PROF. BERNARD D. COLE is professor of international history at the National War College in Washington, D.C. He previously served thirty years as a surface warfare officer in the Navy, all in the Pacific. He commanded USS Rathburne (FF 1057) and Destroyer Squadron 35, served as a naval gunfire liaison officer in Vietnam, surface operations officer for CTF 70/77, plans officer for Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet, and as special assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations for Expeditionary Warfare. Dr. Cole’s first book, Gunboats and Marines: The U.S. Navy in China, was published by the University of Delaware Press; The Great Wall at Sea: China’s Navy Enters the 21st Century, was published in October 2001 by the Naval Institute Press; Oil for the Lamps of China: Beijing’s 21st Century Search for Energy, was published by the NDU Press in November 2003; and An Island Adrift: Taiwan’s Security Dilemma, was published in 2006. Dr. Cole earned an A.B. in history from the University of North Carolina, an M.P.A. in national security affairs from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in history from Auburn University.
CDR. PETER DUTTON, JAGC, USN, is the Howard S. Levie Chair of Operational Law in the Joint Military Operations Department at the Naval War College, where he is responsible for all international and operational law instruction in the joint military operations curriculum. Commander Dutton also teaches law of the sea and national security law at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. He began his Navy service as a naval flight officer in 1985, flying various electronic warfare aircraft until 1990, when he was selected for transition from aviation into the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. As a Navy JAG, Commander Dutton served in various positions with the operating forces, including as the legal advisor to commander, Carrier Group Six (John F. Kennedy Battle Group). Commander Dutton received his juris doctor degree from the College of William and Mary in 1993. He received a master’s in national security and strategic studies, with honors, from the Naval War College in 1999, and his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Boston University in 1982.
RICHARD D. FISHER, JR., is International Assessment and Strategy Center vice president and director of the center’s Project on Asian Security and Democracy. Fisher has written extensively on the PRC military and the Asian military balance and their implications for Asia and the United States. Fisher has worked as Asian studies director at the Heritage Foundation and as a consultant on PLA issues for the congressionally chartered U.S. China Security & Economic Review Commission. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the House International Relations Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and the U.S. China Security Commission on the modernization of China’s military. Fisher has been editor of the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief and writes regularly in a variety of news and defense periodicals. He has undertaken field research in China, Taiwan, Russia, India, and Pakistan. Fisher studied at Georgetown University and at Eisenhower College, where he received his B.A. with honors.
EDWARD FRANCIS is a research associate with Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. He received a B.A. from Middlebury College, majoring in Chinese and political science. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.
DR. PAUL H. B. GODWIN retired as professor of international affairs at the National War College, Washington, D.C., in the summer of 1998. In the fall of 1987, he was a visiting professor at the Chinese National Defense University. His teaching and research specialties focus on Chinese defense and security policies. Professor Godwin’s recent publications include “China as Regional Hegemon?” in Jim Rolfe, ed., The Asia-Pacific Region in Transition (Honolulu: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2004); “Decisionmaking Under Stress: The Unintentional Bombing of China’s Belgrade Embassy and the EP-3 Collision,” in Andrew Scobell and Larry M. Wortzel, eds., Chinese National Security Decisionmaking Under Stress (Carlisle, Pa.: U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute, 2005). He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in international relations and received his doctorate in political science from the University of Minnesota. Professor Godwin resides in Chico, California, and is now a consultant and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia.
GARTH HEKLER is a research associate with Defense Group Inc.’s Center for Intelligence Research and Analysis. He specializes in security issues related to China and Southeast Asia. Hekler previously held a position in the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of the Chinese Economic Area, where he covered a broad range of trade issues, including trade in services, basic industries, and energy policy. He received an M.A. in China and Southeast Asian studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in anthropology from the University of Buffalo. He speaks both Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese.
