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                                                                           Vita

                                                            Thomas R. Mockaitis

 

EDUCATION:

 

Ph.D., Modern Britain and Ireland, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988

           

M.A., Modern Britain and Ireland, U.W.-Madison, 1982

 

B.A., Modern European History, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA., 1977

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:

 

Professor of History, DePaul University, 1999 – present

 

Consultant, Institute for Security Governance,  Naval Postgraduate School, 2002-present

 

Eisenhower Chair, Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands, Fall 2004

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

Monographs:

 

Violent Extremists: Understanding the Domestic and International Terrorist Threat (ABC-CLIO/Praeger, 2019).

 

Conventional and Unconventional War: A History of Conflict in the Modern World (ABC-CLIO/Praeger, 2017).

 

The COIN Conundrum (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2016.

 

Soldiers of Misfortune? (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2014)

Avoiding the Slippery Slope: Conducting Effective Interventions” (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2012)

 

Resolving Insurgencies (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2011)

 

Osama bin Laden: a Biography, (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2010)

 

Iraq and the Challenge of Counterinsurgency (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008)

 

The “New” Terrorism: Myths and Reality [paperback edition] (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008)

 

The “New” Terrorism: Myths and Reality (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007)

 

The Iraq War: Learning from the Past, Adapting to the Present, Preparing for the Future (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007/forthcoming in February)

 

Civil-Military Cooperation in Peace Operations: The Case of Kosovo (Carlisle Barracks, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2004)

 

Peacekeeping in Intrastate Conflict: The Sword or the Olive Branch.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger Pub., 1999.

 

British Counterinsurgency in the Post-Imperial Era (Manchester U. Press, 1995)    

 

British Counterinsurgency, 1919-1960, (London:  Macmillian Ltd., 1990)

 

 

Edited Volumes

 

The Iraq War: A Documentary and Reference Guide (Westport, CT: Greenwood 2012)

 

CIMIC [Civil-military Cooperation] and CT [Counterterrorism], special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies, vol. 17, no. 4 (December 2006), co-edited with Joseph Soeters and Mirjam Granda

 

The Future of Peace Operations: Old Challenge for a New CenturySmall Wars and Insurgencies, 15/2 (Fall 2004); co-edited with Erwin Schmidl

 

Grand Strategy in the War on Terrorism, Tom Mockaitis and Brian Rich (London: Frank Cass, 2003).

 

 

Articles and Chapters:

 

“Maritime Terrorism in the Sulu Sea,” in Paul Shemella, ed., Riders on the Storm: How Governments can Manage Maritime Violence (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015).

 

“British Counterinsurgency: Myth or Reality?” in Lawrence Cline and Paul Shemella, Lawrence Cline and Paul Shemella, eds., The Future of Counterinsurgency: Contemporary Debates in Internal Security Strategy (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2015), pp. 33-48.

 

The London Bombings: A Case Study in Effective Consequence Management,” in Denis Caleta and Paul Shemella, eds., Managing the Consequences of Terrorist Acts—Efficiency and Coordination Challenges (Ljubljana, Slovenia: Institute for Cooperative Security Studies, 2012).

 

“The Minimum Force Debate: Imperial Practice Meets Contemporary Sensibilities,” Small Wars and Insurgencies, vol. 23, issues 4-5 (2012): 762-80.

 

“Terrorism, Insurgency and Organized Crime,” in Paul Shemella, ed., Fighting Back: What Government can do about Terrorism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011): 11-26.

 

“The Mumbai Attacks,” in Paul Shemella, ed., Fighting Back: What Government can do about Terrorism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011): 317-331.

 

“The Irish Republican Army,” in Paul Shemella, ed., Fighting Back: What Government can do about Terrorism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011): 332-49.

 

 “Counterinsurgency Doctrine: the U.S. Experience,” in Modern War and the Utility of Force: Challenges, Methods and Strategy, Jan Agnstrom and Isabelle Duyvesteyn (London: Routledge, 2010), 142-158.

 

“Security Sector Restructuring, the U.S. Experience,” Journal of the Slovenian Armed Forces (Spring 2010).

 

“South Eastern European Security: Terrorism in Context,” in Counterterrorism Challenges in South Eastern Europe, special issue of Journal of the Slovenian Armed Forces, September 2008

 

“The Phoenix of Counterinsurgency,” Conflict Quarterly, XXVII, 1 (Summer 2007).

