Mackubin T. Owens is Associate Dean of Academics for Electives and Directed Research and Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and an Adjunct Fellow of the Ashbrook Center. He is also Editor of Orbis, the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s (FPRI) quarterly journal of international affairs, and Senior Fellow at its Program on National Security. In addition, from 1990-97, Dr. Owens was Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly defense journal Strategic Review and Adjunct Professor of International Relations at Boston University . He served as a Marine infantry platoon commander in Vietnam (1968-69) where he was twice wounded and awarded the Silver Star medal. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1994. Dr. Owens earned his Ph.D. from the University of Dallas, his M.A. in economics from Oklahoma University and his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Dr. Owens is a contributing editor to National Review Online. His articles on national security issues have appeared in publications including International Security, Orbis, Armed Forces Journal, Joint Force Quarterly, The Public Interest, The Weekly Standard, Defence Analysis, US Naval Institute Proceedings, Marine Corps Gazette, Comparative Strategy, National Review, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Jerusalem Post, St. Louis Lawyer, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is co-editor of the textbook Strategy and Force Planning, now in its fourth edition, and author of the FPRI monograph, Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Democratic Statesmanship in Wartime (2009) He is currently at work writing two books on American civil-military relations.
Before joining the faculty of the War College, Dr. Owens served as National Security Adviser to Senator Bob Kasten (R-WI) and Director of Legislative Affairs for the Nuclear Weapons Programs of the Department of Energy during the Reagan administration. He has taught at the University of Rhode Island, the University of Dallas, Catholic University, and the Marine Corps’ School of Advanced Warfighting (SAW) He has been a program officer for the Smith Richardson Foundation, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Naval Analyses and a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Plans Division, Headquarters Marine Corps; and J-5 Strategy, the Joint Staff.
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Written by Mackubin T. Owens
- Civil Military Relations - January 18, 2011
- Cap and Trade - August 12, 2009
- Obama: Be nice to our enemies, but hector our friends - July 25, 2009
- Last Essay on Civil War Campaign - May 14, 2009
- The End of the Civil War in Virginia - May 11, 2009
- Civil War Series: The Atlanta Campaign - May 7, 2009
- Series on Civil War Campaigns - May 5, 2009
- Some Thoughts on Piracy - April 18, 2009
- Shameless Self-Promotion - April 10, 2009
- What to Do About Pirates - April 9, 2009
- What You Find in the Middle of the Road - February 11, 2009
- Shameless Self-Promotion: FPRI Monograph: Lincoln as War President - February 4, 2009
- The Future Focus of US Military Force Structure - January 27, 2009
- The Idiossey of Obamacles - January 23, 2009
- General Victor Krulak, RIP - January 15, 2009
- Reid and Burris - January 5, 2009
- Sam Huntington, Scholar and Gentleman - December 29, 2008
- "Deep Throat" and the Crisis of Journalism - December 23, 2008
- Lincoln, Obama, and Bush - December 23, 2008
- More on Civil-Military Relations - December 18, 2008
- Gen. Shinseki, the Silence of the Generals, and the State of US Civil-Military Relations - December 16, 2008
- And Yet More on Gen. Shinseki - December 15, 2008
- Further Observations About Gen. Shinseki - December 11, 2008
- The Use and Abuse of Gen. Eric Shinseki - December 9, 2008
- Bush and Security Until January 20. A Lesson from Lincoln - November 21, 2008
- Memo to Barack Obama: It’s Easier to be President When You’re Not - November 17, 2008
- John Ripley, RIP - November 17, 2008
- John Ripley, Hero - November 7, 2008
- A Crisis in Civil-Military Relations? - September 24, 2008
- The Haditha Narrative Continues to Unravel - June 19, 2008
- Congress and High Gasoline Prices - May 29, 2008
- Heroes! We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Heroes! - May 19, 2008
- Thinking About the "American Way of War" - April 18, 2008
- More on Obama’s Religion - March 24, 2008
- Obama’s Religion - March 23, 2008
- The Fall of Admiral George B. McFallon - March 12, 2008
- McCain’s Appeal - February 4, 2008
- Long War(s) - January 19, 2008
- New Jersey’s Apology for Slavery - January 11, 2008
- Congress’s Energy Bill: Lipstick on a Pig - December 12, 2007
- The Gettysburg Controversies, Part I - December 10, 2007
- How the Confederates Won - November 20, 2007
- Emancipation as a Political-military strategy - November 13, 2007
- Veterans’ Day, 2007 - November 12, 2007
- A Visit to Antietam and Reflections on Civil Liberties During the Civil War - November 5, 2007
- Huntington’s The Soldier and the State at Fifty - October 30, 2007
- The Civil War Continued - October 25, 2007
- - October 12, 2007
- Disgraceful Senate Democrats - September 21, 2007
- Aaarrghh! - September 19, 2007
- Antietam - September 17, 2007
- No Such Thing as a Stupid Question? Not So Fast, My Friend! - September 11, 2007
- Counterinsurgency Comeback - September 6, 2007
- More Civil War Stuff - August 30, 2007
- The French and Hollywood - February 10, 2003
- Powell’s Speech - February 5, 2003
- Our Friends the French - February 5, 2003
- The Two-Major Theater War Standard - January 8, 2003
- The President’s Economic Package - January 8, 2003
