Teaching
U.S. Naval War College
The National Security Affairs (NSA) Department’s course of study in Theater Security Decision Making (TSDM) is a graduate-level survey of contemporary security studies that draws from international relations, regional studies, foreign policy analysis, and decision making. The course is designed to develop regional awareness and strategic perspectives while fostering critical thinking and analytic skills. At the end of TSDM, each small group studies the challenges and priorities of one of the six geographic combatant commands.
Middlebury Institute for International Studies
Fall 2018
The counterterrorism seminar is designed to address the challenges of terrorism in the current and future global security environment in a participatory format. Specifically, the seminar briefly reviews the threat terrorism poses to liberal democratic states, citizens and policymakers, then explores how liberal democracies can best predict, prevent, preempt and, if necessary, directly combat terrorism and terrorists. The course will assess the history and future of terrorism; analyze terrorist and state strategies; and then focus on the tools to fight terrorism - military, intelligence, police, diplomatic institutions and approaches; the "targets" of counterterrorism - leaders, finances, safe havens, networks, ideologies; and the technologies used to counter terrorism - drones, social media, and more. Case studies and simulations will be used throughout the course.
Royal Danish Defense College
Institute of Military Operations; Copenhagen, Denmark
Visiting Professor, Military Operations Course
Fall 2021
The goal of this course is to examine how operational concepts are developed internationally and how they affect American, Danish, and NATO doctrine and ability to conduct effective military operations on the military-strategic and operational level of war. To answer this question, students are introduced to relevant doctrinal and theoretical concepts, which are used to analyze operational concepts, doctrinal developments, and concrete campaigns, as well as the specific challenges that Denmark faces in these processes.