Defense Analysis Department Chair,  Dr. Michael E. Freeman

Dr. Carter Malkasian, Defense Analysis, 黑料吃瓜网, 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, 鈥渟erious鈥� games on terrorism and counterterrorism. In 2014, he was the recipient of NPS鈥檚 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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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 黑料吃瓜网 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鈥攆irst, with her assistance and now her management鈥攐ver 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. 黑料吃瓜网: Monterey, CA. Thomas, G.F., Neff, J., Stephens, K., & Baho, S. (2017). Gaining Middle Managers鈥� Support for Strategic Change: Literature Review. 黑料吃瓜网: 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 黑料吃瓜网 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 黑料吃瓜网 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. 鈥淧olicy Conflicts in Shale Development in China and the United States.鈥� Review of Policy Research, 00, 1鈥�17. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12534 Bailey, Kathleen, and Robert M. McNab. 2008. 鈥淭he Washington Consensus and Latin America鈥檚 Left Turn: Has U.S. National Security Suffered as a Result?鈥� Security and Defense Studies Review 8 (1): 1-21. McNab, Robert M., and Kathleen Bailey. 2007. 鈥淟atin America and the Debate Over Environmental Protection and National Security.鈥� Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) Journal 29 (4): 18-34. Non-Referred Technical Report: Bailey, Kathleen. 2014. 鈥淲orking in the Same Space.鈥� The Collaborative & Adaptive Security Initiative, 黑料吃瓜网. 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 鈥淎pplied Design for Innovation鈥� 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. 鈥淲hy Fashion Matters in an Era of Strategic Competition,鈥滻nkstick (18 January 2023)  Leo Blanken, Jason Lepore, and Cecilia Panella. 2022. 鈥淔rom the Lighthouse to the Christmas Tree: Enabling Distributed Innovation in the US Military,鈥� Modern War Institute (27 July 2022)   Leo Blanken and Ben Cohen. 2022. 鈥淩eviving the Victory Garden: The Military Benefits of Sustainable Farming,鈥� 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 黑料吃瓜网 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.

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 黑料吃瓜网 (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鈥檚 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, 黑料吃瓜网, (with Leo Blanken and Iver Johansen), 2017. Chapters in Books: 1. Appleget, J., Burks, R., 鈥淲argaming: Sponsor Education,鈥� in Forging Wargamers: A Framework for Wargaming Education, edited by Sebastian Bae, Marine Corps University Press, 2022. 173-192. 2. Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., 鈥淭he Goodgrant Challenge,鈥� Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 4. Ed. Jie Wang. Higher Education Press, 2020. 16 鈥� 57. 3. Fox, B., Burks, R., 鈥淪end in the Drones: Developing an Aerial disaster Relief Response System,鈥� Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 4. Ed. Jie Wang. Beijing: Higher Education Press, 2020. 58 鈥� 96. 4. Sturdivant, R., Burks, R., 鈥淭he Impact of Self-Driving Cars on Traffic Flow,鈥� Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 3. Ed. Jie Wang. Higher Education Press, 2018. 61 鈥� 98. Referred Journal Articles: 1. Shaw, A., Mueller, C., Biolzi, F., Villani, N., O鈥橞rien, F., Burks, R., 鈥淯nderstanding Noise Exposure During Cast Removal: The Effect of Cast Saw Type and Casting Material,鈥� 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., 鈥淧rimary medial patellofemoral ligament reconstruction in military servicemembers: Can we reliably restore preinjury function and stability?,鈥� Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 9(6), 2022. 3. Burks, R., Erickson, K., 鈥淛udges鈥� Commentary: Sharing Water and Hydroeltric Power,鈥� The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications, 43(4): 425-432, 2022. 4. Appleget, J., Kline, J., Burks, R., 鈥淩evamping Wargaming Education for the US Department of Defense,鈥� Center for International Maritime Security, 2020. 5. Shaw, A., Mottern, E., Parada, S., Burks, R., Dumont, G., Waterman, B., Nho, S., 鈥淟ow Rate of Return to Impact Activity Following Core Decompression for Femoral Head AVN in Military Servicemembers,鈥� Military Medicine, 184(1-2): 243-248, 2019. 6. Fox, W., Burks, R., 鈥淛udges鈥� Commentary: How Many Languages?,鈥� The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and Its Applications, 39(3), 313-320, 2018. 7. Burks, R., Sturdivant, R., 鈥淭he Goodgrant Challenge,鈥� Mathematical Modeling for the MCM/ICM Contests Volume 4. Ed. Jie Wang. Higher Education Press, 58 鈥� 95. Print, 2018. 8. Shaw, A., Edward, P., Stephen, Burks, R., Dumont, G., Waterman, B., Nho, S., 鈥淟ow Rate of Return to Impact Activity Following Core Decompression for Femoral Head AVN in Military Servicemembers,鈥� Military Medicine, usy163, 2018. 9. Greaver, B., Raabe, L., Fox, W., Burks, R., 鈥淐ARVER 2.0: Integrating the Analytical Hierarchy Process鈥檚 multi-attribute decision-making weighting scheme for a center of gravity vulnerability analysis for US Special Operations Forces,鈥� The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 15(1), 111-120, 2018. 10. Appleget, J., Cameron, F., Burks, R., Kline, J., 鈥淲argaming at the 黑料吃瓜网,鈥� CSIAC Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems, 4(3), 18-23, 2016. 11. Waterman, B., Arroyo, W., Heida, K., Burks, R., Pallis, M., 鈥淪LAP Repairs With Combined Procedures Have Lower Failure Rate Than Isolated Repairs in a Military Population,鈥� 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 黑料吃瓜网 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 鈥淎cademic Diplomacy鈥�. 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.  

