-26001, August. 1991, Budden, N. A., Science Rationale for the Global Access of the Moon, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Conference Proceedings. 1990, Budden, N. A., Lunar/Mars Exploration Program Office White Paper Architectures: Science Development and Payloads, NASA internal document. 1990, Budden, N. A., "Human Exploration of the Moon, the Science Program for the NASA 90-Day Study", NASA/Goddard Workshop on Astrophysics from the Moon, Annapolis Maryland, 1989, Budden, N. A., "Science for the Lunar Case Study and Mars Case Study", NASA/Lunar Mars Exploration Program Office 1988 Annual Report. 1988, Brewster, N. A., "National Science Foundation's Global Geoscience Program, in Earthquest", Volume 1, No. 3. 1987, Brewster, N. A., editor, special dedicated issue of Discovery, "Understanding Planet Earth", National Science Foundation Publication, Volume 2., No. 4. 1982, Brewster, N. A., The Organizational Infrastructure of Union Oil Company, MBA Masters Thesis, California Lutheran College, Graduate School of Business. 1982, Brewster, N. A., "The determination of biogenic opal in high latitude deep sea sediments," Chapter 18, in Ijima et al (eds.), Siliceous Deposits in the Pacific Region, Developments in Sedimentology, v. 36. 1980, Brewster, N. A., Cenozoic biogenic silica sedimentation in the Antarctic Ocean, Geologic Society of America Bulletin, Part I, v. 91, pp. 337-347. 1977, Brewster, N. A., Biogenic silica sedimentation and surface productivity in the Cenozoic Antarctic Ocean, abstract, Geologic Society of America National Meeting, Seattle, WA, v. 9 no. 7, pp. 910-911. 1977, Brewster, N. A., Biogenic opal accumulation in the Southern Ocean during the Cenozoic, abstract, EOS, American Geophysical Union Transactions, v. 58, no. 6. 1977, Brewster, N. A., Cenozoic Biogenic Silica Sedimentation in the Antarctic Ocean, Based on Two Deep Sea Drilling Project Cores. Oregon State University, Graduate School of Oceanography, (Dr. Tj. van Andel, committee chairman), 99 pp.

Robert Burks
Associate Professor
Expertise: Wargaming, Information Operations Modeling, Combat Modeling, Agent-based Modeling, Joint Campaign Analysis, Megacities
Ph.D., Operations Research, Air Force Institute of Technology, 2006
reburks@nps.edu
831.656.2787
Colonel (R) Robert E. Burks, Jr., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the Director of the Naval Warfare Studies Institute (NWSI) Wargaming Center. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology, a M.S. in Operations Research from the Florida Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Military Academy. He is a retired logistics Army Colonel with over thirty years of extensive operational experience in leadership, advanced analytics, decision modeling, and logistics operations, and he has served as an Army Operations Research analyst in multiple command organizations. He has led multiple analytical study teams responsible for Army Transformation (organizational change) issues. His work includes applying analytical methods to develop solutions for complex problems in support of the Combined Arms Support Command, the Army’s sustainment think tank and premier sustainment learning institution. He has served as the technical expert on studies involving deployment, equipping, manning, training, and logistics operations of military forces in multiple theaters of operation and the NATO Technical Team of SAS-130 on Course of Action Analysis for the 21st Century. His research interests include Irregular Warfare and Stability Operations modeling, Information Operations modeling, Wargaming, Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation, and Joint Campaign analysis. His recent significant awards include the NPS Military Leadership Award, the NPS Joint Service Warfare Award, the Military Operations Research Journal Award for developing analytical methods for solving the Theater Distribution Problem, and the Omar Bradley Fellowship for the Study of Mathematical Sciences. PUBLICATIONS Books: 1. Modeling Change and Uncertainty: Machine Learning and Other Techniques. New York, NY: Chapman and Hall/CRC, (with Bill Fox), 2022. 2. Applied Advanced Mathematical Modeling with Technology. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group, (with Bill Fox), 2021. 3. The Craft of Wargaming: A Detailed Planning Guide for Defense Planners and Analysts. Annapolis, MD: Naval institute Press (with Jeff Appleget and Fred Cameron), 2020. 4. Applications of Operations Research and Management Science for Military Decision Making. Switzerland: Springer (with Bill Fox), 2019. 5. Understanding Human-built Operational Environment. Monterey, CA: Department of Defense Analysis, Naval Postgraduate School, (with Leo Blanken and Iver Johansen), 2017. Chapters in Books: 1. Appleget, J., Burks, R., “Wargaming: Sponsor Education,” in Forging Wargamers: A Framework for Wargaming Education, edited by Sebastian Bae, Marine Corps University Press, 2022. 173-192. 2. Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., “The Goodgrant Challenge,” Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 4. Ed. Jie Wang. Higher Education Press, 2020. 16 – 57. 3. Fox, B., Burks, R., “Send in the Drones: Developing an Aerial disaster Relief Response System,” Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 4. Ed. Jie Wang. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2020. 58 – 96. 4. Sturdivant, R., Burks, R., “The Impact of Self-Driving Cars on Traffic Flow,” Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 3. Ed. Jie Wang. Higher Education Press, 2018. 61 – 98. Referred Journal Articles: 1. Shaw, A., Mueller, C., Biolzi, F., Villani, N., O’Brien, F., Burks, R., “Understanding Noise Exposure During Cast Removal: The Effect of Cast Saw Type and Casting Material,” Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 104(17): 1573-1578, 2022. 2. Moreland, C., Shaw, K., Burks, R., Baird, M., Hattaway, J., Parada, S., Waterman, B., “Primary medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction in military servicemembers: Can we reliably restore preinjury function and stability?,” Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 9(6), 2022. 3. Burks, R., Erickson, K., “Judges’ Commentary: Sharing Water and Hydroeltric Power,” The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications, 43(4): 425-432, 2022. 4. Appleget, J., Kline, J., Burks, R., “Revamping Wargaming Education for the US Department of Defense,” Center for International Maritime Security, 2020. 5. Shaw, A., Mottern, E., Parada, S., Burks, R., Dumont, G., Waterman, B., Nho, S., “Low Rate of Return to Impact Activity Following Core Decompression for Femoral Head AVN in Military Servicemembers,” Military Medicine, 184(1-2): 243-248, 2019. 6. Fox, W., Burks, R., “Judges’ Commentary: How Many Languages?,” The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications, 39(3), 313-320, 2018. 7. Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., “The Goodgrant Challenge,” Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 4. Ed. Jie Wang. Higher Education Press, 58 – 95. Print, 2018. 8. Shaw, A., Edward, P., Stephen, Burks, R., Dumont, G., Waterman, B., Nho, S., “Low Rate of Return to Impact Activity Following Core Decompression for Femoral Head AVN in Military Servicemembers,” Military Medicine, usy163, 2018. 9. Greaver, B., Raabe, L., Fox, W., Burks, R., “CARVER 2.0: Integrating the Analytical Hierarchy Process’s multi-attribute decision-making weighting scheme for a center of gravity vulnerability analysis for US Special Operations Forces,” The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 15(1), 111-120, 2018. 10. Appleget, J., Cameron, F., Burks, R., Kline, J., “Wargaming at the Naval Postgraduate School,” CSIAC Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems, 4(3), 18-23, 2016. 11. Waterman, B., Arroyo, W., Heida, K., Burks, R., Pallis, M., “SLAP Repairs With Combined Procedures Have Lower Failure Rate Than Isolated Repairs in a Military Population,” The Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 3(8):1-7,2015. 12. Belmont, P., Heida, K., Keeney, J., Burks, R.  

