Prof. Stephen P. Rosen

In addition to his roles at Harvard, where he has also served as Harvard College Professor, head of Winthrop House, and Director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Professor Rosen has also served as the civilian assistant to the director, Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Political-Military Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, and a professor in the Strategic Department at the Naval War College. He participated in the President's Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy, and in the Gulf War Air Power Survey sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force. He currently serves as Senior Counsellor at the Long Term Strategy Group. He has published articles on ballistic missile defense, the American theory of limited war, and the strategic implications of the AIDS epidemic. His books include Winning the Next War: Innovation and the Modern Military, Societies and Military Power: India and its Armies, and War and Human Nature.