Russell D. Howard

Russell D. Howard is a veteran officer of the United States Army Special Forces, professor of international studies and terrorism studies, writer, and counterterrorism strategist. He held the command of the Airborne 1st Special Forces Group at Fort Lewis and also created the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. From 2012 to 2014, Howard was the director of the Monterey Terrorism Research and Education Program (MonTREP) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), where he served as an adjunct professor for over a decade. He has owned cattle ranches in California and Minnesota. He is the director of a company called Howard Consulting Services, and a Senior Fellow at Joint Special Operations University. He is fluent in Mandarin and German.

Howard was head of the Department of Social Sciences and the founding director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. His previous positions include deputy department head of the Department of Social Sciences, Army Chief of Staff Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and commander of the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Lewis, Washington.

Books and publications Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and Interpretations, Russell D. Howard, Reid L. Sawyer and Natasha Bajema (2003) Revised & Updated (2008) Defeating Terrorism, Russell D. Howard, Reid L. Sawyer Homeland Security and Terrorism, Russell D. Howard, James Forest, Joanne Moore (2005) Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Russell D. Howard and James J.F. Forest (Eds). With Natasha E. Bajema Intelligence in Denied Areas: Russell D. Howard Northeast Asia Regional Security and the United States Military: Context, Presence, and Roles, Susan F. Bryant, Russell D. Howard, Jay M. Parker, and Albert S. Wilner, INSS Occasional Paper 47, November 2002, USAF Institute for National Security Studies, USAF Academy, Colorado The Chinese People's Liberation Army: "Short Arms and Slow Legs," Russell D. Howard, INSS Occasional Paper 28, Regional Security Series, September 1999, USAF Institute for National Security Studies, USAF Academy, Colorado Thinking Creatively in the War on Terrorism – Leveraging NATO and the Partnership for Peace Consortium Intelligence in Denied Spaces: New Concepts for a Changing Security Environment (2007) Educating Special Forces Junior Leaders for a Complex Security Environment (2009) Cultural and Linguistic Skills Acquisition for Special Forces: Necessity, Acceleration, and Potential Alternatives (2011) The Nexus of Extremism and Trafficking: Scourge of the World or So Much Hype? (2013), and The Asia Pivot: Implica- tions for U.S. Special Operations Forces (2016)