Dr. Richard B. Andres is a Senior Fellow and Energy and Environment Security and Policy Chair at INSS. His current work focuses on energy and environmental security and particularly defense related energy issues. Prior to joining INSS, Dr. Andres was a professor at Air University assigned to the Pentagon where he served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Air Force. He has also served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (during both the Clinton and Bush administrations), the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Office of Force Transformation, US Strategic Command, the Nuclear Posture Review, the Council on Foreign Relations and other organizations. His publications appear in such journals as International Security, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Security Studies, and Joint Force Quarterly. Dr. Andres was awarded the medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, and has received numerous academic awards and fellowships. He received his PhD from the University of California, Davis.
Ms. M. Elaine Bunn, Distinguished Research Fellow, directs INSS’ Future Strategic Concepts Program.  Before joining INSS in 2000, she was a senior executive in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where she worked for twenty years in international security policy.  She served as Principal Director, Nuclear Forces and Missile Defense Policy, from 1993-98. During that time, she was executive director of the 1994 Nuclear Posture Review. She was a visiting fellow at the RAND Corporation, 1998-2000; from February through June 2001, she co-chaired a panel for the Secretary of Defense, framing issues for the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review.  Her publications include a number of articles and book chapters on strategic planning, nuclear policy, missile defense, preemption and deterrence. Back to Top
Mr. John Cope is a specialist in Western Hemisphere defense and security affairs, U.S. policy for Latin America and the Caribbean, civil-military relations, and defense education.  Before retiring from the Army, Colonel Cope served in the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, U.S. Southern Command, and U.S. Army South, U.S. Army War College, and the 101st Airborne Division. Past projects at INSS include developing the concept for and founding the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (CHDS) as well as assessing the effectiveness worldwide of U.S. International Military Education and Training (IMET).  Recent policy research and analysis has focused on security cooperation in the Caribbean Basin, including Mexico, as in integral part of U.S. homeland defense, U.S. policy toward Colombia, and the Defense Department’s engagement with Brazil and Chile.  INSS published "Colombia's War: Toward a New Strategy," in the Strategic Forum series and “A Prescription for Protecting the Southern Approach,” in the Joint Force Quarterly.  Current History February 2009 included “Hemisphere Security: A New Approach,” co-written with NDU colleague, Professor Frank Mora.  Mr. Cope has contributed articles and chapters on regional security and defense issues in other U.S. and foreign publications.  His edited volume, Resilient Democracy: Reflections on the Progress, Risks, and Strategic Importance of Security in Colombia, will be published in 2009. Back to Top
Ambassador Luigi Einaudi joined the Institute of National Strategic Studies as a distinguished visiting fellow in 2008 following a diplomatic career of more than 30 years that included assignments as U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States (1989-93) and special envoy to the Ecuador-Peru peace talks (1995-1998). In 2000, Ambassador Einaudi was elected assistant secretary general of the OAS and subsequently served as acting secretary general from 2004 to 2005.   Back to Top
Commander John R. Fielder, III, a Naval Aviator, serves as a Senior Military Fellow in the Institute for National Strategic Studies' Center for Applied Strategic Learning. He assumed these duties in 2007 following a two year assignment as the Naval Attaché to Kenya.  A graduate of both the Air Command and Staff College in Maxwell AFB (1999) and the National War College at Fort Lesley J. McNair (2004), he has earned Masters Degrees in Military Operational Art and Science and National Security Strategy.  Commander Fielder serves in the Policy Support Division.  Back to Top
Dr. Thomas X. Hammes, Senior Research Fellow, served 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps -- primarily in the operating forces.  He participated in stabilization operations in Somalia and Iraq and trained insurgents in various locations.  He holds a BS in Operations Analysis from the U.S. Naval Academy and an MSt and DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University.  He has lectured widely and published on insurgency, irregular warfare and future conflict. He is the author of The Sling and the Stone.  Back to Top
Col Michael Hughes is a Senior Military Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies in the Future Strategic Concepts Program. He is a career air traffic control and airfield operations officer with 23 years of military service, with experience at the squadron, group and major command levels. He holds masters degrees in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, and International Relations from Troy State University. Before joining INSS in July 2008 he taught joint military operations at the U.S. Naval War College. Back to Top
