Dr. Lamont Colucci

Grand Strategy, Great Powers, and the Quest for Spacepower

Dr. Lamont Colucci is the inaugural Director of Doctrine Development for the United States Space Force. He has experience as a diplomat with the U.S. Dept. of State and is also a Full Professor of Political Science at Concordia University. His primary area of expertise is United States national security and United States foreign policy. He teaches national security, foreign policy, intelligence, terrorism, and international relations courses. He has published four books as the sole author: Crusading Realism: The Bush Doctrine and American Core Values After 9/11, A two-volume series entitled – The National Security Doctrines of the American Presidency: How they Shape our Present and Future, The International Relations of the Bible and U.S. Space Force, Grand Strategy, and United States National Security. He was a contributing author of three books entitled The Day That Changed Everything: Looking at the Impact of 9/11 at the End of the Decade, Homeland Security & Intelligence, and The Next Space Race-A Blueprint for American Foreign Policy. In 2012, he became the Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, Austria. He has undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a doctorate in politics from the University of London, England. In 2007 he received Ripon College’s Severy Excellence in Teaching Award and in 2010, the Underkofler Outstanding Teaching Award. In 2015 he received the National Significant Sig award of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Dr. Colucci substantially contributes to the United States Air Force/Space Command/ Space Force publications and conferences concerning space strategy. Dr. Colucci is also an occasional columnist for the Washington Times, National Review, Washington Examiner/Weekly Standard, The Hill, U.S. News and World Report, and Defense News. He is a bi-monthly columnist for Newsmax. Dr. Colucci is also a Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council and Senior Advisor in National Security for Contingent Security. He is a National Security and Foreign Affairs advisor to the NATO-oriented Conference of Defence Associations Institute. Dr. Colucci is the co-founder and CEO of Space Fund Intelligence. In 2018 he was appointed to the National Task Force on National and Homeland Security.

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