About
Background
Red Team Journal was launched in 1997. It was designed in part to encourage decision makers to consider alternative perspectives to national security issues. Later, the focus shifted to red teaming methods. Today, Red Team Journal embraces all forms of red teaming and alternative analysis and has expanded to include business strategy and non-military national security concerns.
Mission
The mission of Red Team Journal is to
- provide insights into national security issues of concern (broadly defined) by employing techniques of red teaming and alternative analysis,
- improve the practice of red teaming and alternative analysis, and
- facilitate a red teaming community of interest relevant to both analysts and decisionmakers.
In practice, this should allow us to
- understand ourselves and our adversaries better,
- anticipate situations of concern before they arise,
- and adapt our strategies to better position us for long-term success.
Identifying unusual or unexpected methods of attack (an approach with no stopping rule and arguably limited utility) is not one of the site’s missions.
Founder and Managing Editor
Dr. Mark Mateski. Mark is the president of Alternative Analysis, LLC. He also teaches systems analysis and systems engineering part-time for George Washington University while running Red Team Journal. As both an analyst and a manager at a number of defense and security organizations, Mark has directed wargames, conferences, studies, and assessments covering a range of topics. He has earned degrees in political science, national security studies, and systems engineering. You can reach him directly at editor at redteamjournal dot com.
Associate Editor
Mr. Adam Elkus. Adam is an analyst specializing in foreign policy and security. His articles have been published in Small Wars Journal, Athena Intelligence Journal, GroupIntel, and other publications. He has contributed chapters to The John Boyd Roundtable: Debating Science, Strategy, and War (Ann Arbor: Nimble LLC, 2008) and the compilation Threats in the Age of Obama, now on sale from Nimble LLC. Elkus blogs at Rethinking Security, Dreaming 5GW, and The Huffington Post. He is currently a contributor to the Center for Threat Awareness’ ThreatsWatch project.
Advisory Board
Dr. Randy Borum. Dr. Borum is a behavioral science consultant on counterintelligence and national security issues. He regularly teaches and consults with law enforcement agencies, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Defense. As a Professor at the University of South Florida, he has taught courses on terrorism, custodial interrogation, intelligence analysis, and criminal psychology, and is author or co-author of more than 100 publications. In addition to having served as a sworn police officer for municipal departments in Maryland and Florida, he has been an instructor since 1999 with the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training (SLATT) Program. Dr. Borum is a board-certified forensic psychologist who worked as a senior consultant to the U.S. Secret Service for more than a decade helping to develop, refine, and study behavior-based protocols for threat assessment and protective intelligence. He also serves on the Forensic Psychology Advisory Board for the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and served on the Defense Science Board Task Force on Understanding Human Dynamics in Military Operations.
Mr. Matt Branigan, CPP. Matt is the president of Watermark Risk Management International, LLC, a leading security and risk management consulting company. Watermark has extensive experience serving its governmental and commercial clients in all facets of physical security, anti-terrorism, emergency management, business continuity, and homeland security. As a career security forces officer in the U.S. Air Force, Matt served, among other things, as the senior U.S. government security official responsible for security oversight of the U.S. nuclear weapons program. Prior to launching Watermark, he was the chief security officer for Brink’s, Incorporated, one of the world’s foremost risk management companies. Matt can be reached directly at matt dot branigan at wrmi-llc dot com.
Dr. Robert J. Bunker. Dr. Bunker is CEO of the Counter-OPFOR Corporation, a security consulting company focusing on strategies to mitigate and respond to threats posed by non-state opposing forces (OPFORs). Dr. Bunker served as 2006-2007 Futurist in Residence (FIR), FBI Academy, Quantico, VA, and was a founding member of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group. He is a former consultant to the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) West; past Fellow, Institute of Land Warfare (ILW), Association of the US Army; and former Adjunct Professor, National Security Studies Program, California State University San Bernardino. His publications include the edited works Non-State Threats and Future Wars; Networks, Terrorism and Global Insurgency; and Criminal-States and Criminal-Soldiers. He can be reached at pradatorius at counter-OPFOR dot com.
Mr. Jeff Cares. Jeff is a thought leader in information-age military innovation and the primary author of several transformational concepts, including distributed networked operations, sense-and-respond logistics, and the information-age combat model. Harvard Business Review selected Jeff’s research to the Top 20 list of “Breakthrough Ideas for 2006,” and he has been featured in such information age bellwethers as Wired and Fast Company. Additionally, he is the author of Distributed Networked Operations: The Fundamentals of Network Centric Warfare and has published pioneering work in the application of complex systems research to military problems. His new book, Operations Research for Networked Military Systems, will be available soon. Jeff is a combat veteran of the first Gulf War. His military career has included multiple command tours and more than a decade of service on four-star staffs.
Mr. Matthew Devost. Matthew is a technologist, entrepreneur, and international security expert specializing in counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, risk management, and cyber-security issues (cyberterrorism, information warfare, and network security). He is best known for having founded the Terrorism Research Center in 1996 where he served as President and CEO until November 2008. Mr. Devost has appeared on a variety of radio and television programs as an expert on terrorism and information warfare. In addition, he has lectured or published for the National Defense University; the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement Communities; the Swedish, Australian and New Zealand governments; Georgetown University; American University; and George Washington University. His work appears in a number of books, magazines, academic journals, and conference proceedings. You can read his blog and full bio at devost.net.
