Mark V. Kauppi is associate adjunct professor with the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2016 after a thirty-year career which included assignments as professor at the National Intelligence University and chief of a Department of Defense/intelligence community counterterrorism training program for analysts and managers. Paul R. Viotti is professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. His expertise is in the areas of foreign policy, national security, and international relations theory. A retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force, Viotti has also been a member of the Denver Council on Foreign Relations, its president (1993-2003), Vice Chair (2003-17) and emeritus board member (2017-present). He is also on the Board of Advisors of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society.