Captain, US Navy (retired)

Captain Shemella retired from the Navy in 1996 after a career in Special Operations. During his military service, he planned and executed counter terrorism and counter narcotics operations in Latin America, Europe, and other regions. He earned a Masters Degree in National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School and attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a Senior Fellow in National Security. Captain Shemella has been with The Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) since 1998. He is currently the CCMR Program Manager for the ‘Combating Terrorism Fellowship’ program (CTFP), focusing on civil-military responses to terrorism of all kinds. In that capacity, he develops and teaches seminars and workshops worldwide. Captain Shemella is assisted in these efforts by a network of civilian and retired-military faculty members drawn from the Naval Postgraduate School, civilian universities, government organizations, and the private sector. This teaching network has just completed a book entitled Fighting Back: What Governments Can Do About Terrorism, to be published in the summer of 2011 by Stanford University Press.