Biography - Steven J Greer

Steven J Greer

Dr. Steven Greer is a professor of terrorism and security studies and serves on the Center for Security Policy Military Committee in Washington, DC.

He is a former special assistant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense serving as the only retired Non-commissioned Officer on Secretary Rumsfeld's Military Analyst Group. He served as a Senior Fellow at the National Defense Council Foundation conducting research on terrorism and insurgency. He also served on Raytheon's Joint Senior Enlisted Advisory Board and led a multi-million dollar HUMINT contract for Lockheed Martin.

Between 2003-2008 he gave more than 300 television and radio interviews on programs including Fox and friends, Studio B w/Shepard Smith, Hannity and Colmes, O’Reilly Factor, CNN Now w/Paula Zahn, MSNBC, Sky News in Europe, Al Jazeera, G. Gordon Liddy Show, and Radio Factor w/Bill O’Reilly.

Dr. Greer has lectured on the war on terrorism at major universities, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and on Capital Hill. He has been quoted internationally in publications such as the Russian Newsweek and Japans Daily Yomiuri.

He graduated from Liberty University in 1991 and received a Master of Arts in Land Warfare from American Military University in 1998. He earned a PhD in 2008 from Capella University where his research focused on experiential learning theory and its capacity to teach irregular warfare through a virtual environment.

During his 20 year military career he was a four-time competitor in the grueling Lieutenant General David E. Grange, Jr., Best Ranger Competition; the most physically and mentally challenging 3-day competition in the world. He served as a Ranger Squad Leader, Special Forces Weapons Sergeant, Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant, Special Forces A-Detachment Sergeant, Instructor at the Special Warfare Center, Infantry Company First Sergeant, Commandant of the Light-fighters School, and Command Sergeant Major for two light infantry battalions and one infantry brigade. At 33 years of age he was selected as one of the youngest Sergeants Major in Army history.

In 2007, he received the first Jim Etter Award for Outstanding Creativity and Innovation. Jim Etter was the founder and chief visionary of American Military University. In 2009 he was the Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award recipient for the School of Public Safety and Health.

He founded the Greer Foundation in 2003 to promote Army values and raise public awareness of the sacrifices of serving a nation at war.

 
 

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