Sean Everton
Professor
Expertise: Social Networks, Dark Networks, Terrorism, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Sociology, Stanford University, 2007
sfeverto@nps.edu
鈥�831-656-2709鈥�
Sean Everton is a Professor in the Defense Analysis Department and the Co-Director of the CORE (Common Operational Research Environment) Lab at the 黑料吃瓜网 (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 (An谩lisis de Redes Sociales). PUBLICATIONS 2023. 鈥淎merican Civil Religion in the Era of Donald Trump.鈥� Forthcoming in Religions 14. 2022. An谩lisis de Redes Sociales. Lima, Peru: Escuela Superior de Guerra del Ej茅rcito (with Christopher Callaghan and Augusto 脕lvarez Torrez). 2022. 鈥淎 Network Analysis of Twitter鈥檚 Crackdown on the QAnon Conversation.鈥� Journal of Social Structure. 23(1): 4-27: https://sciendo.com/article/10.21307/joss-2022-002 (with Daniel Cunningham). 2022. 鈥淗istorical and Comparative Research on Social Diffusion: Mechanisms, Methods, and Data.鈥� Social Science History 46(2):431-472 (with Steven Pfaff). 2020. 鈥淗omegrown Terrorism: A Social Network Analysis of a Minnesota ISIS Cell.鈥� 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. 鈥淗iding in Plain Sight.鈥� Nature Human Behaviour 2:115-116. doi: 10.1038/s41562-018-0299-2. 2017. 鈥淪ocial Media Exploitation by Covert Networks: A Case Study of ISIS.鈥� Communications of the Association for Information Systems 1(5):97-120 (with Lee A. Freeman and Robert Schroeder). 2016. 鈥淪ocial Networks and Religious Violence.鈥� 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). 鈥淏rokers and Key Players in the Internationalization of the FARC.鈥� 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

