Mr. Harry Foster is Deputy Director of the USAF Center for Strategy and Technology at Air University where he leads research into future technologies and their implications for OSD and Air Force strategy. A member of the Grand Strategy Program faculty, he is responsible for developing and leading the Warfighting Practium syllabus designed to expose students to emergent strategic issues and resulting defense challenges. A former Air Force Colonel, Mr Foster flew F-16s, B-2s and B-1s in combat, served on the Air Staff as a CHECKMATE branch chief, and led USCENTCOM’s Combined Air Operations Center Strategy Division. He holds masters degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School, Marine Command and Staff College, the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, and Air War College.
Dr. Bert Frandsen is an associate professor in the Air War College’s Warfighting Department. He is the Exercise Director for the college’s capstone wargame, Global Challenge, a one-week strategic decision making exercise conducted at the Air Force Wargaming Institute each spring. He is also responsible for Block V, Joint Operations Planning, of the college’s Warfighting Course. He teaches the Strategy and Warfighting courses, and assists with Joint Land Aerospace and Sea Simulation (JLASS) and America’s Air Force electives. Dr. Frandsen is a historian of technology specializing in aerospace technology and war. His publications include Hat in the Ring: The Birth of American Air Power in the Great War, published by Smithsonian Books. His article, “America’s First Air-Land Battle,” won Air and Space Power Journal’s Ira Eaker Award for the top article of 2003. His research interests are joint operations planning and joint lessons learned from OEF and OIF.