Nathan Christensen
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: Deputy Director, RDFP Global ECCO Program
MBA, International Management, Thunderbird School of Management, 2001
npchrist@nps.edu
Mr. Nathan Christensen joined the United States Naval Postgraduate School in 2011 as a Faculty Associate and is the Deputy Director for Global ECCO (Education Collaboration Community Online), sponsored by the Regional Defense Fellowship Program (RDFP) under the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Global ECCO utilizes the full capabilities of NPS in a security cooperation mission, reaching out to partner countries to build sustainable capacity in the spirit of “Academic Diplomacy”. Prior to joining NPS, he spent 10 years developing and executing strategy and business development for large multi-national organizations. Additionally, he employed competitive intelligence training and expertise to make organizations more competitive relative to their environment and stakeholders: customers, competitors, distributors, technologies and macro-economic data etc. His areas of research interest include fiscal transparency/anti-corruption as well as counter terrorism & border security. He has developed and implemented DoS & DoD engagements on behalf of NPS in Brazil, Chile, India and Germany. He worked closely with the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to create & provide in-residence Border Security short courses for the Egyptian Ministries of Defense, Interior & Finance. This program was successfully expanded to Tunisia, Algeria & Morocco. After working in Chicago, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, Mr. Christensen moved to Monterey, California to join the NPS team. His responsibilities include international outreach and partnering efforts, program management, and leveraging opportunities to match academic and research capability & resources across Department of Defense, State Department, NATO and U.N. partner capacity building goals and objectives. Mr. Christensen received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a Minor in Spanish Language from Colorado State University in 1998 and received his MBA in International Management from Thunderbird in 2001. Additionally, he is fluent in Portuguese and proficient in Spanish.  

