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Dr Jeff McCausland has been the Director of the Leadership
in Conflict Initiative at Dickinson College since January,
2004. In this capacity he has conducted leadership development
seminars for over two hundred educators from major urban school
districts across the United States, hosted senior Indian and
Pakistani officials for discussions and lectures on the ongoing
disagreement between their two countries and organized a major
conference focused on the future of the Special Relationship
between the United States and the United Kingdom.
Dr. McCausland served for over thirty years in the United
States Army. He graduated from the United States military
Academy at West Point in 1972 and was commissioned in the
field artillery. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne
and Ranger Schools as well as the Command and General Staff
College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters
and PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts
University.
During his military career Dr. McCausland served in a variety
of command and staff positions both in the United States and
Europe. This included Director of Defense Policy and Arms
Control on the National Security Council Staff during the
Kosovo crisis. He also worked on the Treaty on Conventional
Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) as a member of the Office of
the Deputy Chief of staff for Operations, US Army Staff, the
Pentagon. Following this assignment he assumed command of
a field artillery battalion stationed in Europe and deployed
his unit to Saudi Arabia for Operations Desert Shield and
Storm in 1990 and 1991. He completed his active duty service
in 2002 culminating his career as Dean of Academics, U.S.
Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Upon his
retirement in 2002 hew as awarded the Class of 1961 chair
of Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy.
He has both published and lectured broadly on leadership,
military affairs, European security, the Gulf War and arms
control throughout the United States and over twelve countries.
He has been a visiting fellow at the Center for International
Affairs, Harvard University; conflict Studies Research Center,
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; Stiftung Wissenshaft und
Politk, Ebenhausen, Germany; George C. Marshall Center for
European Security Studies, Garmisch, Germany; and the Institute
for Strategic Studies, London.
He also served as a member of numerous panels on leadership
and character development. These include the Chief of Staff
Army’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Training and Leader Development
(2001); the Character Review Panel for the Superintendent,
U.S. Air Force Academy (2002); as well as providing advice
and assistance to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force’s
Aerospace Leader Development Panel.
Dr. McCausland is an adjunct fellow at both the Center for
Strategic Studies (CSIS) as well as the RAND Corporation in
Washington. He also serves as a nationally security consultant
to CBS television and radio. He has been a frequent commemorator
on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for CBS since early 2003.
He is married to the former Marianne Schiessl and has three
children – Tanya, Nicholas and Phillip.
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