Alan G. Stolberg

Alan G. Stolberg is an adjunct policy analyst. He focuses on defense education, security, cooperation, and associated lessons learned from the Russia-Ukraine War. Previously, he was coordinator of the Defense Education Enhancement Program at RAND, where he planned and orchestrated the execution of DoD support for foreign professional military education (PME) institutions on a global basis. The focus was on war colleges, staff colleges, military academies, junior officer courses, and non-commissioned officer academies. He was also a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy.

He also served on the resident faculty of the U.S. Army War College as Associate Professor of National Security Studies and, for three years, as the Henry L. Stimson Chair of Military Studies. He served on active duty in the Army for thirty years, retiring as a Colonel. His last three years of active service were spent as the War College's Director of European Studies. Focus areas were policy and strategy formulation, European and Eurasian studies, the interagency, and security cooperation. He co-authored the RAND Perspective: "Building Partner-Nation Capacity Through the Defense Education Enhancement Program," and the RAND Report: "The Challenges and Opportunities of Institutional Capacity Building Through Professional Military Education: Lessons from the Defense Education Enhancement Program." In addition to peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews, his book-length monograph, "How Nation-States Craft Their National Security Strategy Documents," was published by the Strategic Studies Institute. 

He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Temple University.