Dorothy Denning
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Expertise: Information Warfare, Codes and Ciphers, Networks and Society, and Data Communications
Ph.D., in Computer Science, Purdue University,
dedennin@nps.edu

Nicholas Dew
Professor
Expertise: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management
Ph.D., University of Virginia-Darden School of Business, 2003,
ndew@nps.edu
408-373-7237
Nick Dew is a Professor of Management at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. He works in the Defense Management and Defense Analysis departments and with the Center for Homeland Defense & Security at NPS. His teaching and research focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy in defense and homeland security. He has a Ph.D. and MBA from the University of Virginia and experience working in the international energy industry. He is the author of over 50 research papers and an award-winning entrepreneurship textbook. His teaching and research has been funded by various DoD agencies and recognized in multiple teaching and research awards. He has served in a variety of academic leadership and program development roles at NPS. PUBLICATIONS  1. Dew, N. & Lewis, I, 2022. ”System-on-System Competition in Defense Innovation.” Expeditions with MCUP, Marine Corps University Press. 2. McVea, J. & Dew, N., 2021. “Unshackling imagination How philosophical pragmatism can liberate entrepreneurial decision-making.” Journal of Business Ethics, October, pp.1-16. 3. Ramesh, A, Dew, N., Read, S. & Sarasvathy, S., 2018. “The Choice to Become an Entrepreneur as a Response to Policy Incentives.” International Review of Entrepreneurship, 16(4): pp. 489-524.

Sean Everton
Professor
Expertise: Social Networks, Dark Networks, Terrorism, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University, 2007
sfeverto@nps.edu
‭831-656-2709‬
Sean Everton is a Professor in the Defense Analysis Department and the Co-Director of the CORE (Common Operational Research Environment) Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). Before joining NPS in 2007, he served as an adjunct professor at Santa Clara and Stanford universities. Professor Everton earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology at Stanford and wrote his doctoral thesis on the causes and consequences of status on venture capital firm performance. He specializes in using social network analysis to track and disrupt dark networks (e.g., criminal and terrorist networks), and he has published in the areas of social network analysis, sociology of religion, diffusion, economic sociology, and political sociology. His first book, Disrupting Dark Networks, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012, and his second, Understanding Dark Networks (co-authored with Daniel Cunningham and Phil Murphy), was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2016. His third, Networks and Religion, explores the interplay of networks and religion and was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. Most recently, he published a Spanish introduction to social network analysis with Christopher Callaghan and General Alvarez Torres (Análisis de Redes Sociales). PUBLICATIONS 2023. “American Civil Religion in the Era of Donald Trump.” Forthcoming in Religions 14. 2022. Análisis de Redes Sociales. Lima, Peru: Escuela Superior de Guerra del Ejército (with Christopher Callaghan and Augusto Álvarez Torrez). 2022. “A Network Analysis of Twitter’s Crackdown on the QAnon Conversation.” Journal of Social Structure. 23(1): 4-27: https://sciendo.com/article/10.21307/joss-2022-002 (with Daniel Cunningham). 2022. “Historical and Comparative Research on Social Diffusion: Mechanisms, Methods, and Data.” Social Science History 46(2):431-472 (with Steven Pfaff). 2020. “Homegrown Terrorism: A Social Network Analysis of a Minnesota ISIS Cell.” Combatting Terrorism Exchange (CTX) 10(1):36-47 (with Marcelle Burroni). 2018. Networks and Religion: Ties That Bind, Loose, Build-up, and Tear Down. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. “Hiding in Plain Sight.” Nature Human Behaviour 2:115-116. doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0299-2. 2017. “Social Media Exploitation by Covert Networks: A Case Study of ISIS.” Communications of the Association for Information Systems 1(5):97-120 (with Lee A. Freeman and Robert Schroeder). 2016. “Social Networks and Religious Violence.” Review of Religious Research 58: 191-217. 2016. Understanding Dark Networks: A Strategic Framework for the Use of Social Network Analysis. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (with Daniel Cunningham and Philip Murphy). “Brokers and Key Players in the Internationalization of the FARC.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 36(6):477-502 (with Daniel Cunningham, Greg Wilson, Carlos Padilla, and Doug Zimmerman). 2012. Disrupting Dark Networks. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. PERSONAL WEBSITE

