Dr. Thomas R. Mockaitis
THOMAS R. MOCKAITIS is Professor of History at DePaul University. As an adjunct faculty member of the Center for Civil Military Relations, he has co-taught several terrorism/counterterrorism courses and worked with a team of specialists to help the Romanian Army rewrite its civil-military cooperation doctrine. He has lectured at the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the Canadian Forces Staff College, and presented papers at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center (Canada), the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (UK), and at conferences co-sponsored with the Military Science Department of the Austrian Ministry of Defense. A frequent media commentator on terrorism and security matters, Dr. Mockaitis has appeared on Public Television, National Public Radio, and various Chicago radio and TV stations. He appears regularly as a terrorism expert for WGN TV News (Channel 9). He co-edited Grand Strategy and the War on Terrorism (London: Frank Cass, 2003) with Paul Rich. He is the author of British Counterinsurgency: 1919-1960 (London: Macmillan, 1990), British Counterinsurgency in the Post-Imperial Era (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1995), and Peacekeeping and Intrastate Conflict: the Sword or the Olive Branch? (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999). The Future of Peace Operations: Old Challenges for a New Century (London: Frank Cass, 2004), co-edited with Erwin Schmidl, is forthcoming. Dr. Mockaitis earned a BA in European History from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, and his MA and Ph.D. in Modern British and Irish History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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SSI Publications by Dr. Thomas R. Mockaitis
- Added February 23, 2007
- Type: Monograph
- The Iraq War: Learning from the Past, Adapting to the Present, and Planning for the Future.
- Authored by Dr. Thomas R. Mockaitis.
- The Iraq War has been the subject of heated political debate and intense academic scrutiny. Much argument has focused on the decision to invade and the size of the force tasked with the campaign.
- Added October 01, 2004
- Type: Monograph
- Civil-Military Cooperation in Peace Operations: The Case of Kosovo.
- Authored by Dr. Thomas R. Mockaitis.
- The humanitarian intervention in Kosovo illustrates the challenges and possibilities of civil-military cooperation (CIMIC) in peace operations. Properly analyzed, this case study yields invaluable lessons that may inform the conduct of future missions. The current missions in Iraq and Afghanistan make this study timely and relevant.