• 1992 Squadron Officer School, Distinguished Graduate, Maxwell AFB, Ala. • 1995 Master of Business Administration in Aviation Management, Embry- Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Fla. • 1999 Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Distinguished Graduate, Quantico, Va. Gen. Rawls entered the Air Force in 1992 as a distinguished graduate of the University of Kentucky, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He has earned a BS in Business Administration, a Masters in Business Administration (MBA), a Masters in Military History, a Masters in Theater Operations/Operational Planning, and a Masters in Strategic Studies. David Wayne Allvin graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1986. The National War College (NWC) was officially established on July 1, 1946, as an upgraded replacement for the Army-Navy Staff College, which operated from June 1943 to July 1946.The college was one of James Forrestal's favorite causes.. Professor Wilbeck was commissioned a 2LT of Armor in 1989 and has served in operational and planning positions from the Squadron/Battalion to the Division and Joint Level. Colonel Kavlick graduated from the University of California at Davis in 1994 and was commissioned a Distinguished Graduate from the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1995. Colonel Turner received his PhD in Political Science from Texas A&M University. She completed graduate studies in the United Kingdom at the Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University in 2004. She was the commander of the Enterprise Operations Squadron at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, VA from 2013-2015. He has served as a Minuteman combat crew commander, evaluator and instructor. The Air War College online program is part of the eGraduate School at Air University. Other assignments include Political-Military Affairs specialist, Chief of Safety, and Inspector General, and SECAF/CSAF Commanders Action Group. He commanded 1-37 Field Artillery, 3BCT/2d Infantry Division at Fort Lewis Washington and Diyala, Iraq. He also served as the Deputy Commander of the US National Intelligence Center in Bosnia, the Deputy for the Counter Terrorism Division at RAF Molesworth and the Caucasus Intelligence Team Chief. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from Texas A & M University and Master Degrees in Aeronautical Science, Military Operational Art and Science, and National Resource Strategy. His responsibilities included leading two branches with 15 joint and civilian staff officers. Colonel Frichtl has completed Air Command and Staff College, is a distinguished graduate of National Security Management Course and has earned his Master of Science degree in Systems Management from University of Southern Cali-fornia. .active { Mr Samuels joined the Air War College faculty in 2017, and he is the Director of the Grand Strategy Seminar. Col Niki Lindhorst - Air Force Space Command Chair. He most recently served as the Commander, 18th Military Police Brigade, Vilseck, Germany. Our alumni go on to take places on the global stage as strategic leaders in military service, in government, education, or business. Starting with Google or Yahoo is a just that, a start--every research project must go beyond that and our library fills that gap. Colonel (Dr.) Paul H. Nelson, MD, MPH, is the Air Force Surgeon General's Chair to Air University. He served Senior Fellowships at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies and Korea Institute for Defense Analysis. Previously, he served as Naval Forces Chief of Staff and Liaison Officer to U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida. He joined the AWC faculty in the spring of 2018 after more than 28 years of service in the United States Army. While assigned to 10th Mountain, he deployed to Afghanistan as the CJTF – 10 CJ1 for Regional Command – East, Bagram Airfield. He has completed staff tours as aide to Commander, Naval Education and Training Command and as strategic analyst and branch head at NATO’s Allied Command Transformation, where he coordinated NATO’s futures studies program. CAPT Bill Cox is an instructor in the Department of International Security Studies. Lt Col Kathleen Crimmins is the Director, Executive Leader Feedback Program (ELFP), Air War College (AWC), Maxwell Air Force base, Alabama. Check their web site for lists of events and training: https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/TLC/. His research interests include: leadership, moral courage, professionalism, ethics, moral injury, organizational culture, and combat airpower. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the Department of Government at Cornell University with a specialty in international relations. Please link in via that site and get connected to alumni. She is responsible to the commander for the operational utilization, readiness, assignment, morale and welfare of 15,000 combat-ready personnel across three main operating bases, delivering combat airpower, command and control, personnel recovery, surveillance and rapid mobility. Col. Thomas Skrocki, Deputy Department Chair. 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 a graduate of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University; Air Command and Staff College, Air University; and Squadron Officer School, Air University. He most recently served as the Director, Soldier and Support and Support Systems Evaluation directorate for the US Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. His last joint assignment was as the Deputy U.S. Liaison office at the U.S. Embassy, United Arab Emirates responsible for foreign military sales, Theater Security Cooperation activities, and enabling Coalition operations. Colonel McCarthy is a Command Pilot with more than 3,360 flying hours, including 1,096 combat hours in the F-15E and A-10C supporting Operations SOUTHERN WATCH, ENDURING FREEDOM, IRAQI FREEDOM, and INHERENT RESOLVE. 