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Biography - Lawrence E Cline

Lawrence E. Cline earned a MA in International Relations from Boston University and a MA in Military Studies from American Military University. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo, with his dissertation on Islamically-based insurgencies.

He is a retired US Army Military Intelligence officer, trained as a Middle Eastern Foreign Area Officer. Assignments include service as a UN Military Observer in Egypt and Lebanon; staff officer with 7th Special Forces Group; advisor in El Salvador; senior ground intelligence analyst with Central Command Headquarters in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during Desert Storm; and Intelligence Production Chief for UNITAF Headquarters in Somalia. His final assignment was as Middle East Intelligence Branch Chief, J-2, Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was recalled from retirement in 2007 and served in Iraq as the Strategic Analysis Branch Chief, Combined Intelligence Operations Center, and as an intelligence engagement officer with the Iraqi National Joint Intelligence Analysis Center before re-retiring.

In addition to teaching for the University System, he also teaches counterterrorism strategy development and strategic intelligence processes to foreign officers and security officials for the Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has taught for this center in the US and in over 30 foreign countries. He also has been a guest instructor for the Air Force Special Operations School, the Center of Excellence Defense Against Terrorism, Ankara, Turkey, the Peace Support Operations Training Center, Butmir, Bosnia, and the NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany. He has written over 50 monographs, articles, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters on terrorism, insurgencies, and intelligence. His articles have appeared in Comparative Strategy, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Journal of Conflict Studies, Small Wars Journal, and International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.