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Jeff Cares Joins the RTJ Advisory Board

by Editor on October 1, 2008

Red Team Journal is pleased to announce that Jeff Cares has joined the RTJ advisory board. 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.

Dr. Robert J. Bunker Joins the RTJ Advisory Board

by Editor on September 9, 2008

Red Team Journal is pleased to welcome Dr. Robert J. Bunker to the RTJ advisory board. 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.

Matt Branigan Joins the RTJ Advisory Board

by Editor on August 28, 2008

Red Team Journal is pleased to welcome Matt Branigan, CPP, to the RTJ advisory board. 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.