 

“Winning Hearts and Minds: the Unlearned Lesson of Counterinsurgency,” Militaire Spectator (NL), 174/6, 2005.

 

“Nonviolence and the ‘War’ on Terrorism,” in Religion, Terrorism an Globalization. Nonviolence: A New Agenda (Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2006).

 

”Counter-terrorism,” in Andrew Tan, The Politics of Terrorism (London: Europa Routldege, 2006).

 

”Terrorism,” in Europe, 1914-2004 (Farmington, MI: Charles Scribner/Thompson Gale, 2006).

 

“Introduction: The Phoenix of Peacekeeping,” in The Future of Peace Operations: Old Challenge for a New CenturySmall Wars and Insurgencies.

 

“Reluctant Partners: Civil-Military Cooperation in Kosovo,” The Future of Peace Operations: Old Challenge for a New Century, Small Wars and Insurgencies.

 

“Winning Hearts and Minds in the War on Terrorism," Terrorism and Grand Strategy (London: Frank Cass, 2003).

 

"The Future of Terrorism Studies," Terrorism and Grand Strategy (London: Frank Cass, 2003).

 

”Terrorism Past and Present,” World Book: Focus on Terrorism (Chicago: World Book Inc., 2003).

 

"British Army," review essay in Readers Guide to Military History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

 

"Former Yugoslavia," review essay in Readers Guide to Military History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

 

"Oman and Dhofar," review essay in Readers Guide to Military History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

 

"Cyprus Emergency," review essay in Readers Guide to Military History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).

 

Bridging the Gap: Humanitarian Organizations and the Military in Peace Operations," in Erich Reiter, Jahrbuch für internationale Sicherheitspolitik 2000 (Vienna: Mittler, 2000).

 

“From Counterinsurgency to Peace Enforcement: New Names for Old Games?,” in Erwin Schmidl, ed. Peace Operations Between War and Peace (London: Frank Cass, 2000).

 

“From Counterinsurgency to Peace Enforcement: New Names for Old Games?,” Small Wars and Insurgencies 10/2 (Autumn 1999).

 

"From Counterinsurgency to Peacemaking: New Applications for an Old Approach,” Saving Democracies: U.S. Intervention in Threatened Democratic States (Westport, CT: Praeger 1999).

 

“From Counterinsurgency to Peace Enforcement: New Names for Old Games?” in Erwin Schmidl, ed., Peace Operations Between Peace and War: Four Studies (Vienna: Military Science Bureau of the Austrian Ministry of Defense, 1998):  21-36; also to be published first as a special edition of Small Wars and Insurgencies (10/1) and then as a book by Frank Cass.

 

"Peacekeeping in Intra-state Conflicts," Small Wars and Insurgencies, 6/1 (Spring 1995):  112-125.

 

"Unconventional Conflicts" in Sam Sarkesian, ed., America's Armed Forces:  A Handbook of Current and Future Capabilities (Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Pub., 1996):  387-416.

 

“Intervention in Civil Conflict: Peace-Keeping or Enforcement” in Alex Morrison and James Kiras, eds.   Peacekeeping with Muscle  (Clementsport, Nova Scotia:  Lester Pearson Canadian Peacekeeping Centre 1997):  31-50.

 

"Peacekeeping in Intra-state Conflicts," Small Wars and Insurgencies, 6/1 (Spring 1995):  112-25.

 

"Low-intensity Conflict:  The British Experience,"  Conflict Quarterly, 13/1 (Winter 1993):  7-16.

 

"Sir Walter Scott and the Problem of Revolution," Scott in Carnival.  J.H. Alexander and David Hewitt, eds.  Aberdeen, Scotland:  University of Aberdeen, 1993.  418-33.

 

“Minimum Force, British Counterinsurgency and the Mau Mau Rebellion: A Reply,”

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 3/2 (Autumn 1991):  87-9.

 

"A New Era of Counterinsurgency."  Journal of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, 136/1 (Spring 1991):  73-8.

 

"The Origins of British Counterinsurgency."  Small Wars and Insurgencies, 1/3 (Dec. 1990):  209-25.

 

 

Editorials:

 

“Terrorism Has No Religion,” Chicago Tribune, July 25, 2011.

