Dr. Rich Yarger is the Ministry Reform Advisor in the Security, Reconstruction and Transition Division of the Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Institute in September 2009, he served as Professor of National Security Policy in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College where he held the Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies and taught courses in: Fundamentals of Strategic Thinking; Theory of War and Strategy; National Security Policy and Strategy; Grand Strategy; Terrorism; and the Interagency. His research focuses on strategic theory, national security policy and strategy, terrorism, irregular warfare, effective governance, and the education and development of strategic level leaders. In addition to teaching positions, he served five years as the Chairman of the War College’s Department of Distance Education.  Dr. Yarger has also taught at the undergraduate level at several local colleges. His latest work, Strategy and the National Security Professional: Strategic Thinking and Strategy Formulation in the 21^st Century was released by Praeger Security International in July of 2008.  A retired Army colonel, he is a Vietnam veteran and served in both Germany and Korea. He is a graduate of the Army War College and obtained his doctorate in history from Temple University with fields in U.S. military history, U.S. diplomatic history, European Diplomatic history, and American social history.