L. Erik Kjonnerod has been the Director of the Center for Applied Strategic Learning (CASL) since the fall of 2008.  As a principal component of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, the CASL is a recognized center of excellence for experiential learning and strategic level policy-making simulations. He is a specialist in politico-military exercises and crisis decision-making simulations. As the former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Professional Education he was responsible for the program at NDU that works to develop a cadre of U.S. government professionals knowledgeable on interagency coordination, planning and management of complex foreign crises. A noted Latin American civil-military specialist, he has served in military and diplomatic postings throughout the Americas. He came to the National Defense University from the Joint Staff where he was the military planner for Central America and the Caribbean in the Western Hemisphere Division of J-5. A highly decorated career U. S. Army infantry officer, he served tours in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Professor Kjonnerod earned his B.A. degree from Rutgers University in 1967 and M.A. from the University of Illinois in 1974. He was awarded the Commanders Award for Outstanding Civilian Performance for his efforts in counter-drug initiatives in Latin America.  Back to Top
Dr. Christopher J. Lamb is the Interim Director of INSS. He conducts research on national security strategy and policy, and U.S. defense strategy, requirements, plans and programs, and strategic military concepts.  As Director, Research and Analysis for the Project on National Security Reform, he was responsible for the Project’s 2008 study on how to reform the national security system, “Forging a New Shield.”  Prior to joining INSS Dr. Lamb served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Resources and Plans, and prior to that as Director of Policy Planning in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, as the Deputy Director for Military Development on the State Department’s Interagency Task Force for Military Stabilization in the Balkans, and as the Director for Requirements and Plans in the Office of Secretary of Defense.  He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from Georgetown University in 1986.  His recent publications include U.S. Special Operations Forces, with David Tucker, Columbia University Press, 2007; “Reforming Pentagon Strategic Decision Making,” with Irving Lachow, Strategic Forum No. 221, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, July 2006. and in September, 2005, two monographs from National Defense University Press: "Review of Psychological Operations Lessons Learned from Recent Operational Experience," and "Transforming Defense." Back to Top
Mr. Leo Michel is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, concentrating on transatlantic defense and security issues.  He joined INSS in 2002 after 17 years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where his positions included Director for NATO Policy, Director for Non-Nuclear Arms Control, and Secretary of Defense Representative to the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Consultative Commission.  Mr. Michel previously served as an analyst in the U.S. Intelligence Community, a legislative aide to a Member of Congress, and a U.S. Navy officer.  Appointed to the career Senior Executive Service in 2000, he holds a MA from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and a BA from Princeton University. Back to Top
Dr. James J. Przystup, Senior Research Fellow, has worked on issues related to East Asia for close to thirty years on Capitol Hill,on the House of Reprsentatives Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs; as the Deputy Director of the Presidential Commission on U.S.-Japan Relations; in the private sector at IBM; on the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State; in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; as Director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation. He holds a BA Summa Cum Laude from the University of Detroit and an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. He recently co-authored "The United States and the Asia-Pacific Region: Security Strategy for the Obama Administration" and will shortly publish "Strategic Imperatives in the Asia-Pacific Region and a work on Strategies for Dealing with North Korea." Back to Top
Captain Mark Redden, U.S. Navy, was commissioned through the Aviation Officer Candidate School program in March 1984.  Designated a Naval Flight Officer in March 1985, his initial operational flying tour was with VS-30 assigned to the USS SARATOGA (CV 60) and USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62), while his department head tour was with VS-31 assigned to the USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73).  During these tours, he made deployments to the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf and South America, conducting both real world operations and numerous bi- and multi-lateral exercises with allied nations.  Following his initial operational tour, he completed the Antisubmarine Warfare curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School.  Captain Redden subsequently returned to the operational realm, serving on the staff of Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Force SEVENTH FLEET (CTF 72) as the Allied Operations Officer.  In this capacity he was responsible for the conduct of bilateral exercises with allied nations of the Western Pacific, as well as serving as the staff’s lead officer for OPLAN development.  Additionally, Captain Redden has attended the Naval War College, served at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he was assigned as the intelligence briefer for the Deputy Secretary of Defense, commanded a Navy Recruiting District, served as the Air Officer aboard USS DWIGH D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69), and was the Navy’s 2005 Federal Executive Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.  Back to Top
