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Dr. John J. LeBeau
Professor of Strategy and Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Dr. John J. Le Beau is Professor of Strategy and Security Studies in the College for International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany and a permanent faculty member of the Marshall Center’s Program on Terrorism and Security Studies.

Dr. Le Beau is also Chairman of the Partnership for Peace Consortium’s Combating Terrorism Working Group (CTWG), which enjoys a broad international membership. The CTWG is currently addressing the issue of intelligence cooperation against the terrorist target.

Dr. Le Beau is a former Senior Operations Officer who retired from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in 2005. Most of his intelligence operations career was spent on assignment outside of the United States, including in locations experiencing active terrorism. His intelligence duties included assignments as chief of an operational facility in Europe engaged in counter-terrorist and counter-proliferation operations and intelligence collection, Program Manager of a human and technical collection program involving the Middle East, Operational Chief for an intelligence collection program directed at transnational issues and a counter-insurgency officer in an active conflict area.

In addition to several classified intelligence assessments for the United States Intelligence Community, Dr. Le Beau has authored various articles and papers on the topics of international terrorism and insurgency. He is most recently the author of “The Renaissance of Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency” in the May 2008 edition of Connections and a book chapter, “U.S. Perspectives on the Middle East” in The United States, Russia and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the 21st Century” (Sharyl Cross, ed., 2008). He also recently authored a Partnership for Peace Consortium paper, “Islamist Recruitment Methods in Europe: Time to Act.” Dr. Le Beau is additionally a contributing editor of the Marshall Center Program on Terrorism and Security Daily Online. He has lectured extensively on terrorism, intelligence and security topics internationally. Recent venues for his presentations include Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Georgia, Turkey, the United States, Germany and several other countries.

Publications

Contemporary Security Challenges in the Middle East: An American Perspective. In S. Cross, et al (Eds.), The United States, Russia and China: Confronting Global Terrorism and Security Challenges in the 21st Century. Praeger PSI, 2008.
The Renaissance of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency. Connections, Spring, 2008.
Islamist Recruitment Methods in Europe: Time to Act. Marshall Center Insights, October 2007.
The Weapon Not Heard: Evolving Intelligence Cooperation in the Fight Against Terrorism. Bilten Slovenske Vojsre (Slovenia). September 2007.
“Professional Soldiers and Unprofessionsal Wars,” the Military Review, volume LXIX, April, 1989.
“The New Face of Guerrilla War.” The Marine Corps Gazette, volume 73, issue eight, August, 1989.
Various classified intelligence assessments and studies for the US intelligence community.

Last updated: June 27, 2008