James Van de Velde
James Van de Velde
Adjunct Faculty
• Cyber Issues/Network Warfare • Military Strategy/National Security Affairs • Counter Proliferation • Counter Terrorism Analyst • WMD Analyst • Nuclear Weapons Arms Control/Deterrence • Northeast Asia Politics • Afghanistan/Syria/al Qaida Analyst • Interrogator/Strategic Debriefer
James Van de Velde, Ph.D., LCDR USNR-retired, currently a cyber, WMD, intelligence, and counterterrorism analyst at the consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, is an Associate Professor at the US National Intelligence University and Adjunct Faculty Member at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University. He is a former Yale University Lecturer and residential college dean, State Department Foreign Service Officer, and strategic nuclear weapons arms control negotiator, and has served as a naval intelligence reserve officer for over 22 years.
Current Research
cyberspace issues
Selected Publications
eBook:
- Cyberspace and the Era of Persistent Confrontation, October 2019
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/985688
Articles:
- “Top Ten Statements Regarding Jihadist Use Of The Internet Designed Specifically To Upset Millennials!” (forthcoming)
- “When Does Election Interference Via Cyberspace Violate Sovereignty? Violations of Sovereignty, ‘Armed Attack,’ Acts of War, and Activities ‘Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict’ via Cyberspace” (forthcoming), for the proposed anthology, Democracy in the Crosshairs: Cyber Interference, Dark Money, and Foreign Influence, Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law Center
- “What Comes After ‘Persistent Engagement?’ ‘3G’ (‘Gates,’ ‘Guards,’ and ‘Guns’),” The Cipher Brief, August 28, 2019
- “Time to Fight Back Against China's Massive Intellectual Property Theft,” The American Thinker, January 18, 2019
- “Cyber's Future is Cloudy With a Chance of Persistent Authoritarianism,” The Cipher Brief, August 22, 2018
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/cyber-forecast-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-persistent-authoritarianism
- “Make Cyberspace Great Again Too!,” Real Clear Defense, July 23, 2018
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/07/23/make_cyberspace_great_again_too_113634.html
- “The Shortsightedness of Obama-Era Cyberspace Operations Policy,” The Cipher Brief, June 21, 2018
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/opinion/short-sightedness-obama-era-cyber-operations-policy
- “Why Cyber Norms Are Dumb and Advance Russian Interests,” The Cipher Brief, June 6, 2018
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column_article/cyber-norms-dumb-serve-russian-interests
- “Trump Effect Comes to Afghanistan,” Real Clear Defense, May 12, 2018
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2018/05/12/trump_effect_comes_to_afghanistan_113435.html
- “How Deterrence Fundamentals Operate in Cyberspace,” The Cipher Brief, October 4, 2017 https://www.thecipherbrief.com/column/strategic-view/deterrence-fundamentals-function-cyberspace
- “The Fifth Domain Won’t Be the Sole Battleground,” The Cipher Brief, August 30, 2017
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/exclusive/tech/fifth-domain-wont-sole-battleground
- “Russia is at ‘Info War’ With the United States,” The Cipher Brief, November 17, 2016
- “Go Ahead. Let Japan and South Korea Go Nuclear,” The National Interest, October 1, 2016
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/go-ahead-let-japan-south-korea-go-nuclear-17897
- “’War in Peace:’ Cyberspace and the Era of Persistent Confrontation,” The American Interest, September 5, 2016
http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/09/06/war-in-peace/
- “How to Defeat ISIS: Crash Their Comms,” The American Interest, June 10, 2015
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/06/10/crash-their-comms/
- “Syria’s Future is Sectarian Division,” Small Wars Journal, May 2, 2014
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/syria%E2%80%99s-future-is-sectarian-division
- “Syria’s Deepening Hell,” The American Interest, May/June 2013
http://www.the-american-interest.com/index.cfm
- “Ending al-Qaeda,” (cover story) The American Interest, July/August 2011
http://www.the-american-interest.com/contents.cfm
- ‘‘’Bring it On’… Worked,” Small Wars Journal, September 1, 2010 http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2010/09/bring-it-on-worked/
- “The Impossible Challenge of Deterring ‘Nuclear Terrorism’ by al-Qa’ida,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, August 2010
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2010.494155
Expanded Publication List
Courses Taught
Associate Professor, National Intelligence University
- Northeast Asia: Geostrategic Intelligence Issues (winter 2014-2015; 2016-2017; summer 2018)
- Intelligence Collection (summer 2015, 2016)
- Cyber Intelligence (fall 2016)
- Foreign Information and Cyber Strategies (winter 2016; spring 2018)
- WMD Terrorism (spring 2016; summer 2019, spring 2020)
- Thesis Methodology and Design (spring 2019)
Adjunct Faculty, Johns Hopkins University
- Great Power Competition: How States ‘Fight’ Below the Level of Armed Conflict (fall 2021)
- Violent Islamist Extremism and the American Response (fall 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
Adjunct Faculty, Georgetown University
- WMD Terrorism (spring 2016, 2018, 2019)
- Research Seminar (the second-year graduate course for one’s thesis) (spring 2014; 2015)
Lecturer, Yale University
- Strategy and Policy in the Conduct of War (fall 1998)
- The Art of Diplomacy (spring 1994, 1995, fall 1998)
- International Drug Trafficking (fall 1995, 1996)
- Intelligence Collection and Analysis (spring 1996)
Teaching Assistant, Stanford University
- Arms Control and International Stability (spring 1986)
Education
- PhD, International Security Studies with High Honors in American and Asian History, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1988. GPA: 3.74. Thesis, ‘Japan’s Emergence into Western Security Doctrine.’ (The thesis traced the change in Japan from reluctant, post-war client to the American cold war security framework in Asia to willing ally of American security policy worldwide, including the US extended nuclear deterrence policy in Asia.)
- Fellow, U.S.-Japan Program, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1987-1988
- Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, 1985-1987
- BA, cum laude, with Distinction in the Major, Political Science, Yale University, 1982. GPA: 3.4. Sumitomo Fellowship Winner. Voted National Chairman, US-Japan Student Conference, 1981