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About Steven Metz
- Steven Kent Metz (born June 30, 1956 in Charleston, West Virginia) is an American author and Senior Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S.
- Army War College Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) where he specializes in insurgency and counterinsurgency, American defense policy, strategic theory, the African security environment, and future warfare.
- He has been with SSI since 1993, previously serving as Henry L.
- Stimson Professor of Military Studies, Director of Research, Chairman of the Regional Strategy Department,Research Director for the Joint Strategic Landpower Task Force; Director of the Future of American Strategy Project; Project Director for the Army Iraq Stabilization Strategic Assessment; Director of the Strategic Studies Institute and Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Future Landpower Environment Project; and Co-Organizer of the Harvard-U.S.
- Army War College Symposia on Security Transformation.
- Metz has also been on the faculty of the U.S.
- Air War College, the U.S.
- Army Command and General Staff College, and several universities.
- He has been an advisor to government agencies, political organizations, campaigns and commissions; served on many national security policy task forces; testified in both houses of Congress; and spoken on military and security issues around the world.
- He is the author of more than 400 publications and is frequently interviewed by print, television and radio media.
- He was a member of the blue ribbon advisory panel for the Secretary of Defense Strategic Portfolio Review for Close Combat Capabilities; the RAND Insurgency Board; the Board of Advisors for the U.S.
- Army history of Operation Iraqi Freedom; the Senior Advisory Panel on Special Forces—Conventional Forces Interdependence; the Atlantic Council's Defense Austerity Task Force; the Central Intelligence Agency's External Advisory Panel for the Iraq Working Group; the Board of Advisers for the American Enterprise Institute's Defense Review; the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Defense Reform For a New Era Task Force; and the Lexington Institute's Grading Government Performance on Homeland Security Task Force.
- He is currently a Nonresident Scholar at the Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft and formerly Adjunct Scholar at the U.S.
- Military Academy's Modern War Institute.
- From 2012 to 2019 he wrote a weekly column on defense and security issues for "World Politics Review [1].
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