Michael P. Noonan

Deputy Director, Program on National Security Studies

Michael Noonan is the managing director of FPRI’s Program on National Security. His current research focuses on civil-military relations, defense transformation, and the military’s role in the war on terrorism. A Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, in June 2007 he returned from a 14-month deployment to Texas, Kuwait, and Iraq, where he served on a Military Transition Team (MiTT) with an Iraqi light infantry battalion in and around the northern city of Tal Afar. Among other professional affiliations, he is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, a fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, and has consulted for the Institute for Defense Analyses. Mr. Noonan is a doctoral candidate in political science from Loyola University Chicago; his dissertation deals with civil-military relations and military effectiveness. His writings have appeared in Orbis, Parameters, National Security Studies Quarterly, FPRI Wire, and FPRI E-Notes.

Michael P. Noonan
Deputy Director
Program on National Security
Foreign Policy Research Institute
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