Col. James Kennedy, U.S. Army retired, is an associate professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He served 25 years in the Army, retiring in 2014 as contingency operations branch chief, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, U.S. Army, the Pentagon. He deployed to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and Pakistan. He has three master’s degrees: in education from George Mason University, Virginia; in business management from the Florida Institute of Technology; and in military art and science from the Command and General Staff College.