Biography of Mackubin Thomas Owens

Mackubin Thomas Owens

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Biography

Dr. Owens is Professor of Strategy and Force Planning at the US Naval War
College in Newport, Rhode Island where he specializes in the planning of US
strategy and forces, especially naval and power projection forces; the political
economy of national security; national security organization; strategic
geography; and American civil-military relations.
He also serves as Director of the Naval War College Electives Program. In
addition to the core course, he teaches electives on The American Founding,
Strategy and Policy of the American Civil War, The Statesmanship of Abraham
Lincoln, Sea Power and Maritime Strategy, Strategy and Geography, and US
Civil-Military Relations. From 1990
to 1997, Dr. Owens was Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly defense journal
Strategic Review and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at
Boston University.

Dr. Owens is a monthly columnist for the Providence
Journal, writing primarily on security affairs and the character of American
republican government. His articles
on national security issues have appeared in such publications as International
Security, Orbis, Armed Forces Journal, Joint Force Quarterly, The Public
Interest, The Weekly Standard, Defence Analysis, US Naval Institute Proceedings,
Marine Corps Gazette, Comparative Strategy, National
Review, The New York Times, The Washington Times, and
The Wall Street Journal. He
is co-editor of the textbook, Strategy and
Force Planning, now in its third edition, for which he also wrote the
chapters entitled "The Political Economy of National Security" and
"Thinking About Strategy." He currently is working on a book
tentatively entitled Sword of the Republic and Empire: A History of US
Civil-Military Relations.

Before joining the faculty of the War College, Dr. Owens served as
National Security Adviser to Senator Bob Kasten, Republican of Wisconsin, and
Director of Legislative Affairs for the Nuclear Weapons Programs of the
Department of Energy during the Reagan administration.
Dr. Owens is also a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam, where as an infantry
platoon commander in 1968-1969, he was wounded twice and awarded the Silver Star
medal. He retired from the Marine
Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1994.

Dr. Owens earned his Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Dallas, a
Master of Arts in Economics from Oklahoma University, and his BA from the
University of California at Santa Barbara.
He has taught at the University of Rhode Island, the University of
Dallas, Catholic University, and the Marine Corpsí School of Advanced
Warfighting (SAW). He has been a
program officer for the Smith Richardson Foundation, Senior Visiting Fellow at
the Center for Naval Analyses and a consultant to the Los Alamos National
Laboratory; Plans Division, Headquarters Marine Corps; and J-5 Strategy, the
Joint Staff.

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