 

“Rhetoric and Guns,” Chicago Tribune, April 1, 2010, p. 17

 

“Paying the Piper,” Chicago Tribune, August 13, 2008, p. 21

 

Embarrassing Questions,” Chicago Tribune, December 10, 2004, p. 17

 

“The Politics of Fear,” Chicago Tribune, August 10, 2004, p. 17

 

“Unlearned Lessons from a Forgotten War,” Chicago Tribune, p. 29.

 

 

PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS AND OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES:

 

Chair, “Countering Radicalization,” ICAP Conference, Chicago 2011

 

“The Minimum Force Debate: Imperial History meets Contemporary Values,” invited keynote address,

 

“Hearts and Minds or Butcher and Bolt,” conference on British Counterinsurgency, London, September 15-16, 2011.

 

“Preserving the Past as Present: Historians and Military Operations,” invited presentation, conference commemorating 50 years of Austrian participation in UN Peace Keeping, National Defense Academy of Austria, Vienna, October 2010.

 

“The UN in an Ear of Unconventional Conflict,” Conference on International Law and Armed Conflict co-sponsored by DePaul University International Human Rights Law Institute, United Nations, and Defense Institute of International Legal Studies, New York, July 2010

 

“The New Security Environment,” McCormick Days, invited keynote speaker, October 2009

 

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency, invited presentation to Princes Patricia Regiment, Canadian Armed Forces, Edmonton, Alberta, February 2009

 

“The British Army and Internal Security,” symposium on Irish History, Madison, WI, November 2008

 

“How Insurgencies End,” invited paper presentation to the Rand Corporation Counterinsurgency group, May 2008

 

“Insurgency – A Historical Perspective,” invited presentation to 10th Mountain Division, January 16, 2007

 

Counterinsurgency, invited presentation to students in Foreign Threat University Program, US Army Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, April 2, 2007

 

“From COIN to Counter-terrorism,” invited presentation to Canadian Forces Staff College, Toronto, Canada, May 23, 2007

 

“Counterinsurgency and Afghanistan,” invited presentation to Royal Canadian Regiment as part of “Exercise Walking Bear,” Petawawa, Ontario, CA, 12 January 2007

 

“Sources of Insecurity: Global Challenges for a New Century,” invited presentation for Austrian National Defense Academy Symposium, “Comprehensive International Engagement in Conflicts--Civil-Military Interaction as Challenge and Opportunity, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 November 2006

 

“The Phoenix of Counterinsurgency,” invited Civilian Keynote Address at conference on Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, co-hosted by Gregg Centre for the Study of Conflict and Society and the Canadian Forces Training Centre, 12-13 October

 

“Counter-terrorism,” invited lecture, Baltic Defense College, Tartu, Estonia, March 2006

“From Counterinsurgency to Counter-Terrorism,” invited lecture, Canadian Forces Staff College, March 2006

 

“The Global War on Terrorism as a Global Counterinsurgency Campaign,” invited presentation, George C. Marshall Center for European Security, February 2006

 

“The Global War on Terrorism as a Global Counterinsurgency Campaign,” invited presentation, George C. Marshall Center for European Security, November 2005

 

”CIMIC and CT: an Academic Approach,” invited presentation at conference sponsored by CIMIC Group North, Budel, NL, November 2005.

 

”Civil-Military Cooperation and Terrorism,” paper presented at the Inter-University Seminary on Armed Forces and Society Conference panel, “CIMIC, A Versatile Approach,” October 2005.

 

Organized and Chaired IUS Conference panel, “CIMIC, A Versatile Approach, October 2005.

 

Chair, IUS Panel, “Terrorism and the Post-9/11 World,” October 2005

 

”Insurgency, Terrorism and Organized Crime,” invited presentation, George C. Marshall Center for European Security, July 2005

 

Eisenhower Memorial Lecture, “CIMIC and the War on Terrorism,” Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands, October 2004

 

Invited Lecture, Terrorism and Counterinsurgency, Baltic Defense College, Tartu, Estonia, October 2004

 

Invited Lecture, Winning Hearts and Minds in Counterinsurgency, Military History Society, Ministry of Defense, the Hague, Nov. 2004

 

Invited Lecture, U.S., Europe and Combating Terrorism, Royal Naval Academy of the Netherlands, Den Helder, Netherlands, Nov. 2004

 

Invited Lecture, “U.S. Security and European Relations,” Avans Academy, S’Hertegenbosch, Netherlands, Nov. 2004

 

Invited Lecture, CIMIC and Counter-terrorism, CIMIC Group North (NATO), Nov. 2004

 

“The Occupation Government that Wasn’t: Kosovo, June to December 1999,” Conference on Military Occupation Government, Diplomatische Akademie, Vienna Austria, May 2004 (my paper was read as I was unable to attend).

