Dr. Christopher C. Harmon
Virginia and Washington, D.C.
drchristophercharmon@gmail.com
Expertise
Terrorism & Counterterrorism Theory & Nature of War
Insurgency & Counter-Insurgency Statecraft & Strategy
Experience
Full Professor, Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C. July 2022 – present
Fellow, Brute Krulak Center for Innovation &
Future Warfare, Marine Corps University, Quantico, Virginia 2018-present
Donald Bren Chair of Great Power Competition
Marine Corps University 2018-2021
Professor & course director (3 years) for “Comprehensive Security
Responses to Terrorism,”
Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies 2014-2018
Maj.Gen. Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory
Marine Corps University 2010-2014
Executive Director (16 months) &
Director of Curricula/Studies (31 months)
Program on Terrorism & Security Studies, George C. Marshall
European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany 2007-2010
Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency & Terrorism
Marine Corps University 2005-2007
Professor of International Relations, Command and Staff College
Marine Corps University 1993-2005
Associate Professor of Strategy
Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island 1988-1992
Legislative Aide for Foreign Policy
Congressman James A. Courter, House Armed Services Cmte. 1985-1988
Editorial Board: Terrorism and Political Violence,
the multi-national quarterly based at St. Andrews University
Editorial Board: Combating Terrorism Exchange,
a U.S. govt. journal for international readership of professionals 2016-2023
Board of Academic Advisors: International Churchill Society
Faculty Advisor on master’s-level course papers and theses at Missouri State University (Fairfax, VA) & Institute of World Politics, D.C.
Academic and Research Fellowships: Earhart Foundation;
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; Claremont Institute
Courses Developed or Directed
Maoism Exported: Revolutionary Wars Outside China
[Institute of World Politics]
Churchill as War Leader: WWII
[elective; Expeditionary Warfare School, MCU]
State Powers and Low Intensity Warfare in Peacetime
[elective; Command & Staff College, MCU]
Theory & Nature of War; Strategy & Policy
[core courses; Command & Staff College, MCU]
Counterterrorism Strategies
[elective; Command & Staff College, MCU]
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
[Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.]
[Dept. of Defense & Strategic Studies, Missouri State Univ., Fairfax, VA]
Program on Terrorism & Security Studies
[5 week course; Marshall Center, Garmisch, Germany]
Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism
[4 week course, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies]
Selection of Courses Taught
Counterterrorism & the Democracies Institute of World Politics
Military Strategy: Theory & Practice Institute of World Politics
The Global War on Terrorism National Defense University
Warfare in Peacetime Command & Staff College, MCU
Terrorism: Advanced Research Topics DSS, Missouri State University
Education
Ph.D., International Relations and Government, and MA in Government
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, 1984
B.A., History, and French Language [double-major; summa cum laude]
Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, 1977
Books
Warfare in Peacetime [studies of proxy wars] 2023
Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press
A Citizen’s Guide to Terrorism & Counterterrorism 2021
New York: Routledge; 2nd edn.
The Terrorist Argument: Modern Advocacy and Propaganda 2018
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press
[lead author, with Randall Bowdish]
A Citizen’s Guide to Terrorism & Counterterrorism 2014
New York: Routledge [1st edn. featured on C-Span]
Toward A Grand Strategy Against Terrorism 2010
New York: McGraw-Hill Higher Ed. Dvsn. [lead ed. & co-author]
Terrorism Today,2nd edition 2008
London & New York: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
Terrorism Today, 1st edition 2000
London: Frank Cass Publishers [reprinted 2002, 2004]
Statecraft and Power: Essays in Honor of Harold W. Rood 1994
Lanham, MD: University Press of America [lead ed. & coauthor]
Articles and Book Chapters
“Adele Ann Balasingham’s LTTE Tigresses,” chapter in forthcoming
Women, Peace & Security, ed. Dr. Saira Yamin
Newport: RI, Naval War College Press
“The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: An Evolution in the Aug. 2022
Global Landscape,” vol. 2, # 3, Journal of Policy & Strategy
“The Books That Churchill Read,” May 21, 2022
The American Spectator
“A Disturbing Parallel” [essay on the Ukraine-Russia conflict] Jan. 2022
Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare
“The Timing of Terrorism: The Obsession with Dates,” Sept. 2021
Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International
“The Philippines Face the New People’s Army: Fifty Years Dec. 2020
In the Field,” Routledge Handbook of Democracy & Security,
Leonard Weinberg et. al., eds.