CAPT. ROBERT G. LOEWENTHAL, USN (RET.), was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. After a year in the surface Navy, he reported to Submarine School. He has served in both diesel- and nuclear-powered submarines and commanded the USS George Bancroft (SSBN 643) (Gold) for three years, making five deterrent patrols. He also commanded the USS Hunley (AS 31), a submarine tender, and the Trident Submarine Base at Kings Bay, Georgia, in each instance for two years. Captain Lowenthal held the Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood Chair of Submarine Warfare at the U.S. Naval War College for three years and taught in the Joint Military Operations Department. After retirement from the Navy, Captain Loewenthal was the program manager for research and development at EG&G Corporation, Mechanical Components Group, for eight years. He is survived by his wife JoAnn, who lives in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
PROF. THOMAS G. MAHNKEN is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the Naval War College. He is currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning. Prof. Mahnken is the author of Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918–1941, coauthor of The Limits of Transformation: Officer Attitudes toward the Emerging Revolution in Military Affairs and a volume of the Gulf War Air Power Survey, coeditor of Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel and The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia, and has written numerous articles on U.S. national security policy, intelligence assessment, and arms proliferation. He is also the editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. Before joining the strategy and policy faculty, he served in the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment. A Naval Special Warfare-qualified Navy Reserve intelligence officer, he is a combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and served in Bahrain during Operation Enduring Freedom and with British forces in Kosovo. During the 2005–06 academic year he served as a Visiting Fellow at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Professor Mahnken has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
LT. CHRISTOPHER J. MCCONNAUGHAY enlisted in the Navy in 1987. In 1994 he was selected for the Navy’s Enlisted Commissioning Program and graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an ensign in the USN with a B.A. in atmospheric science. In 2003, he completed a master of arts in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College. Research he undertook at NWC was subsequently published in Newport Paper 22 China’s Nuclear Force Modernization (2005). Lieutenant McConnaughay made five deterrent patrols on the USS West Virginia (SSBN 736) (BLUE). He is currently Chief, Submarine-Launched Ballistic-Missile Quality Assurance at United States Strategic Command Joint Functional Component Command for Space and Global Strike.
REAR ADM. MICHAEL MCDEVITT, USN (RET.), is a vice president and director of the Center for Strategic Studies, a division of the CNA Corporation (CNAC)—a not-for-profit research center in Washington, D.C. During his thirty-four-year Navy career Admiral McDevitt held four at-sea commands, including an aircraft carrier battlegroup. He received a bachelor of arts degree in U.S. history from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree in American diplomatic history from Georgetown University. He is also a graduate of the National War College in Washington, D.C. He was the director of the East Asia Policy office for the Secretary of Defense during the first Bush administration. He also served for two years as the director for Strategy, War Plans and Policy (J-5) for U.S. CINCPAC and as the commandant of the National War College in Washington, D.C. Admiral McDevitt is an active participant in conferences and workshops regarding security issues in East Asia and has had a number of papers published in edited volumes on this subject.
REAR ADM. ERIC MCVADON, USN (RET.), concluded his thirty-five years of naval service as the U.S. defense and naval attaché at the American Embassy in Beijing 1990–92. A consultant on Asian security affairs, he works extensively with the U.S. policy and intelligence communities and the Department of Defense, directly and indirectly. Among his many other responsibilities, he is an Adjunct Fellow with the International Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. His naval experience included extensive experience in air antisubmarine warfare and politico-military affairs, including service as the NATO and U.S. sub-unified commander in Iceland. Admiral McVadon, a designated naval aviator, is a 1958 graduate of Tulane University and has a master’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University. He is a distinguished graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College (Command & Staff), and National War College. He and his wife, Marshall, both from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, live and work in Great Falls, Virginia.
CAPT. JAMES H. PATTON, JR., USN (RET.), is an honor graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and received a master’s of science degree in ocean engineering from the University of Rhode Island. He served on two SSBNs and five SSNs, commanding USS Pargo (SSN650), and was the deputy commander and the chief staff officer of Submarine Development Squadron 12. Following retirement from the Navy in 1985, Captain Patton founded Submarine Tactics and Technology, Inc. For three years he was the technical consultant to Paramount Pictures for the script and production of the movie Hunt for Red October. Captain Patton has published papers in Aerospace & Defense Science, Air Power Journal, Comparative Strategy, Defense Science, Jane’s International Defense Review, Naval Engineers Journal, USNI Proceedings, Naval War College Review, the Army War College journal Parameters, Sea Technology, Strategic Review, and Submarine Review of the Naval Submarine League.
