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Student Thesis Support Advisor (* Outstanding Thesis, ^ Thesis Related Publciation) 1. Chesnut, K., Sirois, B., Does Prior Service Recruitment of Officers and Enlisted in SOF Require Revision, 2020. 2. Hill, R., Hirtz, D., Insurgent / Counter-insurgent Wargame, 2020. 3. Laske, S., Turnisped, J., The SEAL Chief Warrant Officer’s Value Proposition to Naval Special Warfare, 2020. 4. Tomica, C., Deterrence in the Artic: Is NATO A solution for a Peaceful Arctic?, 2020. 5. Baker, J., Johnson, N., Preservation of the Force and Family Program have on US Army Special Operations Command’s ability to retain talent, 2019. 6. Wade, A., Winter is Coming: Ensuring U.S. Special Forces are Prepared to Fight and Win in a Cold Weather Environment, 2019. 7. Cooper, S., Doyle, F., Special Operation: Quantified Deterrence Against Russian Aggression in Eastern Europe, 2019. 8. *King, J., Modeling Policy Change for Sex Trafficking Market in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2019. 9. Palmer, E., Smth, J., Azmiuth Check: Envisioning U.S. Army Special Forces in the Next Peer War, 2019. 10. *^Burnette, J., From the Argonne to the Arghandab: Junior Officer Leader Development in the Modern-Age (1918-Present), 2019. 11. Aliakbar, M., Yoga, P., Gauging the Potential for Armed Conflict Between China and Indonesia in the South China Sea, 2018. 12. Gianos, S., Lafountain, J., Strategic Thinking: How Special Forces Officers Can Influence Success, 2018. 13. Mann, E., Soto, M., Special Forces Operational Detachment - A 2035, 2018. 14. ^Arias, J., Klay, C., Insurgent Uprising: An Unconventional Warfare Wargame, 2017. 15. El Khoury, J., Lapp, A., Predicting the Outcomes of Asymmetric Wars, 2017. 16. *^Schuety, C., Will, L., The American Way of Swarm: A Machine Learning Strategy for Training Autonomous Systems, 2017. 17. Birch, R., Cicchillo, W., Wargaming and Naval Special Warfare: Innovating for Future Conflict, 2016. 18. Bochner, W., Davis, J., Millennials in Command: #Infiltration, 2016 19. Nagle, J., Logistics in Support of Unconventional Warfare Operations, 2016. 20. *^Searle, G., Impact Assessment in Special Warfare, 2016. 21. Horvath, B., Sharpe, J., PSYOP Needs More Science: The Root Cause of the Branch's Difficulties with Assessment, 2015. 22. Rowlette, K., Technology Strategy in Irregular Warfare: High-Tech Versus Right-Tech, 2015. 23. Varner, M., The Recruitment and Retention of 180A: The Special Forces Warrant Officer, 2015. 24. Allen, J., Graham, L., Missell, A., Megacities and the Proposed Urban Intervention Model, 2014. 25. Chenard, J., Thibodeau, C., Foreign Aid: Are We Increasing Stability?, 2014. Co-Advisor (* Outstanding Thesis, ^ Thesis Related Publication) 1. Phillips, C., Stealing Thunder with Sharpened Spears: Framework for SOCOM Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Efforts Against Non-State Actors, 2020. 2. *Stephan, O., Offensive Realism and Hybrid Warfare, 2019. 3. Hall, J., Wax, S., Infiltrating WWIII: Analysis of SOF Rotary Wing in Future Contested Environments, 2019. 4. Gojowsky, K., Koegler, S., 21st Century Warfare: Factors Impacting Effective Relationships Between SOF and Their Partners, 2018. 5. *Hoover, Z., Self, J., Yu, D., Building Partner Capacity: The Science Behind the Art, 2016. 6. Cogan, T., Reexamining Ground SOF Command and Control: Does One Size Fit All?, 2016. 7. Villareal, G., Operation Exodus: The Massacre of 44 Philippine Police Commandos in Mamasapano Clash, 2016. 8. Devoto Gagliardi, R., An Exploratory Study of Sendero Luminoso's Dynamics, 2016. 