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Institute for Corean-American Studies
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Bruce E. Bechtol Jr.
Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College
in Quantico, Virginia. Prior to joining the faculty at Quantico, he was an Assistant Professor of National Security Studies
at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, from 2003-2005. He received his Ph.D. in
National Security Studies from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. He also holds a Master of Arts in International
Affairs from Catholic University in Washington DC, and a Master of Military Studies from the US Marine Corps Command
and Staff College (Distinguished Graduate). Prior to joining the faculty of the Air Command and Staff College,
Dr. Bechtol was employed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, serving as the Senior Analyst for Northeast Asia with the
Directorate for Intelligence, Joint Chiefs of Staff, in the Pentagon, from1997 to 2003. From 1977 to 1997, he was on
active duty in the Marine Corps, serving as a cryptologist at various duty stations in the continental United States,
the Western Pacific and in East Asia. Dr. Bechtol is the author of Avenging the General Sherman: The 1871 Battle of
Kang Hwa Do (Quantico Va: Marine Corps University Foundation, 2002), and a contributing author to several books,
including; The United States and the Korean Peninsula in the 21st Century, (London, UK: Ashgate Press, 2006),
Between Total Wars and Small Wars: Studies in the Societal History of the Cold War (in German),
(Hamburg, Germany: Hamburg Institute for Social Research, 2006), and Divided Korea: Longing for Reunification,
(Chicago Ill: North Park University Press, 2004). His writing has also appeared in, among other publications,
the International Journal of Korean Studies, the Korea Observer, Korean Quarterly, East Asian Review,
the International Journal of Korean Unification Studies, Pacific Focus, the Air and Space Power Journal,
and “Occasional Papers,” the journal of the Korean American Historical Society. He is the former editor of
the Defense Intelligence Journal (2004-2005) and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the East Asian Review.
In addition, he has presented papers and conducted briefings on a wide variety of intelligence and national security issues
at conferences and symposia.
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