William P. Fox
Professor Emeritus
Expertise: Mathematical Modeling. Game Theory, Optimization, Probability & Statistics
Ph.D. at Clemson University,
wpfox@nps.edu
Dr. William P. Fox is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the College of William and Mary. He received his BS degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, his MS in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School, and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University. He has taught at the United States Military Academy for twelve years until retiring for active military service, at Francis Marion University where he was the chair of mathematics for eight years, and twelve years at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has many publications and scholarly activities including over twenty books, twenty-four chapters of books & technical reports, over one hundred and fifty journal articles, and over one hundred and fifty conference presentations and mathematical modeling workshops. He has directed several international mathematical modeling contests through the Consortium of Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP): the HiMCM and the MCM. His interests include applied mathematics, optimization (linear and nonlinear), mathematical modeling, statistical models, model for decision making in business, industry, medical and government, and computer simulations. He is a member of INFORMS, the Military Application Society of INFORMS, Mathematical Association of America, and Society for Industrial and Applied mathematics where he has held numerous positions. PUBLICATIONS Books Fox, W., Giordano, F., Maddox, S., & Weir, M. (1987). Mathematical Modeling with Minitab. Brooks Cole Publishing Co., Monterey, CA. Giordano, Frank, M. Weir, and W. P. Fox (1997). A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, 2nd Edition. Brooks-Cole Publishing Co. Pacific Grove, CA. Giordano, Frank, M. Weir, and W. P. Fox (1997). Instructor Solutions and Labs for: A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, 2nd Edition, Brooks Cole Publishing Co., and Pacific Grove, CA. Fox, William P. and Richard D. West, (1999). Math Modeling and Problem Solving I, Francis Marion University Printing Plant. (all royalties contributed to the Department of Mathematics, FMU). Fox, William P. and Richard D. West, (1999). Math Modeling and Problem Solving II, Francis Marion University Print Plant. (all royalties contributed to the Department of Mathematics, FMU). Giordano, Frank, M. Weir, and W. P. Fox (2003). A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, 3rd Edition, Brooks Cole Publishing Co., 538 pages, Pacific Grove, CA. Giordano, Frank, M. Weir, and W. P. Fox. (2003). Instructor Solutions and Labs for: A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, 3rd Edition, Brooks Cole Publishing Co., Pacific Grove, CA. Fox, William P. (2003). Technology Labs and Sample Exams- A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, 3rd Ed. Brooks Cole Publishing, Brooks-Cole Technical Web Support site. Giordano, Frank, W.P. Fox, S. Horton, and M. Weir. (2009). A First Course in Mathematical Modeling. 4th Edition, Cengage Publishing: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., Belmont, CA. Giordano, Frank, W.P. Fox, S. Horton, and M. Weir. (2009). Instructors Manual and Solutions to A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, Cengage Publishing: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., Belmont, CA. Fox, William P., Frank R Giordano, and Maurice Wier) (2012). Mathematical Modeling with Maple, Cengage Publishing, Boston, MA. Fox, William P. (2012). Instructors Manual and Solution to Mathematical Modeling with Maple, Cengage Publishing, Boston, MA. Giordano. F. R., William P. Fox, & Steve Horton. (2014). A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, 5th edition. Cengage Publishing, Boston, MA. Giordano. F. R., William P. Fox & Steve Horton (2014). Instructors Manual and Solutions to A First Course in Mathematical Modeling, 5th edition, Cengage Publishing: Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., Boston, MA. Fox, W. (2104). Mathematical Modeling Applied through MADM Methods in Social and Dark Networks, Lambert Publishing. Germany. Belanger, Jay William P. Fox, & Jie Wang, Editors. (2017). Write Right for the American Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Second Edition). April 12, 2017 Higher Education Press. Fox, W. P. (2017). Mathematical Modeling for Business Analytics, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press. December 2017. Fox, W.P. and Burks, R. E., (2019). Applications of Operations Research and Management Science for Military Decision Making, Springer Series. Fox, W. and Bauldry, W., (2019). Problem Solving with Maple. Volume 1. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press. Fox, W. and Bauldry, W., (2020). Problem Solving with Maple. Volume II, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press. Brian Albright and WP Fox. (2019). Advanced Mathematical Modeling with Technology. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press. Fox, W.P. (2021). Nonlinear Optimization. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press. Fox, W. P. (2021). Mathematical modeling in the age of a pandemic, Taylor and Francis, CRC Press. Fox, W.P. and Burks, R. (2021). Advanced mathematical modeling. Taylor and Francis, CRC press. Fox, W. P. and R. Sturdavant (2022). Probability and statistics for engineering and sciences with modeling using R. CRC Press. Boca. Raton, Fl  

Michael Freeman
Professor
Expertise: Terrorism, Political Violence, International Relations
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2001
mefreema@nps.edu
831-656-3731
Michael Freeman is a professor in the Department of Defense Analysis. He is the author of Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror (Praeger, 2003), the editor of Financing Terrorism: Case Studies (Ashgate 2012), the author of The Global Spread of Salafism (University of Nebraska, 2021), as well as the author of several journal articles and book chapters on terrorism, emergency powers, and terrorist financing. He is also the designer of nine online, “serious” games on terrorism and counterterrorism. In 2014, he was the recipient of NPS’s Hamming Award in recognition of his excellence in teaching and engagement with students. While at NPS, he was Chair of the Faculty Council (2017), Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs (2018-2021), and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs (2021-2022). PUBLICATIONS The Global Spread of Islamism and the Consequences for Terrorism. With Katherine Ellena and Amina Kator-Mubarez. University of Nebraska Press (Potomac), 2021. Terror Financing: Case Studies, editor. Ashgate, 2012. Freedom or Security: The Consequences for Democracies Using Emergency Powers to Fight Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. “Education is the Technology the Navy Needs Most,” (with Todd Lyons) Proceedings July 2020. “Pushing the Envelope of Pedagogical Gaming: Dark Networks,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 50, No. 4, 2017. “A Theory of Terrorist Leadership (and its Consequences for Leadership Targeting” Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014. “How Terrorists Move Money: An Introduction,” with Moyara Ruehsen, Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2013. “The Sources of Terrorist Financing: Theory and Typology,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 34, No. 6, June 2011. “Pathways to Terror: Finding Patterns Prior to an Attack,” with David Tucker, and Steffen Merten, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010. “Democracy, Al-Qaeda, and the Causes of Terrorism: A Strategic Analysis of U.S. Policy,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 31, No. 1, January 2008. “Balancing National Security and Civil Liberties,” roundtable of six scholars, Focus on Law Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 2007. “Terrorism and Civil Liberties in the United States: How to Have Both Freedom and Security,” Democracy and Security, Vol. 2, No. 2, July-December 2006.

