Editorial Board Member
Retired US Army Colonel
Troxell is a former research professor of national security and military strategy with the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. He also served at the War College as a professor of national security affairs with the Center for Strategic Leadership and as the director of national security studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy.
His Army assignments included: War Plans Division, Department of the Army; force planner for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements; and chief, Engineer Plans Division, Combined Forces Command, Seoul, South Korea. Other military assignments included command of the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, and service with the 1st, 43rd, and 293rd Engineer Battalions.
Troxell earned a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy in 1974 and a master’s from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, in 1982. He graduated from the US Army War College and served as the General George S. Patton Chair of Operational Research and Analysis and was recognized as a War College Distinguished Fellow in 2018.
Recent publications include “Geoeconomics,” Military Review, January–February 2018 and coeditor of Avoiding the Trap: U.S. Strategy and Policy for Competing in the Asia-Pacific Beyond the Rebalance, February 2018. Published book chapters include: “Presidential Decision Directive-56: A Glass Half Full,” in The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare; “Sizing the Military in the Post–Cold War Era,” in United States Post–Cold War Defence Interests: A Review of the First Decade; and “Military Power and the Use of Force,” in the US Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy, as well as articles in Parameters, Military Review, and with the Strategic Studies Institute.
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About John Troxell
Retired US Army Colonel
Troxell is a former research professor of national security and military strategy with the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. He also served at the War College as a professor of national security affairs with the Center for Strategic Leadership and as the director of national security studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy.
His Army assignments included: War Plans Division, Department of the Army; force planner for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements; and chief, Engineer Plans Division, Combined Forces Command, Seoul, South Korea. Other military assignments included command of the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, and service with the 1st, 43rd, and 293rd Engineer Battalions.
Troxell earned a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy in 1974 and a master’s from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, in 1982. He graduated from the US Army War College and served as the General George S. Patton Chair of Operational Research and Analysis and was recognized as a War College Distinguished Fellow in 2018.
Recent publications include “Geoeconomics,” Military Review, January–February 2018 and coeditor of Avoiding the Trap: U.S. Strategy and Policy for Competing in the Asia-Pacific Beyond the Rebalance, February 2018. Published book chapters include: “Presidential Decision Directive-56: A Glass Half Full,” in The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare; “Sizing the Military in the Post–Cold War Era,” in United States Post–Cold War Defence Interests: A Review of the First Decade; and “Military Power and the Use of Force,” in the US Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy, as well as articles in Parameters, Military Review, and with the Strategic Studies Institute.