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Thomas Mahnken, Ph.D.

Director of External Programs at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Senior Research Professor of Strategic Studies

Based in Washington, D.C.

Background and Education

Also currently the Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College and editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies; served as U.S. deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Policy Planning, as staff director of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel's Force Structure and Personnel Sub-Panel, and on the staff of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction; was a member of the Gulf War Air Power Survey, commissioned by the Secretary of the Air Force to examine the performance of U.S. forces during the war with Iraq; was a National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University; Ph.D., international relations, SAIS
RSS

Technology and the American Way of War Since 1945 (2008); Strategic Studies: A Reader, co-editor (2007); U.S. Military Operations in Iraq: Planning, Combat and Occupation, co-editor (2007); The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia, co-editor (2004); Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel, co-editor (2003); The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes Toward the Revolution in Military Affairs, co-author (2003); Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918–1941 (2002)

  1. 2013 Spring

    Technology and War

  2. 2012 Fall

    Net Assessment

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