Charles R. Miller

Charles Russell "Charlie" Miller (born November 17, 1967) is a retired United States Army major general who last served as Director, Strategy, Plans and Policy of the Army Staff from July 2022 to July 2024. He served as the Director for Plans, Policy, Strategy, and Capabilities of the U.S. European Command from July 2020 to June 2022. Prior to that, he served in two general officer billets as the deputy director of Joint Strategic Planning, Strategy, Plans, and Policy of the Joint Staff from July 2019 to July 2020 and as the Deputy Director of Strategy, Plans, and Policy at U.S. Central Command from October 2017 to June 2019, after a stint in Combined Joint Task Force-OIR during the Defeat ISIS campaign.

Education Born in Staunton, Virginia and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, His thesis advisors were Robert Jervis and Richard Betts.

From 2008 to 2009, Miller served as a senior advisor to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen. From 2009 to 2011, he served on the U.S. National Security Council as Director for Iraq. Miller was one of the first fellows at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. He later worked as a senior advisor to Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey and Joseph Dunford.

In January 2022, Miller was reassigned to the Army Staff as the Director, Strategy, Plans and Policy, replacing Major General Bradley Gericke.