BIO
Michael J. Mooney is a retired U.S. Marine colonel, with multiple deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bosnia. He has commanded Marine reconnaissance units at the platoon, company, and battalion level, with other assignments to include service with a Special Mission Unit, as the Future Operations Division Chief, U.S. Joint Special Operations Command, and a Military Professor of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC). Currently he serves as a Senior Researcher, Russia Maritime Studies Institute, NWC, an adjunct faculty member in the NWC’s College of Distance Education, as well as an adjunct faculty member of the Program on Terrorism and Strategic Studies (PTSS) at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies.