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Dr. David H. McIntyre
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Dr. Dave McIntyre is the Director of the Integrative Center for Homeland Security at Texas A&M University. He also teaches homeland security and terrorism at the Bush School for Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where he directs the graduate Certificate for Homeland Security program. He hosts the weekly radio commentary / blog Just a Minute for Homeland Security (est. July 2005) and co-hosts the hour long program Homeland Security: Inside and Out (est. March 2006), broadcast weekly on KAMU in College Station Texas, WFED in Washington, DC, and streamed worldwide on the internet. (See http://homelandsecurity.tamu.edu for details and access to more than 200 audio blog entries and 800 interviews) He is presently directing the establishment of a Masters of Science degree in Policy, Science, and Technology for Homeland Security at Texas A&M.
Dr. McIntyre was appointed a member of the National Security Education Board by president Bush in June 2008, and subsequently confirmed by the US Senate. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Homeland Security / Defense Educational Consortium, which includes more than 150 universities, and USNORTHCOM. He also serves as Academic Advisor to the University and Colleges Committee of the International Association of Emergency Managers, and on the Board of Directors of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, a public-private partnership with the FBI.
A nationally recognized analyst and teacher specializing in national and homeland security, Dr. McIntyre is a 30 year Army veteran, who has been designing and teaching national and homeland security strategy at senior levels of government for more than 20 years. Between 2001 and 2003, Dr. McIntyre served as Deputy Director of the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, the nation’s only not-for-profit think tank focused solely on homeland security. In 2001 Dr. McIntyre retired from the U.S. military as the Dean of Faculty at the National War College. He also served in the Office of the Army Chief of Staff, and as the speechwriter for the Commander of all US forces in the Asia-Pacific region. He taught English as a faculty member at West Point. He was airborne, ranger, and jumpmaster qualified, and served in airborne and reconnaissance units. During his career, he led or participated in delegations to more than two dozen countries.
Dr. McIntyre’s media work includes scores of national appearances on CNBC, FOX, ABC, MSNBC, CNN’s Crossfire, CSPAN, The History Channel, Voice of America, and the US State Department’s "Dialogue" series. Internationally, he has been on Australian, British, Canadian, Egyptian, French and German television. He also participated in many national and international radio programs, appearing with Bill Press, Oliver North, Janet Parshall, and Armstrong Williams in the US, Roy Green in Canada, and the BBC worldwide. In Washington, DC, he contributed to WMAL, WTOP, and NPR radio, and appeared more than 80 times on WUSA-TV. During the Iraq War, he was the military commentator for the Voice of America’s News Line television program, broadcast to American embassies world wide.
Dr. McIntyre holds a BS in Engineering from West Point, an MA in English and American Literature from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of the US Army War College and the National War College.