2001 Distinguished graduate, Master of Operational Art and Science, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Ala. 2005 Outstanding graduate, Air War College, by correspondence 2007 Distinguished graduate, Master of National Security and Strategic Studies, Naval War College, Newport, R.I. His essay was published as part of a fairly comprehensive list of alumni in 2007 which included an alphabetical directory of phone numbers, addresses, and emails for as many students as could be found. Colonel Richard W. (Rick) Pelham, USA, is a Logistics branch officer and an instructor in the Department of Leadership and Warfighting at the Air War College. Mr. Madden previously served as the Deputy Director for Strategic Assessments, Target Intelligence, Plans and Exercise in U.S. He has served in leadership roles in combat operations in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, and the Libya Campaign. He holds a Master’s in Education from Montana State University as well as a Master’s in Joint Information Operations from Naval Postgraduate School. His areas of interest and expertise are history of technology and military history, particularly space and World War I, as well as airpower history, theory and doctrine. He is a graduate of Command and General Staff College and Air War College. Dr. Geis retired as a Colonel from the U.S. Air Force in 2011. Colonel Budjenska served in the G1 section and as the Inspector General for United States Army South, Fort Sam Houston. .topnav.responsive .icon { See below.). He is currently revising his manuscript on European foreign and security policies in the 1930s for publication. Colonel Jeremey Turner is an instructor in the Department of International Security Studies where he teaches National Security Decision Making and Global Security. His area of research and expertise centers on the coercive use of force; the interaction between history, culture, and foreign policy; and NATO and European security issues, particularly those related to Germany, Scandinavia, and Western Europe. Research topics: effects of environment on toxicity; organizational impact of culture and climate; police in counter insurgency operations. 2015 Distinguished Graduate, National War College, Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C. in International Relations from Troy State University. EDUCATION Finally, in the Theater Strategy and Campaigning course students synthesize Campaign Design, Theater Campaign Plans, and the Joint Operational Planning Process through which combatant commanders set the military conditions for attaining national and coalition objectives as both a supported and supporting instrument of power. He has also recently served as the N5 (Future Plans) Officer for the U.S. Third Fleets Expeditionary Strike Group – Three. Maxwell AFB, AL 36112, AWC Student Operations (Resident Program), AWC Director, Academic Support/Scheduling, AWC Distance Learning (eSchool of Graduate PME). Before completing an Air Force Institute of Technology fellowship at the University of North Carolina, during which he studied Political Science with a focus on International Relations, he was the LeMay Center Director of Doctrine Development. He teaches National Security Decision Making, Global Security, and Regional Security Studies (Middle East) and has previously taught courses on irregular warfare and the causes of war. Prior to this deployment, he served as the Director of Strategic Plans and Business Transformation (G5) for the Alabama National Guard. He is a United States Military Academy graduate with a degree in Computer Science Engineering, as well as holding a Masters in Strategic Studies from the Air War College. Dr. Zhang is the author of over twenty articles and chapters on Chinese military involvement in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and Sino-Soviet relations during these conflicts. He has served as a Professor at the Air War College on the faculty for over thirty years in a variety of roles. Colonel Budjenska’s major deployments include: three to Afghanistan, Haiti following the earthquake of 2010, and the Balkans. He has published Choosing War (Oxford U Press, 2016), Genocide, Airpower and Intervention (Air U. Commissioned after graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in 1988, Mr. Lewis was a career fighter pilot with over 3,500 flying hours, including over 2000 in the F-15 with 250 hours in combat. Later, he completed a M.B.A. at California State University, a M.A. The TLC is located on the 2nd floor of the Fairchild Research & Information Center at Air University, Maxwell AFB, Montgomery AL. He holds Master’s degrees from The George Washington University, Air University, U.S. Army War College and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School. She received her Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Southern Mississippi following an internship at Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, TX. Dr. Douglas C. Peifer, Deputy Department Chair. Brig. Mr Samuels was a special operations aviator with over 3600 hours in several aircraft, and he served in multiple combat in operations from Just Cause to Iraqi Freedom. The foremost college for air, space, and cyberspace education and thought–preparing the world’s best joint senior leaders. Dr. John P. Geis II, Colonel, USAF (ret.). Christopher Hemmer is a Professor of International Security Studies and the Dean of the Air War College. Naval War College and worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office. He has published articles in Diplomatic History, Joint Force Quarterly, and the International Journal of Naval History. in Education from Southern Illinois University and an M.S. His areas of interest and expertise include airpower theory and doctrine, operations, postwar cooperation, alliances, strategic partnership, political unification, and reconciliation. Col Drake has held various staff positions at the squadron, group, wing and MAJCOM levels. He has served in units responsible for combat operations, formal training, test and evaluation, international affairs, and acquisitions. background-color: #ddd; His Major assignments include G1, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), Ft. During his five year assignment within the AWACS community he participated in Operation Desert Storm, Provide Comfort, and Southern Watch among others.