CMDCM (SS/AW) SHAWN A. CAPPELLANO-SARVER enlisted in the Navy in January 1981. He has served on USS George Washington Carver (SSBN 656), USS Philadelphia (SSN 690), USS Richard B. Russell (SSN 687), USS Cheyenne (SSN 773), and USS Memphis (SSN 691). Master Chief Cappellano-Sarver earned a bachelor of science in business from University of the State of New York in 1996. In 2005 he was selected as one of the first four command master chiefs to ever attend the Naval War College, graduating in March 2006 with a master’s of art in strategic studies and national defense. He is qualified in submarines and aviation warfare and is currently serving as a command master chief in Carrier Air Wing 5, Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan.
CAPT. PETER M. SWARTZ, USN (RET.), is a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) of the CNA Corporation (CNAC). While serving on active duty he was Special Assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell during the first Gulf War, and director of Defense Operations at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels during the Warsaw Pact collapse. Throughout the early and mid-1980s he was a principal author of and spokesman for the Reagan administration’s “Maritime Strategy.” As a junior officer, he served two tours in Vietnam as an advisor with the Vietnamese navy. He holds a B.A. with honors in international relations from Brown University, an M.A. in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and an M.Phil. in political science from Columbia University. He has authored numerous journal articles and lectured at several military and civilian colleges and universities in the United States and in Europe.
PROF. TOSHI YOSHIHARA is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department at the U.S. Naval War College. He is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Yoshihara recently served as a visiting professor in the Department of Strategy at the Air War College in Montgomery, Alabama. His research interests include U.S. alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, China’s military modernization, security dynamics on the Korean Peninsula, Japan’s defense policy, and China-Taiwan relations. Dr. Yoshihara’s current research agenda focuses on the influence of geopolitics in Asia, China’s long-term maritime strategy, the geostrategic dimensions of Korean unification, and Taiwan’s civil-military relations. He recently coauthored several articles on various aspects of Chinese maritime strategy in Comparative Strategy, The Naval War College Review, Issues and Studies, and Orbis. He is a coauthor of a monograph titled Alliance Diversification and the Future of the U.S.-Korean Security Relationship (May 2004). He has published articles in Survival, The Washington Quarterly, Orbis, Issues and Studies, and the Naval War College Review. Dr. Yoshihara holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS.
PROF. ANDREW S. ERICKSON is assistant professor in the Strategic Research Department at the U.S. Naval War College. Erickson recently completed his Ph.D. dissertation at Princeton on Chinese aerospace development. Erickson previously worked for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as a Chinese translator and technical analyst. He has also worked at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong, the U.S. Senate, and the White House. He is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and Japanese and has traveled extensively in Asia. Erickson graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College with a B.A. in history and political science and received an M.A. from Princeton in international relations and comparative politics. His research, which focuses on East Asian defense, foreign policy, and technology issues, has been published in Comparative Strategy, Chinese Military Update, Space Policy, Naval War College Review, Undersea Warfare, and Journal of Strategic Studies.
PROF. LYLE J. GOLDSTEIN is an associate professor in the Strategic Research Department of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He teaches and writes about issues in East Asian security, focusing on energy, naval, and nuclear issues. Recent research has been published in such journals as China Quarterly, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Joint Force Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Strategic Studies, International Security, and IISS Survival. His first book, which draws heavily on China’s nuclear history to examine proliferation crises in historical perspective, was published by Stanford University Press in 2005. He is proficient in both Chinese and Russian and has a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He has also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
PROF. WILLIAM S. MURRAY is an associate research professor in the Research and Analysis Division of the Naval War College’s War Game Department. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from SUNY Buffalo in 1983 and a master of arts degree from the Naval War College in 1994. A retired submariner, he has conducted SSN deployments in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and qualified to command nuclear-powered submarines. Professor Murray has published articles in International Security, the U.S. Army War College Parameters, Comparative Strategy, USNI Proceedings, Jane’s Intelligence Review, and Undersea Warfare.
PROF. ANDREW R. WILSON is professor of strategy and policy at the United States Naval War College and received his Ph.D. in history and East Asian languages from Harvard University. He is the author of numerous articles on Chinese military history, Chinese sea power, Sun Tzu’s Art of War, as well as the Chinese diaspora. He is also the author or editor of two books on the Chinese overseas, Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant-Elites in Colonial Manila, 1885–1916 and The Chinese in the Caribbean. Recently he has been involved in editing a multivolume history of the China War, 1937–45; a conference volume titled War and Virtual War; and is completing a new translation of Sun Tzu’s Art of War.