Research Professor of the Military Profession, Director National Security Policy Program
Richard A. Lacquement Jr., Ph.D. (Colonel, retired, U.S. Army) is Research Professor of the Military Profession in the US Army War College’s (USAWC) Strategic Studies Institute (SSI). He is also Director of the USAWC’s National Security Policy Program (NSPP).
His current research effort focuses on a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary project about the future of the U.S. military profession in conjunction with several other practitioners and scholars. Framing the Future of the U.S. Military Profession, co-authored with Dr. Tom Galvin, (see “Featured Works” below) provides the overview for the project.
Prior to his assignment to SSI he served as Dean of the USAWC’s School of Strategic Landpower (2012-2020). During more than 29 years of active duty in the U.S. Army he served as a Strategist and Field Artillery officer. Before his military retirement in 2013, he had many senior-level assignments, to include with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force Joint Command in Afghanistan, as Chief of Plans for U.S. Forces Korea, and in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He had tactical assignments in U.S. Army Airborne, Air Assault and Armored units (to include combat operations in Iraq in 1991 and 2003) and teaching assignments at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), U.S. Naval War College (USNWC) and USAWC.
He is the author of Shaping American Military Capabilities after the Cold War, Army Professional Expertise and Jurisdictions, and articles and book chapters on national security, the military profession, the Army, civil-military relations, professional military education, security force assistance, stability operations, and counterinsurgency.
Dr. Lacquement is a Political Scientist with a Ph.D. in International Relations (Security Studies) from Princeton University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from USMA (West Point) and Master’s Degrees from the USNWC, USAWC, and Princeton.
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About Richard Lacquement
Richard A. Lacquement Jr., Ph.D. (Colonel, retired, U.S. Army) is Research Professor of the Military Profession in the US Army War College’s (USAWC) Strategic Studies Institute (SSI). He is also Director of the USAWC’s National Security Policy Program (NSPP).
His current research effort focuses on a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary project about the future of the U.S. military profession in conjunction with several other practitioners and scholars. Framing the Future of the U.S. Military Profession, co-authored with Dr. Tom Galvin, (see “Featured Works” below) provides the overview for the project.
Prior to his assignment to SSI he served as Dean of the USAWC’s School of Strategic Landpower (2012-2020). During more than 29 years of active duty in the U.S. Army he served as a Strategist and Field Artillery officer. Before his military retirement in 2013, he had many senior-level assignments, to include with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force Joint Command in Afghanistan, as Chief of Plans for U.S. Forces Korea, and in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He had tactical assignments in U.S. Army Airborne, Air Assault and Armored units (to include combat operations in Iraq in 1991 and 2003) and teaching assignments at the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), U.S. Naval War College (USNWC) and USAWC.
He is the author of Shaping American Military Capabilities after the Cold War, Army Professional Expertise and Jurisdictions, and articles and book chapters on national security, the military profession, the Army, civil-military relations, professional military education, security force assistance, stability operations, and counterinsurgency.
Dr. Lacquement is a Political Scientist with a Ph.D. in International Relations (Security Studies) from Princeton University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from USMA (West Point) and Master’s Degrees from the USNWC, USAWC, and Princeton.
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