“Alan Brooke: The Thoroughbred Professional” for The Dec. 2020
Churchill Project, Hillsdale College, MI
“Innovation and Historical Continuity in Great Power Competition” Fall 2020
Marine Corps University Journal, vol. 10, no. 2
“Iran as Competitor: Measured, Violent, Relentless” May 2019
Krulak Center, Marine Corps University
“Unexpected Skills: The Range of Terrorists’ Strategic Winter 2018
Communications,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs,
vol. 42, no. 1
“Terrorism Trends & Current History” April 2017
PoliticsandStrategy.com, ed. Patrick J. Garrity
“That Word Terrorist, and What Terrorists Say About It” May 2016
Combating Terrorism Exchange, vol. 6, no. 2
“Women in Terrorist Undergrounds,” with Dr. Paula Nov. 2014
Holmes-Eber, Combating Terrorism Exchange, vol. 4, no. 4
“Terrorism,” for Oxford Bibliographies on “Military History” April 2014
published on line
“Spain’s ETA Terrorist Group is Dying,” Orbis Fall 2012
”Al Qaida’s War with the United Nations and the State System,” 2012
chapter in Al Qaida after Ten Years of War, eds. N. Cigar &
S. Kramer. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press
“U.S. Counterterrorism Policy & Strategy: The Early Obama 2012
Administration,” chapter in Terrorism and Counterterrorism:
Understanding the New Security Environment, 4th edn.
(NY: McGraw Hill, 2012), lead ed. Russell D. Howard
“Dealing with Extremism: The Centenary of a Churchillian Jan 2011
Example” [Anarchist Siege at Sidney Street, London],
Website: Lexington Institute, Arlington, VA
“Narco-Financing: Terror’s Links to Drug Trafficking” Fall 2010
Per Concordiam: Jrnl. of European Security & Defense Issues
Repr. July 2012 by Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium
“How Terrorist Groups End: Studies of the 20th Century” Fall 2010
Strategic Studies Quarterly [chapter from McGraw-Hill book]
“Illustrations of Discrete Uses of Force in Counterterrorism” Summer 2010
Orbis [chapter from Toward A Grand Strategy Against Terrorism]
“Public Diplomacy’s Next Challenge” May 2008
Connections [Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense
Academies & Security Studies Institutes]
“Rules of Engagement in Counterterrorism: 2008
Political, Legal and Moral Aspects”
Przeciwdzialanie terroryzmowi [Warsaw]
“The Assault on Aid Workers: A New Pattern” Jan. 2008
Security Insights [Marshall Center, Germany]
“The Myth of the Invincible Terrorist” Ap./May 2007
Policy Review
“Counterterrorism and the U.S. Military since 9-11,” 2006
chapter in The American Military Tradition
2nd edition, John M. Carroll & Colin F. Baxter, eds
“What History Suggests about Terrorism and its Future,” Spring 2006
chapter in The Past As Prologue: The Importance of History
to the Military Profession, Cambridge University Press
“Double Bombings,” Journal of Counterterrorism & Nov. 2005
Homeland Security International
“Fanaticism and Guerrilla Warfare in the Late 20th Century,” 2005
chapter in Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age, London
& New York: Frank Cass Pub. M. Hughes & G. Johnson, eds
“Partnerships in Counterterrorism” Sept. 15, 2005
Vital Speeches
“Churchill’s Guiding Hand” [essay on war termination] March 2005
World War II magazine
“How al-Qaeda May End” May 19, 2004
Backgrounder # 1760, The Heritage Foundation
A public lecture & publication [website and paper]
“Work in Common: Democracies and Opposition to Terrorism” 2002
BIISS Journal [Bangladesh Inst. of Internat. & Strategic Studies]
“Advancing U.S. National Interests thru Effective Counterterrorism” Dec. 15, 2001
Vital Speeches
“Alanbrooke & Churchill” 2001
Finest Hour: Journal of International Churchill Societies
“Five Strategies of Terrorism” Fall 2001
Small Wars & Insurgencies; reprinted in
Dimensions of Terrorism, ed. Alan O’Day, Ashgate, 2004
