Founder and advisors

One of the foremost authorities on urban and underground warfare. More than 25 years of U.S. Army service as an infantry soldier, holding ranks from Private through Major. Served in the 75th Ranger Regiment, 173rd Airborne, and 4th Infantry Division, with two combat deployments to Iraq as an Infantry Platoon Leader and Company Commander. Chair of War Studies at the Madison Policy Forum, co-director of the Urban Warfare Project, and a founding member of the International Working Group on Subterranean Warfare. Author of Connected Soldiers (Potomac Books, 2022) and Understanding Urban Warfare (Howgate Publishing, 2022). Host of the Urban Warfare Project podcast. Holds a Master of Policy Management from Georgetown University.

Spent more than thirty years as a warfighter, serving at every rank of enlisted Soldier: first as a Ranger, then a Green Beret, and finally as an Operator in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta (1st SFOD-D), where he served as a Master Breacher and a Heavy Breacher. Former Senior Operational Advisor to the Asymmetric Warfare Group. Deployed multiple times worldwide, including to Grenada, Panama, Colombia, Somalia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. One of the principal authors of the Army's Training Publication 3-21.51 Subterranean Operations (2019). Currently Deputy Director at the National Center for Urban Operations at Fort Hamilton, New York, and Vice President at US Armor Group.

More than two decades as a U.S. Army officer at the intersection of special operations, irregular warfare, and emerging technology. Served primarily as an Infantry officer, with multiple combat deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq, and numerous other theaters worldwide. Spent more than a decade within the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, specializing in focused targeting, adaptive leader development, and subterranean operations. Following his military service, served as a science, engineering, and technical advisor to the Irregular Warfare Technical Support Directorate before leading Department of Defense operations for Robotic Research. Currently serves as an operational advisor to the National Center for Urban Operations and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Alfred University.

More than three decades of U.S. Army and government service, mostly as a Special Forces officer. Served in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Iraq, and Kosovo, from detachment to battalion-level command. Former principal strategic planner for the Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, advising senior U.S. and NATO leadership and co-authoring the Department of Defense's Russian New Generation Warfare Handbook. Closed his military career at the Pentagon in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. Co-founder of the Ukraine Defense Support Group in Kyiv, training Ukrainian forces on drone and electronic-warfare integration since 2022. Currently a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Urban Operations, where he leads counter-unmanned systems work, and a PhD candidate at King's College London focused on unmanned systems and AI on the modern battlefield.