Dr. Russell W. Glenn spent sixteen years in the think tank community as a senior defense analyst after a career in the US Army with service in Germany, Iraq, Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom. He later joined the faculty of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. Academic opportunities resulted in a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy and master’s degrees from the University of Southern California (MS, Systems Management), Stanford University (MS, Civil Engineering and MS, Operations Research), and School of Advanced Military Studies (Master of Military Art and Science). He earned his PhD in American history from the University of Kansas. Airborne, Ranger, and pathfinder qualifications are among military training qualifications. 

Dr. Glenn’s public appearances include CNN Reports, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and The History Channel in addition to being cited in The Economist, Jane’s Defence Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and other journals and newspapers. Interested readers can find the titles of his over fifty books, book-length reports, and a similar number of articles on urban issues, irregular warfare, police training, military history, and national policy listed at www.innovativedefenseresearch.com.

His nonfiction books include:

• Reading Athena’s Dance Card: Men Against Fire in Vietnam (Naval Institute Press, 2000)

• Rethinking Western Approaches to Counterinsurgency: Lessons from post-colonial conflict (Routledge, 2015)

• Trust and Leadership: The Australian Army Approach to Mission Command (University of North Georgia Press, 2020)

• Come Hell or High Fever: Readying the World’s Megacities for Disaster (Australian National University Press, 2023; available for free download at http://doi.org/10.22459/CHHF.2023)

His first venture into fiction, Gods’ War, is a highly acclaimed counterfactual American Civil War novel in which Robert E. Lee commands the Army of the Potomac.