Academic Program Director for Support to Resilience and Resistance. Designing over 400 hours of education intended to enhance the special operation leader’s strategic development and competency to understand the use and utility of resilience and resistance frameworks from special operations inception during WWII to the post-9/11 contemporary environment. The program coordinates and manages over twenty professors and experts, as well as curriculum development of four courses dealing with national resistance, unconventional warfare, social movement theory, influence activities, integrated deterrence, and information operations. The learning management system involves Blackboard Ultra and most education designed for hybrid delivery, including virtual participation.

These lessons in special operations forces (SOF) military history, strategic geography, and cultural undercurrents remain relevant context to modern challenges faced by special operators in tomorrow’s Fourth Age of SOF. Using the Socratic method, this 40-hour module of five major lessons leverages flipped classroom and hybrid presentation methodology to introduce and explore three themes: (a) irregular warfare, (b) special operations history, and (c) a number of historical case studies involving U.S. support to resistance and resilience.

This course provides students with tools and concepts to analyze IW theories and practices. Through case studies, multimedia, and selected readings, students will be better equipped to collaborate with partners as well as outthink and out innovate adversaries in a complex operating environment. This course has a four-week distance learning requirement as well as the one-week resident portion. Students should expect about 20 hours of reading and discussion posts required during the distance learning portion.

This seminar examines current U.S. policy and the capabilities of key agencies to disrupt, deter, and defeat terrorist networks. Seminar sessions follow four themes: understanding terrorist networks; relevant national security policies, strategies, and plans; components of a comprehensive approach to countering terrorism; and methods to enhance the national security system to combat terrorism.

This course prepares joint headquarters personnel to effectively plan, support and control unconventional warfare (UW) operations. Students will develop an enhanced understanding of resistance, the unique requirements associated with UW and how operations are conceived and integrated at the Theater Special Operations Commands (TSOC) and Geographic Combatant Commands (GCC).

This course centers on the historical development of the U.S. Marine Corps, examining and tracing the evolution of its roles and missions, organization, capabilities, and institutional culture. Emphasis is placed on how the Marine Corps has perceived its role in American Society, and how it has been perceived by American society.

This course examines the antecedents, origins and development of the United States Navy and Marine Corps within the framework of America's growth as a continental and, eventually, global power, with particular emphasis on the development of naval and maritime strategy.