Professor John F. Troxell

Professor of Strategic Military Logistics Operations and Planning, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College.

Adjunct Professor / Strategic Management

Biography

Professor John F. (Jef) Troxell is currently serving as Professor of Strategic Military Logistics Operations and Planning, with the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College and holds the George S. Patton Chair of Operational Research and Analysis. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy in 1974 and a Master’s degree from the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University in 1982.  He is also a 1997 graduate of the US Army War College.  He served as an economics instructor at the United States Military Academy from 1982 to 1985, and prior to assuming his current position he was the Director of National Security Studies, Department of National Security and Strategy, U.S. Army War College.

During a thirty year career with the U.S. Army he held higher-level assignments in the Department of Army, War Plans Division from 1990 to 1992, as a force planner for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1996, and served as Chief, Engineer Plans Division, Combined Forces Command, Seoul, South Korea from 1997 to 1999.  His operational assignments in the Army included service with the 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, at Ft. Riley, Kansas; the 293rd Engineer Battalion, at Baumholder, Germany; and the 43rd Engineer Battalion, at Fort Benning, Georgia.  He also commanded the 3rd Engineer Battalion, 24th Infantry Division, at Fort Stewart, Georgia. 

Professor Troxell has published several book chapters to include ”Presidential Decision Directive-56: A Glass half Full,” in The Interagency and Counterinsurgency Warfare,  “Sizing the Military in the Post-Cold War Era,” in United States Post-Cold War Defence Interests: A Review of the First Decade, and “Military Power and the Use of Force,” in the U.S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy, as well as articles in Parameters, Military Review, and with the Strategic Studies Institute.