Dr. Eugene R. Rumer is Interim Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at the National Defense University and previously served as Deputy Director and Director of Research. He originally joined INSS as a Senior Research Fellow in 2000. His principal area of expertise is Russia and the states of the former Soviet Union. Mr. Rumer also has served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State and as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. Before entering government, he worked at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, CA and Moscow, Russia as the resident representative in 1993-96. In addition, Mr. Rumer has held research appointments at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, where he was Visiting Senior Fellow on sabbatical from INSS. He has taught in the graduate programs at The George Washington and Georgetown University, and published widely in professional journals and the media. He holds degrees from Boston University (B.A.), Georgetown (M.A.), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (Ph.D).  Back to Top
Dr. Phillip C. Saunders is the Interim Director of Research and the Interim Director of the Center for Study of Chinese Military Affairs. He has been a Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University's Institute for National Strategic Studies since January 2004. He previously worked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he served as Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program from 1999-2003 and taught courses on Chinese politics, Chinese foreign policy, and East Asian security. Dr. Saunders has conducted research and consulted on East Asian security issues for Princeton University and the Council on Foreign Relations and previously worked on Asia policy issues as an officer in the United States Air Force. Dr. Saunders has published numerous articles and book chapters on China and Asian security issues; his recent publications include the monograph China’s Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools and the article "Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement" in International Security. Dr. Saunders attended Harvard College and received his MPA and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Back to Top
Dr. Judith S. Yaphe is a Distinguished Research Fellow for the Middle East in the INSS. She specializes in Iraq, Iran, and the strategic environment in the Persian Gulf region. Before joining INSS in 1995, Dr. Yaphe served for 20 years as a senior analyst on Near East-Persian Gulf issues in the Office of Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis, Directorate of Intelligence, CIA. Among Dr. Yaphe’s accomplishments in government was her role as senior political analyst on Iraq and the Gulf, for which she received the Intelligence Medal of Commendation and other awards. Her recent publications include , and with Col. Charles Lutes.  Dr. Yaphe received a B.A. with Honors in History from Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.  She served as an adviser to the Iraq Study Group headed by former Secretary of State James Baker and the Hon. Lee Hamilton; its report was published in 2006. PUBLICATIONS: "Iraq: Are We There Yet?” Current History, (December 2008) After the Surge: Next Steps in Iraq (Strategic Forum 230, February 2008) Challenges to Persian Gulf Security: How Should the United States Respond? (Strategic Forum 237, November 2008) Reassessing the Implications of a Nuclear-Armed Iran with Col.Charles Lutes (NDU, 2005) Back to Top
Dr. Christopher D. Yung is the Senior Research Fellow for China and East Asian Militaries, the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) at National Defense University.  He has held this position since September 2009.  Prior to his entering into government service, Dr. Yung was a senior Research Analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) located in Alexandria, Virginia.  While at C.N.A. Dr. Yung led projects or was involved in analysis related to China, Northeast Asia security, the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Military, and U.S. inter-operability with the militaries of the Far East.  He was a member of Undersecretary of the Navy’s Asia-Pacific Round Table Discussion Group. He wrote a widely read monograph on Chinese Naval Power in the Twenty First Century.   He led projects or was involved in Asia-Pacific related studies for the Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet, Commander, Seventh Fleet, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Office of Naval Research, Marine Corps Combat Development Command,  Office of Naval Intelligence, Office   of the Director of National Intelligence, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Korea, and Marine Corps Intelligence Activity.  PUBLICATIONS: Books and Monographs: Gators of Neptune:  Naval Amphibious Planning for the Normandy Invasion, 1942-4, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2006. Leveraging NCIS Capabilities for the Global War on Terror, C.N.A. Research Memorandum, Alexandria, Va., September 2007. China Science and Technology, A Scoping Study for the Office of Naval Research, C.N.A. Research Memorandum, Alexandria, Va. April 2006. Back to Top