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Charles L. Barry
 

photo of Charles BarryCharles L. Barry
Senior Research Fellow

Dr. Barry has been associated with NDU since 1993, first with INSS and with the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) since its founding in 2001. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in international relations, and earned his Doctor of Public Administration at the University of Baltimore, concentrating in the field of Information Resource Management. He is a member of the Pi Alpha Alpha National Honor Society in Public Administration, the Association of the United States Army, the Army Aviation Association of America and the Military Officers Association. He has been a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow since 2004.

Dr. Barry is a retired combat soldier. His career in the United States Army includes operational leadership positions in infantry and aviation, and nearly ten years as a joint strategic planner in Europe and Washington. He participated in numerous deployments in Asia and Europe as well as the Caribbean, Central America and Africa.

Dr. Barry has lectured and written for over 25 years on transatlantic relations, Joint C4 network integration, and military operations and strategy. He researches command and control, stability operations, interoperability and force structure for the U.S. Army. Dr. Barry’s current projects include: NATO issues including Comprehensive Approach, New Strategic Concept and Afghanistan; EU military capacity and the transformation of EU members’ military forces; the impact of Future Combat Systems technologies on Army and Joint Command and Control; combat leadership topics, and cyberspace aspects of military operations.

Recent publications include: Defense and Technology Paper (DTP) 57, Army S&T Investment in Interoperability (2009); co-authorship of Alliance Reborn (2009); chapter author in Civilian Surge (2008) and Transforming NATO (2008). Forthcoming publications include: co-author on “Overview of Service Cyberpower Theories” in Cyberpower & National Security (Potomac Press, 2009), What Democracy for Afghanistan? (DTP series, May 2009); NATO Cyber Defense Policy (June 2009); and “Implementing NATO’s Comprehensive Approach in Complex Operations,” in the forthcoming book, NATO in Search of a Vision (Georgetown Press, 2010). Dr. Barry has contributed to several recent publications on NATO’s Comprehensive Approach, including in NATO Review (April 2008) and Defense Horizons (#58, September 2008). He is co-author of CTNSP Defense & Technology Papers on Harnessing the Interagency for Complex Operations (#16); Making IT Happen: Transforming Military Information Technology (#20), Extending the Users Reach: Responsive Networking for Integrated Military Operations (#24), Solutions for Northern Kosovo (#34) and Army Battle Command in Stability & Reconstruction Operations in DTP #43. His Defense Horizons papers include #3 - The Future of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) and #28 - Transforming NATO Command and Control. He contributed chapters on U.S. interoperability with NATO (in Transforming America's Military, NDU Press), and on Organizing for Stability Operations and Re-Balancing the Active-Reserve Mix (in Transforming for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations, NDU Press).

Dr. Barry’s earlier work includes articles on military and transatlantic affairs in Military Review, Defence Helicopter World, Survival and Current History, as well as OpEd pieces in the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal Europe. He has also published four books: The Search for Peace in Europe (1993), Security Architecture for Europe (1995), Reforging the Trans-Atlantic Relationship (1996) and Accelerating on the Run - Business Improvement from the War Room to the Boardroom (1998).