Brian Greenshields
Associate Chair for Operations
Expertise: Irregular Warfare and Airpower; Special Operations

bhgreens@nps.edu
Col Greenshields, USAF (ret), currently serves as the Associate Chair for Operations in the Defense Analysis Department. Col (ret) Greenshields earned a B.S. from the US Air Force Academy and a M.A. “With Distinction” from the Naval Postgraduate School. Col (ret) Greenshields is a Master Navigator with over 3,600 hours in HC and MC-130P aircraft having spent the majority of his career in Air Force Special Operations or in Special Duty assignments. He served as Director of Operations at the 67 SOS, RAF Mildenhall, UK; commanded the 550 SOS, Kirtland AFB, NM; was Deputy Group Commander, 16th Operations Group (OG), and later commander, 16th Operations Group (re-designated the 1st Special Operations Group), Hurlburt Field, FL. He also served as the Combined/Joint Special Operations Air Component Commander for both OIF and OEF.

Shannon Houck
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Influence and Persuasion; Psychological Resilience and Resistance; Social Psychology of Extremism, Polarization, and Conflict; Language Analysis; Experimental and Quantitative Methods
Ph.D., Experimental (Social) Psychology, University of Montana, 2015
shannon.houck@nps.edu
Dr. Shannon Houck is an Assistant Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). She is a Social Psychologist with expertise on the science of influence and persuasion, psychological resilience and resistance, and extremism. Prior to joining NPS, she was a faculty member at Syracuse University from 2016-2020. She is the author of over 40 scholarly articles and book chapters, and her research has been featured on popular news outlets such as the New York Times, Psychology Today, and USA Today. PUBLICATIONS Houck, S.C. (2022). Psychological Capabilities for Resilience. War on the Rocks. https://warontherocks.com/2022/12/psychological-capabilities-for-resilience/ Houck, S.C. & Allan, J.R. (2022). QAnon’s Psychological Influence: Investigating Q’s Digital Messaging. Combatting Terrorism Exchange. Borer & Houck, S.C. (2022). Relative Weakness: The Secret to Understanding Irregular Warfare. Small Wars Journal. https://smallwarsjournal.com/index.php/jrnl/art/relative-weakness-secret-understanding-irregular-warfare Dundon, M. & Houck, S.C. (2022). Adversarial Propaganda: How Enemies Target the U.S. to Breed Societal Division. Journal of Applied Security Research. Maness, R.C., Houck, S.C., & Lorentz, R. (2022). Operations in the Information Environment and Cyber-enabled Information Operations. In Interdisciplinary Study of Combatting Hybrid Threats. Houck, S.C., Salvati, J.M., Newman, L.S., Vrij, A. (2021). Simulating interrogation in the lab: Examining the effectiveness of pain, coercive verbal pressure, and rapport-building for obtaining reliable information. Journal of Applied Security Research. Houck, S.C. Conway, L.G., & Zubrod, A. (2021). Automated Integrative Complexity: A language analysis tool for psychological research. In R. Boyd & M. Dehghani (Eds.), The Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology. Guilford Press. Houck, S.C., Branagan, B., Gramm, J., & Crisafulli, J. (2021). Changing Hearts and Brains: SOF Must Prepare Now for Neurowarfare. Small Wars Journal. https://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/changing-hearts-and-brains-sof-must-prepare-now- neurowarfare Conway, L.G., III, Conway, K.R., & Houck, S.C. (2020). Validating Automated Integrative Complexity: Natural language processing and the Donald Trump test. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 8(2), 504-524. Houck, S.C., & Conway & L.G. III. (2019). Strategic communication and the integrative complexity-ideology relationship: Meta-analytic findings reveal differences between public politicians and private citizens in their use of simple language. Political Psychology, 40: 1119-1141. Houck, S.C., McFarland, J., Machia, L.V., & Conway, L.G. III. (2019). When beliefs lead to (im)moral action: How believing in torture’s effectiveness shapes the endorsement of its use. Political Psychology, 40: 1315-1339. Conway, L.G, III, Houck, S.C., Gornick, L.J., & Repke, M.A. (2018). Finding the Loch Ness Monster: Left-Wing Authoritarianism in the United States. Political Psychology, 39(5), 1049–67. Houck, S.C., Repke, M.A., Conway, L.G. III. (2017). Understanding what makes terrorist groups’ propaganda effective: An integrative complexity analysis of ISIL and Al Qaeda. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 12(2), 105-118. Houck, S.C., & Repke, M.A. (2017). When and why we torture: A review of psychology research. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 3(3), 272-283. Houck, S.C., & Conway, L.G. III (2015). Ethically investigating torture efficacy: A new methodology to test the influence of pain on decision-making processes in experimental interrogation scenarios. Journal of Applied Security Research, 10(4), 510-524. Houck, S.C., Conway, L.G., III, Gornick, L.J. (2014). Automated integrative complexity: Current challenges and future directions. Political Psychology, 35, 647-659.

