James "Pigeon" Fielder

I'm a political science instructor at Colorado State University, and retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. I'm also serving as a Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2023, am Chief Operating Officer for Mobius Worlds Publishing (yes, Pigeon is the COO), and consults on organizational wargaming, crisis response exercises, and scenario planning. I research interpersonal trust and emergent political processes through cyber-based interaction, and through tabletop and live-action gaming as natural experiments. I'm on the editorial board of the journal Simulation & Gaming and have over two decades of experience designing, executing, and assessing training exercises and wargames, from small-group tabletop discussions to multi-day exercises engaging over 5,000 participants.

I was "awarded" the military nickname Pigeon in 1997 for keeping pet pigeons, including one bird I've had since 1996!