My Approach to Teaching & Writing

Temporary note:  Please know I am not ColTPerez on Parler.  I have no affiliation with this person, nor would I ever have a Parler account.

I serve as the Chair of Executive and Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA.  I also serve as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.  

As a teacher of national-security practitioners and a political theorist, four objectives motivate my teaching and writing.

• I seek to integrate cutting-edge, scholarly perspectives on coercion, interstate war, intrastate war, and conflict termination into strategy formulation, military planning, and professional education in national-security and military affairs.
• I want to help national-security and military professionals cultivate political and causal literacy as it relates to military interventions.  Such literacy entails understanding how causal dynamics in the policy and strategic environments might unfold as well as the potential consequences of our interventions.  
• I advocate for an approach to strategic education centered on the ethos of "strategy is performance."  This approach means that we cannot become better strategists by merely reading and talking about strategy.  We become better strategists only by doing strategy.
• I aim to integrate a heightened appreciation for ethics as a routine practice in policy and strategy formulation...particularly when noncombatants' lives are at risk.

My research interests include:

• the integration of political science/political theory into military planning and strategy
• political, military, and strategic judgment
• military design (Joint and Army)
• military ethics