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, 鈥渟erious鈥� games on terrorism and counterterrorism. In 2014, he was the recipient of NPS鈥檚 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. 鈥淓ducation is the Technology the Navy Needs Most,鈥� (with Todd Lyons) Proceedings July 2020. 鈥淧ushing the Envelope of Pedagogical Gaming: Dark Networks,鈥� PS: Political Science and Politics, Vol. 50, No. 4, 2017. 鈥淎 Theory of Terrorist Leadership (and its Consequences for Leadership Targeting鈥� Terrorism and Political Violence, 2014. 鈥淗ow Terrorists Move Money: An Introduction,鈥� with Moyara Ruehsen, Perspectives on Terrorism, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2013. 鈥淭he Sources of Terrorist Financing: Theory and Typology,鈥� Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 34, No. 6, June 2011. 鈥淧athways to Terror: Finding Patterns Prior to an Attack,鈥� with David Tucker, and Steffen Merten, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2010. 鈥淒emocracy, Al-Qaeda, and the Causes of Terrorism: A Strategic Analysis of U.S. Policy,鈥� Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 31, No. 1, January 2008. 鈥淏alancing National Security and Civil Liberties,鈥� roundtable of six scholars, Focus on Law Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, Spring 2007. 鈥淭errorism and Civil Liberties in the United States: How to Have Both Freedom and Security,鈥� Democracy and Security, Vol. 2, No. 2, July-December 2006.

Dr. Scott Gartner
Professor of Defense Analysis (2021-Current)
Provost and Chief Academic Officer (2021 to 2024)
Expertise: Defense Analysis, National Security Policy, Deterrence, Irregular Warfare
Ph.D., Political Science, The University of Michigan, 1992
scott.gartner@nps.edu
831-656-3754
Scott Sigmund Gartner is a Professor within the Defense Analysis Department at the U.S. 黑料吃瓜网 and an affiliate of Penn State School of International Affairs. Gartner鈥檚 interests focus on national and international security, counter-terrorism, cyber security, international conflict mediation and policy assessment. He was previously the 16th Provost, Vice President, and Chief Academic Officer of the 黑料吃瓜网. Prior to joining the U.S. 黑料吃瓜网, Gartner was the Director of the Penn State School of International Affairs and taught classes in national security, conflict management, international affairs, foreign policy and research design. Gartner's over fifty academic publications include books such as: Costly Calculations: A Theory of War, Casualties and Politics,  Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan, Strategic Assessment in War, International Conflict Mediation: New Approaches and Findings, and The Historical Statistics of the United States, in addition to articles in top journals in political science, sociology, international affairs, history, military intelligence, public policy, law, international negotiations, and communications. His honors include the Jefferson award for the best government resource, the RUSA Outstanding Reference Award, Booklist Editor's Choice Award, Library Journal Best Reference Award, History News Network Book of the Month and the American Political Science Association's best policy thesis award. Gartner鈥檚 research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, The National CounterTerrorism Center, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Taiwan Foundation, and the Sloan foundation. He is past president of the International Studies Association (West) and served as a Senior Advisor for the Net Assessment of Violent Non-State Actors at the National CounterTerrorism Center. Gartner鈥檚 op-ed columns have been published in The Diplomat, The Huffington Post, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, and many other outlets. Professor Gartner and his research have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, USA Today, Newsweek, and The Atlantic and on The History Network, MSNBC, NPR, and ABC. He is currently working on studies of 1) terrorism, 2) country digital twins, 3) decision making, and 4) performance measures as incentives.

Seth Gray
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: Defense Analysis

seth.gray@nps.edu
 

Seth Gray
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: CORE Lab
M.A. Science, Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies
seth.gray@nps.edu
Seth Gray is a Research Associate in the Defense Analysis Department鈥檚 CORE Lab at NPS. His work focuses on machine learning applications and open-source data analytics for understanding and modeling a variety of security problems. Prior to joining NPS, Seth served in several intelligence community roles and received multiple awards, including a citation from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Seth has a MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies and a MS in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. 

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. 鈥淲ith Distinction鈥� from the 黑料吃瓜网. 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. 黑料吃瓜网 (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鈥檚 Psychological Influence: Investigating Q鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥�67. Houck, S.C., Repke, M.A., Conway, L.G. III. (2017). Understanding what makes terrorist groups鈥� 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., 黑料吃瓜网. 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鈥檚 dissertation 鈥淧acific Wars鈥� won the Society for Military History鈥檚 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: 鈥淭he Not-So Pacific: Pacific Wars and the Making of U.S. Sea Power.鈥� (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming) Peer Reviewed Articles: Technology and Culture, 鈥淢an the Torpedo (Boats!): Gender and Technology in the Making of Modern Naval War鈥� (2022, Gibson Prize, 2023) Journal of Advanced Military Studies, 鈥淭he Port-Hopping War: Amphibious Operations and the War of the Pacific鈥� (2022) Comparative Strategy, 鈥淭aking the Modern System to Sea鈥� (2022) Journal of Military History, 鈥淭he War of the Pacific, Technology and U.S. Naval Development: An International History of Regional War鈥� (2018, Moncado/Vandervort Prize, 2019) Intelligence and National Security, 鈥淕eospatial Intelligence and the U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842): Reframing the History of Naval Intelligence鈥� (2018)

