Dr. Mackubin (Mac) T. Owens, the author of US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain (2011), is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, serving as editor of Orbis: FPRI’s Journal of World Affairs from 2008 until 2020. From 2015 to March 2018, he was Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. From 1987 to 2014, he was Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. 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. 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 and company commander in 1968-1969, he was wounded twice and awarded the Silver Star medal. He retired as a Colonel in 1994.