Colonel (ret.) Christopher Holshek has over 30 years of
civil-military experience at the strategic, operational, and
tactical levels in joint, interagency, and multinational settings across the full range of operations, including as Senior U.S. Military Observer and Chief of Civil-Military
Coordination in the UN Mission in Liberia and command
of the first CA battalion to deploy to Iraq in support of
Army, Marine and British forces. He helped develop Joint,
Army, NATO, and UN civil-military policy and doctrine.
An executive member of the UN Association and the U.S.
Global Leadership Coalition’s “Veterans for Smart Power,”
he also writes extensively on peace & security, strategy,
and civil-military issues, including for Foreign Policy and
The Huffington Post. His book, Travels with Harley – A
Journey through America in search of Personal and National Identity, is being published by Inkshares.com.