Dr. Gregory Smolynec

Dr. Anton Minkov

Julian Schofield (PhD Columbia) is associate professor of political science at Concordia University, Montreal. His research is primarily focused on conventional and nuclear arms races in the developing world.

He has conducted field research in Pakistan (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005), as well India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Egypt. His other on-going research includes South, Southeast and East Asian security issues; military decision-making; theory of strategic and naval arms control; combat performance and training; ballistic missile defense; defense budgeting; political economy of military regimes.

His publications include Militarization and War (2007 Palgrave Macmillan), and articles in Defense and Security Analysis, Third World Quarterly, Journal of Conflict, Security and Development, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Armed Forces & Society, International Relations, and Journal of Strategic Studies.

He is currently completing two SSHRCs, including one focused on nuclear weapons sharing. Schofield has frequent media contacts, including al Jazeera, and has been a consultant for DND and DFAIT on South Asia, particularly Pakistan, and the DOD on missile defense. He was also an army reserve officer between 1989 and 2003.

Trudy Rubin is the foreign affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and a member of The Inquirer's editorial board. Her column appears twice weekly in The Inquirer and runs regularly in many other newspapers. In 2001, Ms. Rubin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Price for her columns on Israel and the Palestinians. In 2008 she was awarded the Edward Weintal award for International Reporting. She is the author of Willful Blindness: The Bush Administration and Iraq.

Ms. Rubin has special expertise on the Middle East and Russia. In 2003-2009 she made ten trips to Iraq and visited Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, China and South Korea. In recent years she has also visited, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Central Asia, Russia and Georgia.

Before coming to The Inquirer in December 1983, she was Middle East correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, and national correspondent for The Monitor, covering election campaigns and political and social issues. Prior to that she was a staff writer on American politics for The Economist of London.

In 1990 she was an exchange journalist at The Moscow News in Moscow. She has held fellowships at Harvard University, and the East-West Center in Honolulu, and was an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow in Cairo and Beirut.

She holds a B.A. from Smith College and an Msc.(Econ) from The London School of Economics. In 2007 she was awarded the Smith medal for distinguished alumnae.

SGM Robert Haemmerle

SGM Robert Haemmerle is currently assigned to the Warrior Transition Unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. SGM Haemmerle works on biometrics' issues for the Army G2 as part of the "Operation Warfighter " program at the Pentagon for Warriors in Transition. SGM Haemmerle will return to Afghanistan early next year to support the United States Forces- Afghanistan Biometrics Task Force.

SGM Haemmerle is a graduate of the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy and the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy. SGM Haemmerle has three prior deployments to Operation Enduring Freedom and two deployments to Operation Iraqi Freedom. SGM Haemmerle's currents efforts are focused around training programs that integrate biometrics into Counterinsurgency operations.

SGM Haemmerle's last operational deployment was from July 2006 through October 2008.SGM Haemmerle supported the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) intiative on biometrics in Iraq and Afghanistan. SGM Haemmerle served as the Combined Joint Task Force- Afghanistan Biometrics Master Gunner from June 2007 through October 2008.

Dr. Chistopher Schnaubelt

Christopher (Chris) Schnaubelt holds the Transformation Chair at the NATO Defense College, Rome. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California Santa Barbara with specializations in International Relations Theory and Public Policy. His dissertation analyzed the effectiveness of US policy in deterring international terrorism. Additionally, he holds a Master of Strategic Studies degree and is a graduate of the US Army War College.

Prior to coming to the NATO Defense College, Dr. Schnaubelt worked for the US Department of State as the Deputy Director for National Security Affairs, Joint Strategic Planning and Assessment Office, in the US Embassy Baghdad, Iraq. He served as the embassy's lead for writing the 2006 Joint Campaign Action Plan and the 2007-09 Joint Campaign Plan in coordination with HQ Multi-National Force-Iraq and was also a co-director of the Joint Strategic Assessment Team. In recognition of his accomplishments, General David Petraeus presented the Commander's Award for Public Service to Dr. Schnaubelt.

Dr. Schnaubelt served more than 24 years in the California Army National Guard before transferring to the US Army Individual Ready Reserve as a colonel in 2005. His military assignments included training regiment and installation commander, tank battalion commander, executive officer of an armor-heavy brigade, deputy operations officer of a mechanized infantry division, brigade intelligence officer, tank company commander, and combat support company commander. He was also chief of staff for a multi-national brigade during two PEACESHIELD exercises in Ukraine. In 2004, he was the Chief of Policy in the Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate (C-5) of Combined Joint Task Force Seven (CJTF-7) in Baghdad, Iraq and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Combat Action Badge.

During 2000-2003, Dr. Schnaubelt was an instructor for Columbia College and taught courses on U.S. legislative processes, public administration and policy, the American presidency, and the dynamics of terrorism. He also was on the adjunct faculty of the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies, lecturing on civil-military operations and the principles of democratic civilian control of the military as part of Mobile Education Teams to Beirut, Lebanon and Cotonou, Benin.

From 1990 through 2001, he was assigned to the National Interagency Civil-Military Institute (NICI) at Camp San Luis Obispo, California. As senior policy analyst and later as chief of the Research and Analysis Division, he directed the development and publishing of lessons learned from military counter-drug support and military support to civil authorities operations and collaborated with the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the US Naval Postgraduate School to help develop and instruct education programs designed to build and strengthen democratic institutions. In 2000 he was assigned as chief of the Training Division with responsibilities that included the direction and supervision of curriculum development, exercise development, and conduct of courses as well as leading and managing a full-time training staff of 21 instructors and approximately 100 contracted/guest instructors focused on graduating 1500 civilian and military students per year.

Dr. Schnaubelt has published numerous articles on security issues and interagency and civil-military operations, including "Whither the RMA?" in the Autumn 2007 issue of Parameters, NDC Research Paper #40 "What NATO can learn from "the surge" in Iraq," and an Op-Ed in the International Herald Tribune on "Lessons of Iraq." Most recently, he edited and wrote two chapters for NDC Forum Paper #9: Operationalizing a comprehensive approach in semi-permissive environments.