Dean S. Hartley III

Dean Hartley was born in South Carolina at the end of World War II. His father was a career Marine pilot who flew combat missions in the Pacific Theater, in Korea, and in Vietnam. Dean went on active duty for four years in the Army, serving in the Pentagon, after earning his Ph.D. in mathematics. Following his Army tour, he worked for 10 years in Operations Research for Milliken & Co and 15 years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other Department of Energy facilities. In 2001, he started Hartley Consulting, working primarily in the defense field. His book, “Predicting Combat Effects,” won the Military Applications Society’s Koopman Prize for 1994. In 2013, he received the Steinhardt Prize for lifetime achievement in Operations Research. In 2022, the Military Operations Research Society awarded him the Clayton J. Thomas Award for continued lifetime technical contributions to the field. He continues as Principal of Hartley Consulting, working and writing books.

Dean has published extensively in scientific fields, including five books. He is the author of "Predicting Combat Effects," "Unconventional Conflict: A Modeling Perspective," "An Ontology for Unconventional Conflict," "An Ontology of Modern Conflict: Including Conventional Combat and Unconventional Conflict," and co-author of "Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power," the last four published by Springer. He has also published more than 40 science fiction novels.

Dean holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a brown belt in Judo, and blue belts in Thai Karate and Jiu Jitsu. Dean has lived in several parts of the US and has visited more on business and pleasure trips. Over the years, he has also traveled to numerous countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific both for business and pleasure. This travel has provided context for his novels - forty and counting. And, as with many authors, his varied experiences both work and play enrich his tales. His novels are available on another web site.

He lives in Oak Ridge, TN, and has two children, Theresa Nelson and Elise Henderson, and three grandchildren.