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Colonel Deborah A. Cafarelli is the Air Force Materiel Command Chair to Air University. She joined the Air War College faculty in the Department of Warfighting in July 2009. As a Developmental/Flight Test Engineer, she has served in a variety of acquisition and staff positions at the Air Force Phillips Laboratory, the Air Force Flight Development Test Center, the Defense Intelligence Agency (OPERATIONS DESERT FOX and ALLIED FORCE), and the Air Staff. She has also commanded the 633rd Electronic Systems Squadron (JSTARS). Col Cafarelli holds a B.A. in Physics from North Central College, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, and masters degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Military Operational Art and Science from the Air Command and Staff College, and in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces (ICAF). She is also a graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School.

Colonel Jim Campbell currently serves as an instructor in the Department of Warfighting. Before arriving at Air War College in 2006, he served as the G4 (Logistics), Multinational Division – North and 101st Airborne Division at FOB Speicher, Iraq in 2005-2006. A career Army Logistician, he commanded the 526 Forward Support Battalion (FSB), 101st Airborne Division during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003-2004. COL Campbell also has operational experience in Bosnia-Herzegovina during Stabilization Force (SFOR) 4, Search and Recovery Operations in SE Asia and nation building exercises in Central America. He has served in numerous staff positions at the Battalion, Brigade and Division level. COL Campbell is a 1984 graduate of The Citadel and holds a Masters of Arts in Economics from The University of Oklahoma and Masters of Strategic Studies from the Air War College.

CAPT William (Bill) Thomas Carney is assigned to the Department of International Security Studies where he serves as a Professor for the National Security and Decision Making and Global Security core courses. A Surface Warfare Officer with 27 years of service, Bill has over 13 years at sea on various surface ships. When not at sea he has commanded two shore activities, was assigned to the American Embassy, U.A.E. as the Naval Liaison Officer, and facilitated chemical, biological and radiological warfare training for prospective Commanding Officers. Bill obtained his Naval Commission at Jacksonville University, and has Masters Degrees in Information Systems Management and Strategic Resource Management, with concentrations in acquisition, international relations and information operations. Bill’s most recent tour was at the Pentagon as the Chief Information Officer for the United States Navy Reserve.

Dr. Christopher Carr joined the AWC in 1998. Previously he was Senior Researcher, Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues, University of Denver. From 1986-8, 1989-93 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science, US Air Force Academy. He has written articles on arms transfer policy and most recently contributed a chapter to Arms Control: Cooperative Security in a Changing Environment. His current research focuses on human insecurity in heavily weaponized communities, for which he has received support from the Institute for National Security Studies, US Air Force. Dr Carr holds a B.A. from the University of Lancaster, UK and a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics (LSE). His areas of expertise include sub-state conflict, light weapons proliferation, civil conflict in Africa, 'Kalashnikov cultures', arms control, international organized crime.

Colonel (ret) John R. Carter, Jr. is the Director of XA, Education Support Squadron, Spaatz Center for Officer Education. He previously was the special assistant to the Commander of the Spaatz Center for Officer Education. He has served in a variety of operational assignments, accumulating more than 3400 flight hours in the O-2, A-10 and F-16. He commanded the 354th Fighter Squadron, an A-10 squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, served as Commandant of the Air Force Weapons School at Nellis AFB, NV, Vice Commander of the 51st Fighter Wing, Osan AB, Korea and served as the Vice Commandant of the Air War College for three years prior to assuming his current duties. His staff assignments include director of the Commander's Action Group at Air Combat Command and division chief for Space requirements on the Air Staff. Col Carter holds a B.S. degree from Duke University, and Masters degrees from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS). He is the author of Airpower and the Cult of the Offensive, a CADRE Paper published by Air University Press. His professional military education includes SOS by correspondence, Air Command and Staff College in residence, SAASS, Air War College by correspondence and a year as a national security fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Dr. Mark Conversino joined the faculty of the Air War College in 2002 following his retirement from active duty with the Air Force. He has taught previously at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies and in the Department of History at the US Air Force Academy. While on active duty, Dr. Conversino served as Commander, 93d Maintenance Squadron, in support of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft. He also held various aircraft maintenance assignments in the Strategic Air Command, Air Mobility Command and Air Combat Command. Prior to joining the Air War College faculty, he was in a Joint assignment at the Defense Logistics Agency, working on the personal staff of the Agency's director. He is the author of Fighting With The Soviets: The Failure of Operation Frantic, 1944-1945, University Press of Kansas, 1997, several chapters in edited works and numerous articles in defense-related journals. From 1998 to 2000, he was a Permanent Guest Lecturer at Squadron Officer School. Dr. Conversino is a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Command and Staff College and a graduate of the Air War College by seminar. He holds a B.A. from Eastern Kentucky University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. His areas of interest and expertise are military history (particularly World War II), logistics, Soviet and Eastern Bloc history and politics, and airpower history, theory and doctrine.

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