Faculty & Staff

LTC Paul Milas

Lieutenant Colonel Paul J. Milas is the Director of African Affairs in the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College. He received his commission as an Aviation officer in 2005 from Indiana University and transitioned to the foreign area officer functional area with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa in 2014.

Prior to his arrival to Carlisle Barracks, he was assigned to the US Embassy Kigali, Rwanda, where he served as the Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché. As a foreign area officer, Lieutenant Colonel Milas has served as an analyst, branch chief, and executive officer in the Middle East/Africa Regional Center at the Defense Intelligence Agency; and at the US Embassy-Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Previous company-grade assignments included: deputy chief of the officer training branch, Directorate of Training and Doctrine, Ft. Rucker, Alabama; small group leader for the Aviation Captains Career Course, Ft. Rucker, Alabama; troop commander, 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry, Fort Drum, New York, where he deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom; assistant operations officer, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, where he deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom; and platoon leader and executive officer in the 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry in Fort Drum, New York.

Lieutenant Colonel Milas holds a Master of International Public Policy degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Indiana University. He is a graduate of the Basic Officer Leader’s Course; OH-58D qualification course; Aviation Captains Career Course; Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape level-C (SERE-C); Airborne School; the Command and General Staff College; Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center French Basic Course; the Security Cooperation Organization/Officer Course; and the Joint Military Attaché School.

By Department

Director’s Office

Dr. C. Anthony Pfaff – Director of SSI & USAWC Press
Mr. Tom Kardos – Deputy Director
Melissa Holley – Administrative Officer

Strategic Research and Analysis Department (SRAD) & Outreach

COL Michael Anthony Shekleton (Shek) – Director
LTC Paul Milas – Director of African Affairs
Dr. James D. Scudieri – Senior Research Historian
MAJ Brennan Deveraux – National Security Researcher
Dr. John R. Deni – Research Professor of JIIM Security Studies
Dr. Evan Ellis – Research Professor of Latin American Studies
Dr. M. Chris Mason – Associate Professor of National Security
Dr. Richard A. Lacquement, Jr. – Research Professor of National Security Affairs
Dr. Michael E. Lynch – Research Associate Professor of the National Security Affairs

China Landpower Studies Center

COL Richard D. Butler – Director
Mr. Joshua Arostegui – Professor of Strategy, Chair of China Studies
Dr. Sheena Greitens – Visiting Associate Professor
Dr. Brian G. Carlson – Research Professor of Indo-Pacific Security Studies
Mr. Richard Gunnell – Research Professor of China Military Studies
Dr. Jake Rinaldi – Defense Analyst, China Landpower Studies Center
Mr. Jake Vartanian – Military Analyst, Landpower and Warfare

USAWC Press

Dr. Antulio J. Echevarria II – Editor in Chief
Ms. Lori K. Janning – Managing Editor/Parameters
Mr. Richard K. Leach – Digital Media Manager
Dr. Erin Forest – Developmental Editor
Ms. Stephanie D. Crider – Copy Editor
Ms. Ellie Foster – Copy Editor
Mrs. Kristen Taylor – Visual Information Specialist/Content Manager
Ms. Kaitlyn Guettler – Visual Information Specialist

Operations and Programs

Vacant– Operations Officer

Alphabetical Listing

A – F

Arostegui, Joshua – China Landpower Studies Center Chair
Butler, COL Richard D. – China Landpower Studies Center Director
Carlson, Dr. Brian G. – Research Professor of Indo-Pacific Security Studies
Crider, Stephanie D. – Copy Editor
Deni, Dr. John R. – Research Professor of JIIM Security Studies
Deveraux, MAJ Brennan – National Security Researcher
Echevarria II, Dr. Antulio J. – Editor in Chief
Ellis, Dr. Evan – Research Professor of Latin American Studies
Forest, Dr. Erin – Consulting Editor
Foster, Ms. Ellie – Copy Editor

G – J

Greitens, Dr. Sheena – Visiting Associate Professor, China Landpower Studies Center
Guettler, Ms. Kaitlyn – Visual Information Specialist
Gunnell, Richard – Research Professor of China Military Studies
Holley, Melissa – Administrative Officer
Janning, Ms. Lori K. – Managing Editor/Parameters

K – O

Kardos, Mr. Tom – Deputy Director
Lacquement, Dr. Richard A., Jr. – Research Professor of National Security Affairs
Leach, Mr. Richard K. – Digital Media Manager
Lynch, Dr. Michael E. – Research Associate Professor of National Security Affairs
Mason, Dr. M. Chris – Associate Professor of National Security
Milas, LTC Paul – Director of African Affairs

P – Z

Pfaff, Dr. C. Anthony – Director of SSI & USAWC Press
Rinaldi, Dr. Jake – Defense Analyst, China Landpower Studies Center
Scudieri, Dr. James D. – Senior Research Historian
Shekleton, COL Michael Anthony (Shek) – SRAD Director
Taylor, Mrs. Kristen – Visual Information Specialist/Content Manager
Vartanian, Dr. Jake – Military Analyst, Landpower and Warfare