Thomas Jamison
Assistant Professor
Expertise: International History, Naval Warfare, Irregular Warfare, China, U.S. Foreign Relations
Ph.D., International History, Harvard University, 2020
Thomas.jamison@nps.edu
Dr. Tommy Jamison is a military historian and Asst. Professor of Strategic Studies in the Defense Analysis Dept., Naval Postgraduate School. His work explores the naval history of the Pacific, with an emphasis on technological shifts and institutional adaptation. In 2024, he will enjoy a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Tokyo. Prior to arriving at NPS, he held a Predoctoral Fellowship at the Clements Center for National Security, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Jamison’s dissertation “Pacific Wars” won the Society for Military History’s Coffman Prize for Best Dissertation (2021) and the Oxford University Press USA Award in International History (2022). That work is currently under revision for publication with Cambridge University Press. In addition, he has published award-winning articles with the Journal of Military History and Technology and Culture. He holds a Ph.D. (2020) and MA (2017) in International History from Harvard University, a BA in History from Grinnell College (2009). From 2009-2014, Dr. Jamison worked as a Defense Intelligence Agency Staff Officer and Naval Intelligence Officer in both the Western Pacific and Afghanistan. He currently lives in Monterey, CA with his wife and their Belgian Malinois. PUBLICATIONS Manuscripts: “The Not-So Pacific: Pacific Wars and the Making of U.S. Sea Power.” (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming) Peer Reviewed Articles: Technology and Culture, “Man the Torpedo (Boats!): Gender and Technology in the Making of Modern Naval War” (2022, Gibson Prize, 2023) Journal of Advanced Military Studies, “The Port-Hopping War: Amphibious Operations and the War of the Pacific” (2022) Comparative Strategy, “Taking the Modern System to Sea” (2022) Journal of Military History, “The War of the Pacific, Technology and U.S. Naval Development: An International History of Regional War” (2018, Moncado/Vandervort Prize, 2019) Intelligence and National Security, “Geospatial Intelligence and the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842): Reframing the History of Naval Intelligence” (2018)

Amina Kator-Mubarez
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: Global ECCO Program, Security Cooperation
M.A., Security Studies (Combating Terrorism), Naval Postgraduate School, 2014
akatormu@nps.edu
Mrs. Amina Kator-Mubarez has been with the United States Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) since 2011, where she serves as a Faculty Associate for Global ECCO (Education Collaboration Community Online), a program sponsored by the Regional Defense Fellowship Program (RDFP). Under the Global ECCO program, she is also the Managing Editor of the Combating Threats Exchange (CTX) Journal, an online, peer-reviewed publication focused on irregular warfare. CTX emphasizes capturing the perspectives of international military officers, making it a unique platform within the global security community. Global ECCO leverages the full capabilities of NPS to support a security cooperation mission aimed at building sustainable capacity with partner nations through “Academic Diplomacy.” As part of this mission, Mrs. Kator-Mubarez solicits and analyzes articles from RDFP-affiliated professionals, academics, and security experts for CTX while fostering alumni engagement across the RDFP community. Prior to her current role, Mrs. Kator-Mubarez worked as a Research Associate for the Program for Culture and Conflict Studies at NPS, where she drafted and briefed unclassified strategy papers on counterinsurgency and stability operations in Afghanistan for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and USCENTCOM. In addition to her editorial responsibilities, Mrs. Kator-Mubarez facilitates strategic gaming exercises developed by Global ECCO, delivering these exercises to prestigious institutions such as the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Defense University (NDU), and the Marshall European Center for Security Studies. Mrs. Kator-Mubarez holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a Minor in Global Poverty and Practice from the University of California, Berkeley (2006), and a Master of Arts degree in Security Studies with a concentration in Combating Terrorism Policy and Strategy from the Naval Postgraduate School (2009). She is fluent in Dari and proficient in Urdu, further enhancing her ability to engage in diverse cultural and academic environments.  

Rebecca Lorentz
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: DoD IO Center for Research, Global ECCO Program
M.A., Public Policy, Panetta Institute, 2010
rdlorent@nps.edu
Ms. Rebecca Lorentz has been with the department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey since 2009. She received a Masters of Public Policy from the Panetta Institute of Public Policy in 2010. Her work has been published in Afghan Endgames (Georgetown University Press, 2012), and Gangs and Guerrillas (NPS, 2011) writing about the complexity of social issues and civil society. She is currently the Deputy Director of the DoD Information Strategy and Research Center at the Naval Postgraduate School. Current fields of study include misinformation, disinformation and how each are used in information operations to affect behavior and strategy as well as the role of cognitive biases in information warfare.