 

Invited Lecture on Counterinsurgency, Canadian Defense College, Toronto, Canada, May 2004

 

"The Future of Peace Operations," Conference on Peacekeeping Co-sponsored by the Austrian National Defense Academy and DePaul University, Vienna, Austria, May 2002

 

Counterinsurgency and War on Terrorism, USMC Command and General Staff College, April 2002

 

Counterinsurgency, Guest Lecture, Canadian Forces College, December, 10 2001.

 

Presentation on Kosovo Research, College of Lake Forest, 12, 2001.

 

Peace Operations, Guest Lecture, US Marine Corps Command and General Staff College, April 2001.

 

NATO and Peace Operations: The Case of Kosovo, Peacekeeping and the 21st Century, conference, Vienna, Austria, October 2000.

 

"Bosnia, Kosovo and the Crisis of Just War Theory," Parliament of the World's Religions, Cape Town, South Africa, December 1-8, 1999.

 

Implications for Future Military Interventions," at "What After NATO's Battle for Kosovo/a?" conference, University of Michigan, Center for Russian and East European Studies, October 9, 1999

 

"Bridging the Gap: NGOs and the Military in Peace Operations," Conference sponsored by Militarwissenschaftliches Buro des BMLV (Military Science Department of the Austrian Ministry of Defense), Vienna, Austria, April 26, 1999.

 

Chair and Commentator, Panel on Britain and World War II, Midwest Conference on British Studies, October 23, 1999

 

"Counterinsurgency: Law and Legitimacy,@ presentation, U.S. Information Agency Seminar for Columbian community leaders/academics, Houston Texas, February 1998.

 

"From Counterinsurgency to Peace Enforcement: New Names for Old Games?,” paper, Peacekeeping Seminar sponsored by Militarwissenschaftliches Buro des BMLV (Military Science Department of the Austrian Ministry of Defense), Vienna, Austria, November 1997.

 

“From Counterinsurgency to Peace Operations,” presentation, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association, Norfolk, Va., Oct. 1997.

 

“Peacekeeping,” presentation, staff seminar, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, U.K., Aug. 1997.

 

“From Counterinsurgency to Peacekeeping,” presentations, conference co-sponsored by St. Joseph’s U. and the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Phil., Pa. May 1997

 

“Intervention in Civil Conflict: Peacekeeping or Enforcement?” Peacekeeping with Muscle, Lester Pearson Canadian Peacekeeping Centre Round table, May 1996.  Paper accepted for publication in conference proceedings.   

 

British Counterinsurgency, guest lecture at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and General Staff College, April 1996

 

The U.N., NATO, and the U.S. Military:  The Case of Bosnia, "National Strategy Forum Workshop, May 1995.

 

"Keeping the Peace:  Counterinsurgency in the Post-imperial Era." Paper presented to the seminar, Royal Military Academy,  Sandhurst, United Kingdom, July 1993.

 

"Low-Intensity Conflict:  The British Experience." Paper presented at conference on "Low-Intensity Conflict:  The New Face of Battle?." Centre for Conflict Studies, University of New Brunswick, Canada, Sept. 1991.

 

"Sir Walter Scott and the Problem of Revolution." Paper presented at Fourth International Scott Conference, University of Edinburgh, Aug. 1991.

 

"Malaya, a Reappraisal," Paper presented to the Staff Seminar, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, United Kingdom, July 1987.

 

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

 

Cortelyou-Lowery Award for Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service, October 2008

 

Spirit of Inquiry Award, DePaul University, September 2007

 

Academic Leave, Fall 2007

 

LA&S Summer Grant, 2006 ($4200)

 

LA&S Summer Grant, 2003 ($4200)

 

U.S. Institute of Peace Grant, 2001-2 ($40,000).

 

 

Phi Beta Kappa

Honors in History

Magna Cum Laude

Dean's List, four years, Allegheny College.

 

LANGUAGES:

 

French

 

German

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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