BIO
Lt. Col. Thad D. Weist, U.S. Army, retired, is an assistant professor in the Department of Army Tactics, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He received his BA from West Point in 1998 and served twenty-one years in the U.S. Army in aviation units in Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, and the United States. He received his MA in defense and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.