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Mr. Richard B. Sanks, Defense Intelligence Agency, is the DIA Representative to Air University and is a member of the faculty of the Air War College in the Warfighting Department. He is a Senior Intelligence Officer with 24 years of progressive military and civilian experience in support of operations at the tactical, operational and strategic level. He has subject matter expertise in ISR Research and Education, Crisis Management operations, Indications and Warning. He is a retired USAF Intelligence Officer. Immediately prior to retirement, he served as an Assistant Deputy Director of Intelligence (ADDI) at the National Joint Operations and Intelligence Center (NJOIC) at the National Military Command Center located in the Pentagon. He provided direct crisis intelligence support to the Secretary of Defense, CJCS, and Department of Defense senior leadership. He supervised regional and functional analysts in current intelligence, indications and warning operations to ensure worldwide monitoring of all-source intelligence. He oversaw analysis of potential threats to U.S. national interest and ensured timely warning to the President, Secretary of Defense, CJCS and COCOMs. He produced and disseminated substantive crisis intelligence. He has completed the Air War College in-resident program and was awarded a Master of Strategic Studies (MSS, 2011) from Air University. He has completed the full-time Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence (MSSI, 2004) from the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC). He also has completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA, 1999) from Troy University. He is a recipient of the Director of National Intelligence designation as an Intelligence Community Officer (ICO, 2009).

Mr. Edward Schmidt is the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration Advisor to Air University. He is a retired Air Force Colonel and is a graduate of the Army War College, the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, the United States Air Force Academy, and many other professional military education schools. He has Masters Degrees in Airpower Arts and Science as well as Business Administration. While on active duty, Mr. Schmidt served as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) crew member, instructor, and evaluator and later taught at the Combat Crew Training Squadron. He also analyzed and refined nuclear war plans while at the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff, conducted analysis for nuclear force structure planning with the Air Force Studies and Analysis Agency, and developed theater missile defense and early warning concepts for U.S. European Command and allies. Mr. Schmidt finished his active duty career as a missile squadron commander and then as the Air Force Element Commander within the Department of Energy. Following retirement in 2005, Mr. Schmidt served as the Director for the Office of Nuclear Weapon Surety and Quality with the National Nuclear Security Administration. He is currently the Senior Technical Advisor to the Assistant Deputy Administrator for Stockpile Management, who is responsible for providing the Nation with a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapon stockpile.

Dr. Barry Schneider has served as a professor at the Air War College since September 1993 and Director of the USAF Counterproliferation Center since 1998. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (1974). He currently serves in the AWC Department of Warfighting. He is the author of Future War and Counterproliferation: US Military Responses to NBC Threats and has edited and contributed to ten other books. He has authored over 160 articles, book chapters, and contract studies in his career. He has previously worked as a Foreign Affairs Officer (GS-14) and Public Affairs Officer at the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (GS-15), has served as a congressional staff member, defense analyst for several defense contractors, and has taught at a number of other institutions of higher learning including Wabash College, U. of Maryland, Purdue, Indiana U., and American University. His areas of expertise include nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical warfare threats and countermeasures. Dr. Schneider also specializes in analyzing leadership profiles and strategic cultures of potential adversary states and terrorist organizations.

Dr. John Schuessler is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy at the Air War College. He received his PhD in 2007 from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, specializing in international relations. Before coming to the Air War College, he was a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Committee on International Relations, also at the University of Chicago, as well as a Research Fellow with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. His principal research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations theory, security studies, and diplomatic history. He is currently writing on why leaders have resorted to deception to sell wars to their publics. His article on the topic, "The Deception Dividend: FDR's Undeclared War," appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of International Security. He has also co-authored (with Sebastian Rosato) a forthcoming article on “A Realist Foreign Policy for America,” which will appear in the December 2011 issue of Perspectives on Politics.

