David Bruns earned a Bachelor of Science in Honors English from the United States Naval Academy. often serves as a visiting lecturer, teaching national security courses in Carleton College\'s Department of Political Science, and hosts his radio show, National Security This Week, on KYMN Radio in Northfield, Minnesota..
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Naval War College in 2004, and in August of 2018 he completed a Master of Public Affairs degree at the Humphrey School at the University of Minnesota. earned an MA in National Security and Strategic Studies at the U.
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Navy in strategic-level Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection operations as a CIA-trained case officer.
His assignments during his 21-year career included duty aboard aircraft carriers and large deck amphibious ships, participation in numerous operations around the world, to include Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, and Afghanistan, and service in the U.
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He served as a naval intelligence officer, retiring in March of 2011 at the rank of commander.
Olson graduated from Annapolis in May of 1990 with a BS in History.
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Today, he co-writes contemporary national security thrillers with retired naval intelligence officer, J.
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A graduate of the prestigious Clarion West Writers Workshop, he is the author of over twenty novels and dozens of short stories.
It was totally worth it.) Following six years as a US Navy submarine officer, David spent twenty years in the high-tech private sector.
He\'s probably the only English major you\'ll ever meet who took multiple semesters of calculus, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, naval architecture, and weapons systems just so he could read some Shakespeare. (That\'s not a typo.
David Bruns earned a Bachelor of Science in Honors English from the United States Naval Academy