Timothy Jones
Faculty Associate
Expertise: Defense Analysis

timothy.jones@nps.edu
   

Amina Kator-Mubarez
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: Global ECCO Program, Security Cooperation
M.A., Security Studies (Combating Terrorism), 黑料吃瓜网, 2014
akatormu@nps.edu
Mrs. Amina Kator-Mubarez has been with the United States 黑料吃瓜网 (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). She is the Program Manager for the Global ECCO program, as well as the Executive 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 鈥淎cademic Diplomacy.鈥� 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 黑料吃瓜网 (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: Defense Analysis, 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 黑料吃瓜网 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 黑料吃瓜网. 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.

Chad Machiela
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: Special Operations, CORE Lab
M.A. Science, Naval Postgradaute School
chad.machiela@nps.edu
Chad Machiela is a retired Army Special Forces Warrant Officer with over 30 years鈥� Special Operations experience working throughout the Indo-Pacific, Central, and European Commands. He has employed CORE Laboratory methodology to build dark networks, expose dark networks, and develop civil-military resilience networks in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Mali, and Thailand. Chad holds an MS in Defense Analysis from the 黑料吃瓜网 and graduate certificates in Security and Governance from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and Project Management from Fayetteville State University.

Ryan Maness
Associate 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 黑料吃瓜网. 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鈥檚 responses to these combined foreign policy actions, cyber operations鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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: 鈥淭he Dynamics of Cyber and Cross-Domain Escalation.鈥� 2023, Submitted, Under Review. 鈥淓xpanding the Dyadic Cyber Incident and Campaign (DCID) Dataset: Cyber Conflict from 2000 to 2020.鈥� 2022, Forthcoming, Cyber Defense Review. 鈥淔ancy Bears and Digital Trolls: Cyber Strategy with a Russian Twist.鈥� Journal of Strategic Studies, 42 (2, 2019): 212-234. 鈥淗ow We Stopped Worrying about Cyber Doom and Started Collecting Data.鈥� Politics and Governance, 6 (2, 2018): 49-60. 鈥淩ethinking the Data Wheel: Automating Open-Access, Public Data on Cyber Conflict.鈥� In 2018 10th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, CyCon X: Maximizing Effects, T. Min谩rik, R. Jakschis, L. Lindstr枚m (Eds.), NATO CCD COE Publications, Tallinn, 2018. 鈥淐reating a Safe and Prosperous Cyberspace: The Path to Ise-Shima Cyber Security Norms.鈥� The Strategy Bridge, 8/2/2017. 鈥淭he Impact of Cyber Conflict on International Interactions.鈥� Armed Forces and Society 42 (2, 2016): 301-323. 鈥淭he Dynamics of Cyber Conflict between Rival Antagonists, 2001-2011.鈥� Journal of Peace Research, 51 (3, 2014): 347-360. 鈥淩ussia and the Near Abroad: Applying a Risk Barometer for War.鈥� Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 25 (2, 2012): 125-148. Book Chapters and other Journal Articles 鈥淭he Failure of Cyber War and the Promise of Operations in the Information Environment鈥� (2022): forthcoming. 鈥淭he Power of Information: Cyber Conflict in the Age of Great Power Competition,鈥� in Strategy, 7th Edition, (2022): Oxford University Press. 鈥淲hat do we know about Cyber War鈥� Vasquez/Mitchell (eds.) What do We Know about War, 3rd ed. (2021): Rowman and Littlefield. 鈥淒eath by a Thousand Cuts: Is Russia Winning the Information War with the West?鈥� 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. 鈥淎 Crisis of Trust in Transatlantic Cybersecurity Relations in the Post-Snowden Era.鈥� in The Politics of Resilience and Transatlantic Order: Enduring Crisis? Gordon Friedrichs, Sebastian Harnisch, and Cameron G. Thies (eds.), (2019): Routledge: 143-160. 鈥淭he Dynamics of Cyber Dispute Mediation and Resolution,鈥� in The Handbook on Mediating International Crises, Jonathan Wilkenfield, Kyle Beardsley, and David Quin (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishers: 350-359. 鈥淚nternational Cyber Conflict and National Security,鈥� in The Oxford Handbook of US National Security, Derek Reveron, Nikolas Gvosdev, and John Cloud (eds.), (2018): Oxford University Press. 鈥淚nternational Political Theory and Cyber Security鈥� The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, Robyn Eckersley and Chris Brown, (eds.), (2018): Oxford University Press. 鈥淒id Russia Just Hand Donald Trump the Presidency?鈥� in US Election Analysis 2016: Media, Voters and the Campaign. (2017): Eds. Darren Lillekar, Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, and Anastasia Veneti, pp. 72-73. 鈥淐ountering Russian Aggression with Sanctions: Limited Options and Self-Defeating Strategies鈥� Enduring Questions Essay Contribution to the ABC-CLIO: American Government Idea Exchange (2016). 鈥淐yber Spillover Conflicts: Transitions from Cyber Conflict to Conventional Foreign Policy Disputes?鈥� in Conflict in Cyberspace, Karsten Friis and Jens Ringsmose, Eds., (2016): Routledge. 鈥淭he Coming Cyberp PERSONAL WEBSITE   

