The Limits of Transformation Officer Attitudes Toward the Revolution in Military Affairs Naval War College Newport Papers 17

Thomas G.Mahnken is Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. He served formerly in the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment as a member of the Secretary of the Air Force's Gulf War Air Power Survey and as a National Security Fellow at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Professor Mahnken is a graduate of the University of Southern California with degrees in history and international relations, and he earned his MA and Ph.D in international affairs from The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941 (Cornell University Press, 2002) and co-editor of The Journal of Strategic Studies. He has written numerous journal articles on strategy, intelligence, and military transformation. James R. FitzSimonds is a research professor with the War Gaming Department of the U.S. Naval War College, where he holds the EMC Corporation Chair of Information Technology. Professor FitzSimonds retired from the U.S. Navy as a captain in 2001 after a 27-year career in surface line and intelligence. His sea service included duty in USS Blakely (FF-1072), USS Enterprise (CVN-65), and the staff of Cruiser-Destroyer Group Two/USS America (CV-66) Battle Group. His shore assignments included tours with the Chief of Naval Operations Current Intelligence Division, the Navy Operational Intelligence Center Detachment (Newport), the CNO Strategic Studies Group, and the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and earned his MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.