Ralph Shield

Ralph Shield is a senior researcher with the Strategic and Operational Research Department (SORD) at the U.S. Naval War College. He previously served as a military officer, defense attaché, and foreign military advisor. His work has appeared in the Journal of Strategic Studies, Small Wars & Insurgencies, the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, and the Journal of Southern African Studies (forthcoming). His specific research interests include non-Western approaches to counterinsurgency, air power employment in intrastate war, competitive intervention in civil wars, and the drivers of divergent military behavior.