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	Faculty Biographies
	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC
Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Lieutenant Colonel John Kane is a Marine Aviation Command and Control Officer and Foreign Area Officer, former Soviet Union.

In Marine aviation, LtCol Kane has served in various operational capacities with Marine Air Support Squadrons and Marine Tactical Air Command Centers in the Far East, United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Staff assignments include Executive Officer of a Stinger Missile Battalion, Operations Officer for a Marine Air Control Group, Director of Aviation Battlestaff Operations for a Marine Aircraft Wing, and Future Operations Officer for the Aviation Combat Element, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

As a Russian Foreign Area Officer, LtCol Kane has served as an investigator for the POW/MIA Field Office, Moscow, Russia; as Deputy Team Chief and Team Chief of arms control inspection teams with the On-Site Inspection Agency, European Operations in Frankfurt, Germany for the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, the Dayton Agreement in the Former Yugoslavia; and as Assessments Officer, Office of the Verification Coordinator for Article IV of the Dayton Agreement in Vienna, Austria. He also served as the Marine Corps Attaché Officer, U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russia.

LtCol Kane currently serves as a Professor of Security Studies and Deputy Director of the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies, George C. Marshall Center, Garmisch, Germany.

LtCol Kane’s academic experience includes a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy, Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Naval War College Non-resident Seminars in Strategy and Policy and in National Security Decision-Making, Defense Language Institute, the U.S. Army Russian Institute, and a Master of Arts degree in Diplomacy from Norwich University.

LtCol Kane’s decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Iraq Campaign Medal and the NATO Medal.

Last updated: May 2, 2008