Col. Scott White is the assistant chief of staff for operations for U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Liberty, North Carolina. Previously, he was the commander of the 193rd Infantry Brigade, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He deployed four times to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. He graduated in 1998 from The Citadel, South Carolina, and has two master’s degrees: one in defense analysis (irregular warfare) from the Naval Postgraduate School, and one in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.