— Volume VIII (2012) —

AUTHOR:
David Tucker
David Tucker is an associate professor in the Department of Defense Analysis and an instructor in the Homeland Security Master’s Degree Program, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Before coming to the Postgraduate School, he served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict and as a Foreign Service officer in Africa and Europe. Dr. Tucker’s publications include “Terrorism, Networks, and Strategy: Why the Conventional Wisdom is Wrong” Homeland Security Affairs (June 2008); U.S. Special Operations Forces, with Christopher Lamb (Columbia University Press, August 2007); and Confronting the Unconventional: Innovation and Transformation in Military Affairs, (Letort Paper, U. S. Army War College, October 2006). He holds a PhD from the Claremont Graduate University.