Biography - Phillip J LaSala

Phil LaSala served as an intelligence officer and educator in the US Air Force until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2008 after 20 years of service. His assignments as an intelligence officer were at the wing, theater, and national levels and included support to U-2 operations worldwide, combined and joint staff work in Korea, all-source analysis of Russian nuclear weapons warfighting capabilities, and command briefer duties at the Pentagon for the Defense Intelligence Agency. He also served as a START treaty inspector detached to the then-On-Site Inspection Agency.

His teaching experience includes a broad array of undergraduate courses in Political Science and Military Strategic Studies on the US Air Force Academy faculty, and a variety of graduate level courses in air power, strategy, and national security on the faculty of the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies.

His undergraduate degree is in Political Science from the US Air Force Academy in 1988, his Masters degree is in National Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1996, and his doctorate is in Political Science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 2003. His dissertation is entitled Clash of Civilizations, An Empirical Examination.

He resides with his family on a lake in northern Minnesota, and enjoys running, reading, and curling.

 
 

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