Iraq, Terrorism, Homeland Defense

John Steinbruner - professor and director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: international security issues, including arms control and nuclear weapons; managing bioterror risk

Credentials: member, National Academies' Committee on International Security and Arms Control; former director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; author, Principles of Global Security
Contact: 301-405-4578 (office); 202-244-9142 (home); js526@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/steinbrunerm.html

William J. Lahneman - program coordinator, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: maritime security; counter-terrorism; national and international security; future of intelligence analysis; training future intelligence analysts

Credentials: coordinates Maryland's National Intelligence Council Project, providing a liaison between the intelligence community, academia and other nongovernmental sources; Commander, U.S. Navy (retired), served on a number of combatant ships; consultant on maritime security issues
Contact: 301-405-7602 (office); 410-741-5905 (home); wl74@umail.umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/lahnemanm.html

Adm. Stansfield Turner (USN Ret.) - senior research scholar, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: terrorism; arms control and nuclear weapons; intelligence operations; national and international security; U.S. foreign policy; naval operations

Credentials: director, CIA, under President Carter; former commander, U.S. Second Fleet and NATO Striking Fleet, Atlantic; author of numerous books and articles, including Ten Steps to Fight Terrorism Without Endangering Democracy
Contact: 202-266-5441 (office 1); 301-405-6365 (office 2); or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/turnerm.html

George Quester - professor of government and politics, University of Maryland
Expertise: national security; international military and security policy

Credentials: taught at National War College and U.S. Naval Academy; has written or edited numerous books, including Security Studies for the 21st Century
Contact: 301-405-4146 (office); 703-534-1396 (home); gquester@gvpt.umd.edu
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/quester/

Natalie Goldring - executive director of the Program on Global Security and Disarmament at the University of Maryland
Expertise: disarmament (including Iraq, Iran and North Korea); nuclear proliferation; war on terror; international security; arms control

Credentials: worked with non-government organizations for over 15 years, including the British American Security Information Council and the Defense Budget Project; serves on the editorial board for The Nonproliferation Review, as well as the boards of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies and Women in International Security; wrote articles, book chapters and monographs on a variety of international security issues Contact: 301-405-3537 (office); 703-243-6097 (home); 571-275-6097 (cell phone); ngoldring@gvpt.umd.edu
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/pgsd/people/individuals/natalie.htm

I. M. Destler - professor and director of the Program on International Security and Economic Policy, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs; visiting fellow, Institute for International Economics
Expertise: homeland security reorganization; international security; National Security Council; U.S. foreign policy; international trade policy

Credentials: coauthored Protecting the American Homeland and Assessing the Department of Homeland Security, consulted for the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State on government organization for economic and foreign policy-making; currently writing a history of the National Security Council
Contact: 301-405-6357 (office); 202-328-9000 (alternate office); 703-759-0588 (home); mdestler@wam.umd.edu
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/destlerm.html

Jacques Gansler - professor of public policy and director of the Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise, University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs
Expertise: advanced defense technology; homeland security reorganization; defense industries; government acquisition

Credentials: undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, 1997-2001, responsible for all Department of Defense acquisitions, logistics and research and development, including defense technology, biological, chemical and nuclear programs
Contact: 301-405-4794 (office); jg311@umail.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/ganslerm.html

U.S. Military
David R. Segal - professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland
Expertise: military leadership, morale and performance; performance of U.S. peace-keeping forces; volunteer army vs. draft

Credentials: president, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society, the major military international scholarly organization; during the early years of volunteer military force, directed the sociological research program at the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences; tracked American peacekeeping operations in the Sinai over the past two decades; books include, The Postmodern Military
Contact: 301-405-6439 (office); dsegal@socy.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/dsegal.html

U.S. Military
Mady Wechsler Segal - professor of sociology and associate director of the Center for Research on Military Organization at the University of Maryland
Expertise: military sociology; military personnel and family issues; women in the military

Credentials: chaired the Scientific Advisory Committee for the U.S. Army Research Institute's Army Family Research Program; member of the National Academies' Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel; human resource consultant to the Secretary of the Army; special assistant to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; and a member of the Congressional Commission on Military Training and Gender-Related Issues; author, several books, including Peacekeepers and their Wives: American Participation in the Multinational Force and Observers.
Contact: 301-405-6433 (office); msegal@socy.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/msegal.html

Attacks on U.S. Troops
Warren Campbell - lecturer, Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, University of Maryland; retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Service Corps
Expertise: risks and amelioration of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents in both military and civilian settings; specialist in combat medical operations and nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) casualty care Credentials: temporarily recalled to active duty in 2002, for Operation Enduring Freedom, as director of health services support for a Combined Joint Task Force in Kuwait, designated to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high explosive events in the Middle East, Afghanistan, or the Horn of Africa; retired in 1993 as project officer for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
Contact: 301-226-9936 (office); 240-882-3718 (cell); wcampbell@mfri.org
Web site: www.mfri.org/

Language Study and National Security
Richard D. Brecht - director, National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
Expertise: military and intelligence applications of language study; foreign language acquisition

Credentials: co-author of Language and National Security in the 21st Century, author of numerous articles on advanced language acquisition and language policy
Contact: 301-403-1750 (office 1); 202-637-8881 (office 2); rdbrecht@aol.com; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.nflc.org/

Language Study and National Security
William P. Rivers - assistant director, National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland
Expertise: language and national security; military and intelligence applications of language study; second language acquisition; language policy in the U.S. and Central Asia

Credentials: co-author of Language and National Security in the 21st Century
Contact: 301-403-1750 (office 1); 202-637-8881 (office 2); wrivers@nflc.org; or Neil Tickner, 301-405-4622, 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.nflc.org/

Terrorism Trends
Gary LaFree - sociologist, professor of criminology, University of Maryland
Expertise: trends in terrorism; national and international crime trends

Credentials: analyzing and expanding comprehensive database of terrorist events, covering the period from 1970 to 1999, in part, to determine whether incidence of terrorism correlates with political, economic and social stability; author of Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America
Contact: 301-405-4714 (office); GLaFree@crim.umd.edu; or Neil Tickner at 301-405-4622; 301-257-0073 (after-hours)
Web site: www.bsos.umd.edu/ccjs/faculty/lafree/index.html