Mackubin Thomas Owens
Mackubin Thomas Owens | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | "Mac" |
| Born | November 16, 1945 Bryan, Texas, U.S. |
| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/ | United States Marine Corps |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles/wars | Vietnam War |
| Awards | Silver Star |
| Other work | Author |
Mackubin Thomas Owens is a senior fellow at the
Institute of World Politics. He was previously the associate dean of academics for electives and directed research and professor of strategy and force planning for the Naval War College in the U.S., as well as a contributing editor to National Review.[1]
Career
He is a senior fellow at the Program on National Security of the
Reagan administration. From 1990 to 1997, Owens was editor-in-chief of the defense journal Strategic Review and an adjunct professor of international relations at what is now the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.[3]
Owens served as an
Marine Corps Reserve as a colonel in 1994. He holds a Ph.D in politics from the University of Dallas, a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Oklahoma, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara.[4]
His book, US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain, was published by Continuum in January 2011. It explains some of the key issues that surround the relations between the military and its civilian control in the US today.
Owens contends "that women in combat undermine unit cohesion and thereby generate Clausewitzian friction."[5]
References
- ^ Mackubin Owens to join IWP as Dean and professor of military strategy; IWP; January 5, 2015
- ^ Foreign Policy Research Institute biography. "Mackubin Thomas Owens". Archived from the original on 2008-05-13.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ Claremont Institute biography. "Mackubin Thomas Owens". Archived from the original on 2007-06-09.
- ^ Ashbrook Center biography. "Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty:Mackubin T. Owens". Archived from the original on 2014-09-11.
- ^ Israeli Women in Fatigues Archived 2011-04-20 at the Wayback Machine (2005)
External links
- Thomas Owens columns 12-month archive at National Review Online.
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