Ryan Maness
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Cyber Strategy and Policy, Cyber-enabled Information Operations, Operations in the Information Environment
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2013
rmaness@nps.edu
773-655-4885
Ryan C. Maness (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago 2013) is an assistant professor and the academic associate for the curriculum on information strategy and political warfare (698) at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is also the director of the DoD Information Strategy Research Center at NPS. His research includes operations in the information environment, specifically in cyberspace, cyber strategy, and power dynamics and interactions among states in cyberspace. Current research includes the collection of all state-initiated cyber incidents, cyber-enabled information operations, and information campaigns for the years 2000-2020, called the Dyadic Cyber Incident and Campaign Dataset (DCID) 2.0. These data are to be open-sourced and publicly available and will give scholars and practitioners new tools to uncover the dynamics of cyber and information conflict within and through cyberspace. Other current research is measuring escalation within and through cyberspace by capturing DIME events enacted with cyber operations, and the target state’s responses to these combined foreign policy actions, cyber operations’ role in the Russo-Ukraine war, influence operations from China and Russia, and sponsored research with ONR and NRP. His forthcoming book, Cyberwar versus Cyber Realities 2.0, is a second edition of his 2015 book with Oxford University Press. Another book proposal on escalation is in negotiations. He has also published Cyber Strategy (2018, Oxford) and Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy (2015, Macmillan) as well as several top journals in security studies. He teaches Conflict in Cyberspace, Computer Network Attack and Defense, and Conflict in Europe and the post-Soviet space in the Defense Analysis Department at NPS. PUBLICATIONS Books: Cyberwar versus Cyber Realities 2.0: Cyber Conflict in the International System (2nd ed.), (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023 Forthcoming). Cyber Strategy: The Evolving Character of Power and Coercion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) ISBN: 9780190618094. Russia’s Coercive Diplomacy: Energy, Cyber and Maritime Policy as New Sources of Power (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) ISBN: 9781137479433. Cyber War versus Cyber Realities: Cyber Conflict in the International System (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) ISBN: 9780190204792. Peer Reviewed Journal Articles: “The Dynamics of Cyber and Cross-Domain Escalation.” 2023, Submitted, Under Review. “Expanding the Dyadic Cyber Incident and Campaign (DCID) Dataset: Cyber Conflict from 2000 to 2020.” 2022, Forthcoming, Cyber Defense Review. “Fancy Bears and Digital Trolls: Cyber Strategy with a Russian Twist.” Journal of Strategic Studies, 42 (2, 2019): 212-234. “How We Stopped Worrying about Cyber Doom and Started Collecting Data.” Politics and Governance, 6 (2, 2018): 49-60. “Rethinking the Data Wheel: Automating Open-Access, Public Data on Cyber Conflict.” In 2018 10th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon X: Maximizing Effects, T. Minárik, R. Jakschis, L. Lindström (Eds.), NATO CCD COE Publications, Tallinn, 2018. “Creating a Safe and Prosperous Cyberspace: The Path to Ise-Shima Cyber Security Norms.” The Strategy Bridge, 8/2/2017. “The Impact of Cyber Conflict on International Interactions.” Armed Forces and Society 42 (2, 2016): 301-323. “The Dynamics of Cyber Conflict between Rival Antagonists, 2001-2011.” Journal of Peace Research, 51 (3, 2014): 347-360. “Russia and the Near Abroad: Applying a Risk Barometer for War.” Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 25 (2, 2012): 125-148. Book Chapters and other Journal Articles “The Failure of Cyber War and the Promise of Operations in the Information Environment” (2022): forthcoming. “The Power of Information: Cyber Conflict in the Age of Great Power Competition,” in Strategy, 7th Edition, (2022): Oxford University Press. “What do we know about Cyber War” Vasquez/Mitchell (eds.) What do We Know about War, 3rd ed. (2021): Rowman and Littlefield. “Death by a Thousand Cuts: Is Russia Winning the Information War with the West?” in Security Challenges in the EU-Russia Relations, I. Pawel Karolewski and Maia D. Cross (eds.), (2021): University of Michigan Press. "Cyber Conflict at the Intersection of Information Operations." Information Warfare in the Age of Cyber Conflict (2020): Routledge. “A Crisis of Trust in Transatlantic Cybersecurity Relations in the Post-Snowden Era.” in The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Order: Enduring Crisis? Gordon Friedrichs, Sebastian Harnisch, and Cameron G. Thies (eds.), (2019): Routledge: 143-160. “The Dynamics of Cyber Dispute Mediation and Resolution,” in The Handbook on Mediating International Crises, Jonathan Wilkenfield, Kyle Beardsley, and David Quin (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishers: 350-359. “International Cyber Conflict and National Security,” in The Oxford Handbook of US National Security, Derek Reveron, Nikolas Gvosdev, and John Cloud (eds.), (2018): Oxford University Press. “International Political Theory and Cyber Security” The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, Robyn Eckersley and Chris Brown, (eds.), (2018): Oxford University Press. “Did Russia Just Hand Donald Trump the Presidency?” in US Election Analysis 2016: Media, Voters and the Campaign. (2017): Eds. Darren Lillekar, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, and Anastasia Veneti, pp. 72-73. “Countering Russian Aggression with Sanctions: Limited Options and Self-Defeating Strategies” Enduring Questions Essay Contribution to the ABC-CLIO: American Government Idea Exchange (2016). “Cyber Spillover Conflicts: Transitions from Cyber Conflict to Conventional Foreign Policy Disputes?” in Conflict in Cyberspace, Karsten Friis and Jens Ringsmose, Eds., (2016): Routledge. “The Coming Cyberp PERSONAL WEBSITE   