“21st Century Terror,” Boston Herald June 3, 2001
“Terror Group Operations” in two parts 2000-2001
Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International
“Sudan’s Neighbors Accuse It of Training Terrorists” Dec. 19, 1995
Christian Science Monitor
“The Purposes of Terrorism within Insurgency: Autumn 1992
Shining Path in Peru,” Small Wars & Insurgencies
“Illustrations of ‘Learning’ in Counterinsurgency” 1992
Comparative Strategy; reprinted in Modern Counter-Insurgency
ed. Ian Beckett, Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishers, 2007
“Terrorism: A Matter for Moral Judgment” Spring 1992
Terrorism and Political Violence
“Propaganda at Pistol Point: The Use and Abuse of Education Jan/Mar.1992
by Leftist Terrorists”
Political Communication: An International Journal
“Are We Beasts? Churchill and the Moral Question of Dec. 1991
World War II ‘Area Bombing’”
Newport Papers, # 1, Center for Naval Warfare Studies
“Left Meets Right in Terrorism: A Focus on Italy” Winter 1985
Strategic Review
News and Opinion articles (8) on foreign affairs 1981-1987
Public Research, Syndicated [Claremont, CA]
Articles on terrorism in Europe (2) 1982, 1983
Grand Strategy: Countercurrents
“Liberal Education Should Do More than Just Liberate,” Oct. 14, 1981
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Selected Lectures on “How Terrorist Groups End”
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, England, July 2003;
published (in part) by Cambridge Univ. Press, Spring 2006
Heritage Foundation: lecture and published Backgrounder, May 2004
Office of Net Assessment, Pentagon, June 2004
Institute of World Politics, 2004 – 2013
National Defense University, SNSEE, Fort McNair, 2004 – 2006
George Mason University (OLLI; Fairfax VA), Feb. 2005
U.S. Senate, presentation to staff, Sept. 2005
Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars:
lecture, webcast, & published summary, March 2006
U.S. House of Representatives, presentation to Congressmen & staff, May 2006
Defense Intelligence College, Bolling Air Force Base, series, 2006 – 2012
University of Maryland, College Park, “SWOTT” faculty training, Feb. 2007
National Counterterrorism Center, August 2007
INTERPOL headquarters, Lyon, France, June 2010
Other Speeches and Lectures in the U.S.
U.S. Dept. of State, as recipient of “Distinguished Public Service Award”
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Govt. Reform, testimony
Saltzman Institute and Columbia University, New York
National Intelligence University, Bethesda, Maryland
Seattle University: Annual Al Mann History Lecture
Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy
Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Villanova University: H. W. Rood Memorial Lecture
New York Military Affairs Symposium
Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
Association of Former Intelligence Officers
American Political Science Association
U.S. Library of Congress
Pacific and Asian Affairs Council, Honolulu
Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida
Global Engagement Center, Department of State
Selected Lectures Abroad
Al-Anbar: U. S. Marine Corps bases
Athens: Hellenic Police Academy
Baku: Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy
Berlin: Central Asian Parliamentarians’ Seminar
Bishkek: NATO Center of Excellence/Defense Against Terrorism
Dhaka: Institute of International & Strategic Studies
Garmisch: George C. Marshall European Center for Sec. Studies
New Delhi: Centre for Land Warfare Studies
Oberammergau: The NATO School
Okinawa: U.S. Marine Corps bases
Rome: Institute for Higher Defense Studies
Salford: Manchester University
Stockholm: National Defense College
Tirana: Albanian Defense Academy
Warsaw: National Security Bureau