Dr. Jim Seroka has been a member of the AWC faculty since AY 2006 and currently holds a joint appointment as a visiting professor with the Air War College and as a Professor of Political Science at Auburn University. He has published extensively on political developments in Eastern Europe, particularly the Western Balkans, and his current research focuses on political and security issues in the Western Balkans. Dr. Seroka holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a PhD. In Political Science from Michigan State University. His areas of expertise include Eastern Europe and the post-communist transformation, security issues in the Western Balkans, and U.S. foreign and security policy decision-making.

Mr Allen Sexton is Deputy Director of Education and Research for the National Space Studies Center. He has taught space-related courses at Air University since his retirement as Dean of the Air Command and Staff College nonresident program in 1993. Mr Sexton teaches space electives, advises students on research projects at AWC and ACSC, lectures on space at AU schools, and supports space planning and execution in wargames. His active duty assignments were in missile operations and maintenance, space systems acquisition and operations, and professional military education. Mr Sexton earned master’s degrees in history (Syracuse U) and education (Wichita State U), and did post-master’s work in computer science, education, and social sciences. He completed Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, Air War College, and National Defense University’s National Security Management program.

Colonel Eric E. Smith, US Army, is assigned to the Department of Strategy where he serves as an Instructor for the Strategy & Leadership core courses and an elective entitled Command and Conscience. He joined the Air War College faculty in May 2007. As an Army Aviator and Logistician he has served in numerous command and staff positions to include Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, Company Commander, Battalion Operations Officer, Battalion Commander, and Deputy Brigade Commander. He is qualified in the UH-1H, EH-1H, OH-58A, EH-60A, UH-60A, and UH-60L helicopters. COL Smith's assignments and deployments include CONUS, Germany, Korea, OPERATION DESERT SHIELD and STORM, and OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM. His unit assignments include 1st and 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Armored Division, 82nd Airborne Division, 19th Theater Support Command, and 12th Aviation Brigade. COL Smith holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management from North Georgia College, a Masters of Science in Management (Logistics Concentration) from Florida Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Strategic Studies from the Air War College. He is a graduate of Logistics Executive Development Course, US Army Command and General Staff College, and US Air Force Air War College.

Colonel Jeffrey J. Smith, US Air Force, is the Chair of the International Security Studies Department. He joined the Air War College faculty in August 2010 following completion of his doctorate degree at Washington State University. While completing his doctorate, he studied International Relations, Global Security, and Comparative Politics and his dissertation research focused on future USAF organizational change. He is an Air Force pilot with over 2500 flying hours and has served in numerous command and staff positions to include three squadron commands, USAF mathematics professor, and Deputy Director of Concepts Strategy and Wargaming Division (Skunk Works), Headquarters United States Air Force, Pentagon, Washington DC. He has operational experience in the Middle East and Africa and has earned three masters degrees and a PhD. Col Smith attended Air Command and Staff College in 2001 and the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies in 2002. His professional and academic interests are in USAF organizational change, international relations, US foreign policy, global security challenges, and terrorism.

Dr. David S. Sorenson is Professor of International Security Studies. Dr. Sorenson received his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and his BA and MA from California State University at Long Beach. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Colorado at Denver, Denison University, and the Mershon Center at Ohio State University. He is currently writing a book on civil-military relations under contract with the University of Michigan Press, and has previously published Lebanon: Global Security Watch. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers (2010), Interpreting the Modern Middle East, (edited), (Westview Press, 2010), The Process and Politics of Defense Acquisition: A Reference Book (Praeger Publishers, 2008), An Introduction to the Modern Middle East (Westview Press, 2008), Military Base Closure: A Reference Book (Praeger Publishers, 2007), Shutting Down the Cold War: The Politics of Military Base Closure (St. Martin's Press, 1998), and The Politics of Strategic Aircraft Modernization, (Praeger, 1995). He has also co-edited The Politics of International Aircraft Collaboration (London: Ashgate Publishers, 2000), and The Politics of Peacekeeping (Frank Cass Publishers, 2005), and numerous articles and book chapters on Middle East politics, defense budget politics, and national security affairs. Professor Sorenson was AWC Associate Dean for Academic Programs (2000-2003), and has served as Chair of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and Chair of the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association.

