COL Jeremy Gwinn, Ph.D., USA

Military Instructor

Colonel Jeremy Gwinn is an Army infantry officer and faculty member at the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense University, Washington, D.C.

Prior to his tenure at the Eisenhower School, Colonel Gwinn served as Chief of Staff for Strategic Operations at Headquarters, Department of the Army G-3/5/7. In this role, he was principal military advisor to the Director of Strategic Operations on a portfolio including cyber, space, electromagnetic warfare, and data. During his career, he served in a variety of command and staff positions in tactical units, leading Light, Air Assault, and Mechanized formations from the platoon through battalion level as well as advising foreign security forces. He has served numerous combat deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq and served two tours on the Army Staff in the Pentagon.

Colonel Gwinn is also an Advanced Strategic Planning and Policy Fellow, completing his Ph.D. in international relations at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 2021. His dissertation research focused on national security policy and U.S. unconventional warfare operations after 9/11. As a doctoral candidate, Jeremy lectured on topics related to military force, the contemporary security environment, and the functioning of the Department of Defense at The Fletcher School, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard University, completing two Teaching Fellowships at Harvard. He is currently an Adjunct Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. From 2008 to 2010, he served as an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point. Jeremy's work has been published in Parameters, Military Review, Small Wars Journal, and War on the Rocks, among others.

He holds a B.A. in History from Pennsylvania State University, an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.