Julia McClenon
Faculty Associate - Research
Expertise: Anthropology (Behavioral and Cultural), Sociolinguistic Analysis, Chinese Thought and Grand Strategy, Cognitive Science, Open-source China
MA, Religious Studies and Cognitive Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021
julia.mcclenon@nps.edu
Julia McClenon is a cultural and behavioral ethnographer (anthropologist) and sociolinguist, with a focus on Asia, China, and specific diaspora in Asia and America. She is an interagency civil servant with experience in both the Department of Defense and the Department of State. She was previously commissioned as a Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. diplomatic corps. For State Department, she was Chair of the Consul General's Civil-Society Working Group on Religion in China. She earned her M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara on research and teaching fellowships as a member of the cognitive science REMLab group, where she conducted ethnographic and sociolinguistic research on Chinese worldviews, calendrical systems, and CCP cultural narratives. In 2010, her team earned official commendation from the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. Julia is interested in interdisciplinary and inter-industry research opportunities. She is also available to speak at community events on cross-cultural understanding; intercultural dialogue; culture shock and reverse culture shock; her experiences as a student and diplomat in China; and emergency preparedness. She has spoken for a variety of community groups including the Unitarian Universalist Church's series on worldviews; the Great Decisions speakers series; International Relations fraternal orders; Cross-Cultural Understanding & Communication for student groups; Culture Shock for educators and international students; challenges of working overseas; and more. Separate from her role at NPS, she is Co-Host and Deputy Director of the Irregular Warfare Initiative Podcast. She is a proud volunteer of the American Red Cross. PUBLICATIONS "We're WEIRD and Our Adversaries Know It: Biases in Psychology Leave the United States Vulnerable to Cognitive Domain Operations," Modern War Institute, West Point, forthcoming 2023. "Perhaps an Other Time: an Interdisciplinary (Re)Consideration of Historical Anthropology in View of the Cognitive Science of Time, Cultural Models Theory, and the Stems and Branches Chinese Calendrical System," Journal of Cognitive Historiography, Vol. 7 No. 1-2, Equinox Publishing, 2022. "Suzhou's Gardens," Zhejiang InTouch Magazine, 2007. "This Ain't Polo's Hangzhou," Hangzhou Weekly Newspaper, 2006.

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 黑料吃瓜网 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鈥檚 degrees in National Security from the 黑料吃瓜网) 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

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Frank Wyer
Faculty Associate
 Defense Analysis
frank.wyer@nps.edu