Colonel Charles F. Spencer, Jr. is a Professor in the International and Security Studies department where he teaches National Security Decision Making and Global Security. He joined the Air War College in June 2011, and has command and staff experience at Squadron, Wing, MAJCOM, Joint and COCOM levels. His recent assignments include: Vice Commander, 89 Airlift Wing, Andrews AFB, Maryland; Deputy Director Mobility Forces CENTAF, Qatar, and at 7 AF, Osan, Korea; and Professor at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Colonel Spencer has served in Operations SAFE HARBOR, RESTORE HOPE, PROVIDE COMFORT, PROVIDE PROMISE, VIGILANT WARRIOR, ENDURING FREEDOM, IRAQI FREEDOM and NEW DAWN. He received his commission from Officer Training School in 1986 after graduating from the University of Missouri-Rolla with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He holds Masters Degrees from the Naval War College (with Distinction), Air Command and Staff College and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Colonel Spencer is a Command Pilot with 6000 hours in the C-12F, C-141B, C-137A/B, C-32A, C-40B and C-37A/B.

Dr. George J. Stein, is the director of the Cyberspace and Information Operations Study Center, as well as teaching in the Department of Warfighting, Air War College. He writes and teaches courses on information warfare, classic Chinese strategic thought, European security issues, and future strategies. Before joining Air War College in 1991, he was on the faculty of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University and Miami's European Center in Luxembourg. Recent publications include: "Learning with Sun Tzu," in: Bosch, J.M.J., H.A.M. Luiijf & A.R. Mollema (eds.), NL Arms: Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies, (NL: Tilburg University Press, 1999), pp.21-36; "Information Warfare: Words Matter," in: Stocker, G. & C. Schöpf (eds.), InfoWar, (New York & Vienna: Springer, 1998); pp.51-59; US Information Warfare - Jane's Special Report, (VA: Jane's Information Group, 1996); "Information Attack: Information Warfare in 2025," Air University. 2025 Study: Power and Influence, (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1996; pp. 91-115, (White Papers; v. Vol.3, Book1); "Information Warfare," Airpower Journal (Spring 1995); and "Information War - Cyberwar - Netwar," in: Schneider & Grinter (eds.), Battlefield of the Future, (AU Press, 1995). Professor Stein was awarded the Meritorious Civilian Service medal, twice, for his contributions to the USAF Chief-of-Staff's studies Spacecast 2020 and Air Force 2025. He received his M.A. at Penn State and Ph.D. at Indiana University.

Lt Col (Dr.) James A. Stephenson joined the Air War College faculty in the Leadership and Warfighting Department in July 2011 and serves as the Director, Human Performance and Leadership Enhancement at the Spaatz Center. His most recent assignments include Commander, 23 Medical Support Squadron, Moody AFB, GA; Director, Base Medical Services, RAF Menwith Hill, UK; Chief, Psychological Applications, 24 Special Tactics Squadron, Pope AFB, NC; and Chief, Behavioral Health Services, Incirlik AB, Turkey. Since 2001, Lt Col Stephenson has deployed in support of operations ENDURING and IRAQI FREEDOM. He has worked extensively in the area of elite Special Operations Forces Assessment and Selection Programs; Personnel Recovery and Reintegration of Hostages/Detained Personnel; Counter Insurgency Operations; and Foreign Internal Defense. Lt Col Stephenson received a direct commission through the Air Force Clinical Psychologist Residency program. He has a BA in Psychology from the University of Portland, an MAR in Religion from Yale University, and a Doctor of Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology.

see privacy and security notice .. reviewed/updated 30 Nov 2011 .. FOIA