Lecturer, Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School

Dr. Ken Dombroski teaches graduate courses on American national security policy and strategy, peace operations, post-conflict security building, international relations theory, war in the modern world, and Middle East history in the Department of National Security Affairs. As a faculty member of the Center for Civil-Military Relations since 1999, he developed curricula and served as course director for short courses on planning peace operations and intelligence and democracy. In 2005, he deployed to Baghdad as a political advisor to the Deputy Chief of Staff, Strategy, Plans, and Assessments, Multinational Force – Iraq to analyze the Iraqi elections and serve on ministerial capacity development working groups.

Dr. Dombroski is a retired U.S. Army officer qualified as a strategist, military historian, strategic intelligence officer, and Middle East/North Africa foreign area officer. Trained as a communications and field artillery officer, he served for six years in a variety of troop assignments in Korea, the U.S. and Germany. After FAO education, he served as a United Nations military observer in Israel and Lebanon, Middle East desk officer on the Joint Staff, coalition intelligence officer during Operation Desert Storm, and military history instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Recalled to active military duty from 2007-2009, Dr. Dombroski worked as a strategist in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate of the Joint Staff (J5) and later as an assistant professor of military science at George Mason University.

Dr. Dombroski earned a B.A. in history from Loyola University, New Orleans, an M.A. in international studies from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. in world politics from the Catholic University of America. He graduated on the Commandant’s list from the U.S. Army Field Artillery Officer Basic and Advanced Courses and was an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer Course. Among his military awards and decorations are the Legion of Merit, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal. He was also a member of a United Nations peacekeeping organization awarded the 1988 Noble Peace Prize.