January 10, 2005
Biographical Statements
Thomas Donnelly is a resident fellow in defense and security policy at AEI. He is the author of Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Strategic Assessment (AEI Press, July 2004) and AEI’s National Security Outlook. Before coming to AEI, he served as the director of strategic communications and initiatives at Lockheed Martin and as deputy executive director of the Project for the New American Century. From 1995 to 1999, he was the policy group director, as well as a professional staff member, for the Committee on National Security (now the Committee on Armed Services) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Donnelly has also been the executive director of The National Interest, editor of the Army Times, and deputy editor of Defense News.
Colonel Robert Killebrew, U.S. Army (retired), is a private consultant in national defense issues. He is a retired Army infantry colonel with service in U.S. Army Special Forces and airborne units and has taught national and military strategy at the Army War College. While on active duty, he inaugurated the “Army after Next” project that became the Army transformation wargame series. Since retirement, he has served on the Hart-Rudman Commission on national defense in the 21st century, as well as other Defense Department and private studies of national defense issues, and has consulted for the military services and defense industries. He has written extensively in a variety of publications on emerging defense issues, most recently in the Washington Post on the political future of Islamic radicalism.
Brian McAllister Linn is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center where he is writing a book on the American way of war. He joined the faculty of Texas A&M University in 1989 and is now professor of history there. He is the author of three books, including The Philippine War, 1899–1902 and Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902–1940, both of which received the Society for Military History’s Distinguished Book Award. He has been an Olin Fellow at Yale University, the Susan Dyer Peace Fellow at the Hoover Institute, the Harold K. Johnson Professor at the U.S. Army War College, and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow. He has written a dozen book chapters and articles, including “The American Way of War Revisited.”
Steven Metz is chairman of the Regional Strategy and Planning Department and a research professor for national security affairs at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. He has been with SSI since 1993. He has also been on the faculty of the Air War College, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and several universities. He has been an adviser to political organizations, campaigns, and commissions; served on many national security policy task forces; testified in both houses of Congress; and spoken on military and security issues around the world. He is the author of more than ninety publications on world politics, national security policy, and military strategy. He first began visiting Iraq in April 2003 and is currently writing a book on the insurgency.
Kalev Sepp is assistant professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He coauthored an official study of U.S. Army special operations in the Afghanistan expedition and, most recently, has served in Iraq as a consultant on intelligence operations and theater strategy. He is a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer who served in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America for twenty-four years. He has direct experience in counterinsurgency, urban warfare, psychological operations and civil affairs, drug interdiction, interagency coordination, nuclear-chemical-biological defense, and strategy formulation. As an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy, he taught courses on insurgency and civil wars and military and international history. He was also a resident scholar at Harvard University and is a commentator on military affairs on National Public Radio. His current research interests include counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, unconventional warfare, special operations, and “small wars.”
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