About the Author:
LTC William D. Wunderle is currently serving in the Joint Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J5) on the Joint Staff as a Political Military Planner with responsibility for Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority. Prior assignments include Senior Army Fellow at the RAND Corporation; principal US advisor to the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense and Aviation Joint Staff; Chief of Plans, Operations Officer, and infantry company commander with the 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and Chief of Strategic Plans for US Army South and J3, Joint Security Brigade, Operation Safe Haven. Wunderle served as a consultant for the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies Enhanced Learning Environments with the Creative Technologies (ELECT) project—a PC-based, bilateral contact-training module that allows US Army leaders to plan and conduct a series of bilateral meetings. Wunderle is a nonresident associate at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and an adjunct instructor for the University of Maryland University College. Wunderle is a graduate of the Joint and Combined Warfighting Course at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, VA, and the Arabic Basic Course at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Presidio of Monterey, California. He holds an MBA from Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas; an MMAS from the School of Advanced Military Studies, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and a BA from Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Wunderle has published a number of books, monographs, and articles to include Forced In, Left Out: The Airborne Division in Future Forcible Entry Operations (Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command and General Staff College, School of Advanced Military Studies, 1997) and “Through the Lens of Cultural Awareness: Planning Requirements in Wielding the Instruments of National Power” (RAND Technology and Applied Sciences Group Seminar, Warfighters: Operational Realities, 17 November 2004). His monograph Yin and Yang: The Relationship of Joint Vision 2010’s Concepts of Dominant Maneuver and Precision Engagement (Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command and General Staff College, School of Advanced Military Studies, 1998), was selected for further publication and distribution by the Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare as part of their Contemporary Professional Military Writing Series.
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