Michael Mollohan
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: Irregular Warfare Education
Ph.D., Education & Organizational Leadership (Current Doctoral Student), 2022
michael.mollohan@nps.edu
Mr. Mollohan is the lead for Regional Defense Fellowship Program Evaluation team at the Naval Postgraduate School Defense Analysis Department focused on Irregular Warfare curriculum development, evaluation, and operationalization. Prior to his current position, Michael served as the regional security and policy advisor for the SOJ3-International, Special Operations Command Pacific. His area of responsibilities included the design, development, and execution of multinational Special Operations Forces (SOF) and related security sector education and cooperation. Michael is a retired Marine Corps Foreign Area Officer with more than 35 years of combined active duty and civilian service. He served as a military professor, senior service advisor for the Marine Corps, course director and co-lead on the counter-terrorism program for the Daniel K. Inouye, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI-APCSS). While on active duty he had the privilege of serving in several countries as a military advisor and operations officer including assignments as a peacekeeper and the United Nations Operations Officer in the Republic of Georgia during the crisis of 2008-2009. As a military professor and senior lecturer, Michael has conducted research and executive education programs for senior decision makers to operational leaders from numerous U.S. and Partner Nation security practitioner and academic organizations across the interagency, public and private sector. His areas of research and lecturing interest include Irregular Warfare and Security Education, Southeast Asia, Russia and the Former Soviet Union, Combatting Terrorism, Resiliency and Crises, Resistance and Global Power Competition. A current doctoral student completing his dissertation in SOF Education and Leadership, he also holds master’s degrees in National Security from the Naval Postgraduate School) and Business from Troy State University and is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (Political Science, Russia and the Former Soviet Union). LINKEDIN PROFILE

Siamak Tundra Naficy
Senior Lecturer
Expertise: Anthropology
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
stnaficy@nps.edu; siamaknaficy@yahoo.com
310-849-3633
An anthropologist (PhD at UCLA, 2010) with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to social, biological, psychological, and cultural issues. Interests range from the anthropological approach to conflict theory to sacred values, wicked problems, cognitive science, and animal behavior. PUBLICATIONS 1) Barbarism Begins at Home https://nps.edu/web/ecco/global-ecco-insights  2) "Towards an Anthropology of Delinquency (Feared and Revered)" chrome extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://nps.edu/documents/110773463/137155527/CTX-VOL1202-Feared+and+Reveared+.pdf    3) "A Ukrainian State of Mind" https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/a-ukrainian-state-of-mind/  4) "Anti-Strategy (Why the U.S. is on the Brink of All-Out War with Iran" https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/02/20/why-the-u-s-is-on-the-brink-of-all-out-war-with-iran/ 

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Matthew Zefferman
Assistant Professor, Quantitative Social Scientist
 Ph.D., Cultural Evolution and Human Behavioral Ecology, University of California, Davis, 2013
mrzeffer@nps.edu

In my research I use mathematical models and ethnographic field research to understand human culture, cooperation, and conflict – especially in the contexts of political organization and war. I also have conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Turkana pastoralist warriors in northwest Kenya. They also have a high degree of combat exposure – with about half of adult male mortality due to combat in cattle raids. I am interested in how Turkana organization for war has influenced their susceptibility to combat stress and moral injury. I have interviewed hundreds of warriors about their combat experiences, moral beliefs about warfare, combat stress symptoms, and moral injury. 

Before starting as an assistant professor at NPS I was a Donald R. Beall Defense Fellow in my department. Before that I was a postdoctoral research fellow at ASU’s Institute of Human Origins and a member of the Adaptation, Behavior, Culture and Society research group in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and, before that, earned by PhD at the University of California, Davis in the Cultural Evolution and Human Behavioral Ecology Labs. 

I am also a US Air Force veteran with six years of service as a civil engineering officer with deployments to the UAE and Afghanistan.