BIO
Colonel Marco J. Lyons is Assistant Chief of Staff G5 Plans at United States Army Pacific, where he oversees mid- to long-term strategy, planning, and war games. Col. Lyons has served in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Okinawa in Army and joint positions. Col. Lyons earned a master’s degree in strategic studies from Naval Postgraduate School where his distinguished thesis, under the supervision of David Yost, was an early comparative study of the 1994, 2001, and 2010 nuclear posture reviews. For two years Col. Lyons was part of Army Science Board studies of the multi-domain operations concept. He has published for Infantry, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the China Landpower Studies Center, and Divergent Options.