About
AT A GLANCE:
Director of Basic Strategic Art Program, U.S. Army War College
RESEARCH AREAS:
• Emerging Technologies
• Strategic Security
BIOGRAPHY:
Colonel Eric Hartunian is originally from Mission Viejo, California, and was a Field
Artillery officer before becoming an Army Strategist in 2007. He has served in many
positions from platoon to the theater army-level, with deployments to both Iraq and
Afghanistan. Colonel Hartunian was the Chief Strategist at the National Counterterrorism
Center’s Directorate of Strategic and Operational Planning, where he focused on counterterrorism
policy to include the global foreign fighter crisis, and other counter-ISIS challenges.
He is currently the Director of the Basic Strategic Art Program, where he leads a
faculty team to educate and develop the Army’s newest Strategists. He holds a Doctorate
in Public Administration from the University of Kansas, a master’s degree in Defense
Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, and is a fellow with the U.S. Army’s
Advanced Strategic Planning and Policy Program.
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