Teacher and Learner
I have long held that the day you stop learning new things is the day they should be shoveling dirt over you.
As a way of giving back to my country and community, I continue to teach and mentor in a variety of settings.
A “free-range professor”
About Me:
I spent 32 years in the US Air Force, where I served as a pilot, flight instructor, tactician, analyst, safety officer, strategic planner, diplomat and college professor.
I hold a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma (main fields: International Relations, Public Policy, Public Administration), an MS in National Security Strategy from the National War College, an MS in Operations Research from the AF Institute of Technology, and a BS in History from the US Air Force Academy.
My doctoral dissertation has been published as a book, “Predicting War, Predicting Peace” by Lambert Academic Press.
What I Teach
I teach across the entire US Air Force’s Air University online program, including:
- Problem Solving in National Security (Air War College Capstone)
- Applied Airpower and Security Studies (Air War College)
- Airpower Studies (Online Masters Program)
- National Security Strategy (Online Masters Program)
- Research Elective on Deterrence (Online Masters Program)
- Applied National Security (Air Command & Staff College)
- Weapons of Mass Persuasion (Squadron Officers College)
What I’m Learning
On the academic side, I have been taking courses in “Artificial Intelligence” and Big Data Methods
- Machine Learning (Classification, Regression, Neural Nets, Ensemble Learning)
- Social Network Analysis
- Bayesian Nets
- Python
I have also “gotten in touch” with my creative side
- Photography
- 3D Printing
- High-Power Rocketry
Previous Teaching
In the past, (and besides teaching new pilots how to fly) I have taught both graduate and undergraduate courses on a variety of subjects, including:
Graduate
- Masters Thesis Supervision
- Advanced Statistical Methods
- Research Methods
- Air Warfare in the 21st Century
- US National Security
- Joint Warfare Planning and Implementation
- Case Studies in Joint Warfare
- Seminar in Asymmetric Warfare
- Insurgency and Revolution
- The Non-State Soldier
- Covert Action
Undergraduate
- American Federal Government
- International Relations
- Statistical Methods
- Public Administration
- US Constitution
- American History After 1865
- Homeland Security
- International Relations Theory
Useful Links
Air War College Gateway to the Internet
Congressional Research Service Reports
Presidential Directives and Executive Orders
US State Department – Foreign Relations of the United States
US State Department – Treaties and International Agreements