9. Phillips, C., Stealing Thunder with Sharpened Spears: Framework for SOCOM Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Efforts Against Non-State Actors, 2016. 10. *Caldwell, J., Oh, J., Sustainable Choices: Using the Air Force Analysis System to Guide U.S. Aviation Security Cooperation and Assistance Decisions, 2015. 11. Adriansyah, A., Suntoro, E., The Development of Indonesia’s Doctrine for Special Hostage-rescue Operations, 2015. Second Reader (* Outstanding Thesis, ^ Thesis Related Publication) 1. Alford, C., Chang, S., Human Optimization and Performance Enhancing Drugs, 2020. 2. Mccoy, C., Information Strategy and the American Way of War, 2020. 3. *Bernhardt, K. Risk and Decision Making in Military operations, 2020. 4.*Fiala, M., Lilliputians and the Amorphous Giant: Small States’ Opportunities Facing the Hybrid Threat, 2019. 5. Andriliunas, J., The Arab Spring: Testing a Theory of Revolution, 2019. 6. *Ismanto, T., Peace in Papua: Analyzing the Indonesian Strategic Moves to Counter the Papuan Insurgency, 2019. 7. Sweet, K., Graduate School Education as a Retention and Readiness Tool, 2019. 8. Mckinley, A., Rastello, E.,Wiblin, W., Griffin, J., Economic Investment, corruption, Fragility, and Freedom: How the PRC Leverages States’ Pre-existing Internal Conditions to Gain Advantage, 2019. 9. Cercy, B., The Assessment of Rangers: Assessment and Selection in the 75th Ranger Regiment from 1986 – 2018, 2019. 10. Boscow, J., Refugees and Terrorism in the West, 2019. 11. Childs, G., Fleming, R., Peaceful Protest, Political Regimes, and the Social Media Challenge, 2018. 12. Carattini, D., Kids at the Border: Unaccompanied Child Migration From the Northern Triangle and Mexico, 2018. 13. Schnaak, D., Thompson, R., Improving Military Team Building Utilizing Matchmaking Algorithms, 2018. 14. Snyder, R., Foreign Language Proficiency in Special Forces, 2018. 15. Bourret, A., Mendes, J., Wines, J., Assessing Sentiment in Conflict Zones Through Social Media, 2018. 16. *MacGregor, I., Tomberlin, J., Team harmony: Employing Matchmaking Algorithms to Team-Building, 2018. 17. Lasiter, N., When Do Governments Concede to Terrorists?, 2018. 18. Evans, A., Frost, H., Hodges, R., Understanding Violence Through Social Media, 2018. 19. *^Long, D., Mulch, C., Interactive Wargaming CyberWar: 2025, 2017. 20. Hill, J., U.S. Special Forces: Culture Warriors, 2017. 21. Kiernan, C., Orkins, W., COREnet: The Fusion of Social Network Analysis and Target Audience Analysis, 2016. 22. Pritchett, A., U.S. Economic Assistance to Colombia: A Model for U.S. Economic Assistance to Mexico?, 2016. 23. Hendricksen, A., The Optimal Employment of a Deep Seaweb Acoustic Network for Submarine Communications at Speed and Depth Using a Defender-Attacker-Defender Model, 2015. 24. *Bailey, P., Woods, D., Relational Maneuver: How to Wage Irregular Warfare and MARSOC’s Strategic Application, 2015. 25. Housley, J., Megacity Analysis: A Clustering Approach to Classification, 2015. 26. Burroni, M., The Homegrown Jihadi Terrorist: The Threat of ISIS-Inspired Radicalization in the United States, 2014. 27. Barry, M., Understanding the Drivers of Chinese Public Diplomacy in the Information Environment, 2014. 28. *Hanrahan, B., Woody, D., Transitions From Violence to Politics: Conditions For the Politicization of Violent Non-State Actors, 2014. 29. Ormond, B., Williams, A., Using Multi-Attribute Decision Making and Comparative Evidence to Improve Human Targeting Decisions, 2014. 30. Flaherty, R., Phillips, A., By Force or by Fraud: Optimizing U.S. Information Strategy With Deception, 2013. |