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Steve Miska

Steve Miska currently serves in Germany as a major in the United States Army. He has served in various capacities including lieutenant positions in an airborne battalion in Panama, as a company commander in the 82nd Airborne Division, and as an operations officer with the 1-18th Infantry in both Germany and Tikrit, Iraq. While in Tikrit in 2004-2005, Steve developed a civil-military Joint Coordination Center that synchronized the activities of the police, Iraqi forces, and coalition forces. His article, “Growing the Iraqi Security Forces”, will soon be published in Military Review. Steve has also taught economics for two years in the Department of Social Sciences, West Point, following completion of his M.B.A. from Cornell University. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy. Steve and his wife, Amy, live with their two children in Wurzburg, Germany.

 
  Luis Carlos Montalván

Former Army captain Luis Carlos Montalván served twice in Iraq leading cavalry elements and advisory teams.  He contributed to the 3d ACR’s success in "Operation Restoring Rights" in Tall Afar in 2005 and served as a participant in AEI’s Iraq Planning Group in 2007.  His published work has been featured in The NY Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, The Military Times, NPR, and Abu Dhabi among other media outlets.  Luis is presently working on dual Master's degrees in Journalism and Strategic Communications at Columbia University in NYC.  He is also completing a book about the War in Iraq.

 

Ricardo Morales

Rich Morales is a US Army Lieutenant Colonel.  His experience includes ground combat during the Gulf War, command of an M1A1 Tank Company in Germany, command of UN peacekeepers in the Balkans, and two tours in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  As a former Assistant Professor of Systems Engineering, he taught economics and management at West Point and worked at the Pentagon on Army transformation initiatives.  He was selected as a White House Fellow in 2001 and served at OMB and NASA and was later named Deputy for Border and Transportation Security in the President's Homeland Security Transition Planning Office.  He holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the US Military Academy, an MBA from the Yale School of Management, and graduated as a Mahan Scholar from the Naval War College with a masters in National Security and Strategic Studies.  His research interests include military transformation, organizational behavior and design, homeland security, and conflict resolution.  He is published in several professional journals and is a member of the Remarque Institute at NYU.  Rich currently serves as a Brigade Operations Officer in the Multinational Division in Baghdad and was recently selected to command an armor battalion or cavalry squadron.

 

Scott Morrison

Scott A. Morrison is an Army Special Forces Major presently serving a one year tour as a military advisor to the Commander of the 3rd Bde, 2nd Iraqi Army Division in Qarrayah, Iraq.  He is a graduate of the U.S.Military Academy and he holds MA in Defense Studies from King's College, University of London, an MA in Military Science with a concentration in Unconventional Warfare from American Military University, and is pursuing a MS in Strategic Intelligence at the Joint Military Intelligence College at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Major Morrison has lived and traveled overseas in Europe for a cumulative total of ten years of his life. His operational experience includes serving as a Rifle Platoon Leader in the 82nd Airborne Division during Desert Storm, and as a Special Forces Detachment and Company Commander on multiple sensitive special operations in the Balkans, Operation Provide Comfort II in Northern Iraq, several deployments to Africa for various contingencies, and multiple missions that set the conditions for security coverage leading up to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.
 
Stephen Myrow

Mr. Myrow recently completed service in Baghdad, Iraq as the Chief of Staff for the Ministry of Transportation in the Coalition Provisional Authority. From 1990 to 1995, he also performed in various legal, policy and intelligence capacities at the Departments of State and Defense. Before returning to government service, Mr. Myrow practiced corporate law with an emphasis on international matters in Manhattan and Washington, DC from 1997 to 2003. Since 1999, Mr. Myrow has been a Lecturer at SAIS where he teaches the Crisis Simulation Seminar.

He holds a bachelor of arts degree with a double major in Political Science and Russian Studies from Colgate University, a master of arts degree in International Affairs from SAIS and a doctor of laws degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mr. Myrow is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of directors of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security.