W. Eugene Cobble, Jr., Ph.D.

Expertise

• NATO
• European Union
• Defense industrial collaboration
• Effects-based assessment and operations
• AFRICOM

W. Eugene Cobble, Jr., Ph.D. is a specialist on Euro-Atlantic security and interstate political-military cooperation. His studies at CNA have focused on naval international collaborative procurement, improving interoperability between the U.S. Navy and its principal international partners, foreign navy capability assessments, and USN crisis-response issues. He has served as the CNA scientific analyst to OPNAV N81 and as the embedded field representative to Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa, located in Djibouti.

Recent Work: Iranian regime dynamics; ballistic missile proliferation networks historical trends in U.S. Navy crisis response; Mediterranean basin naval theater security cooperation; Pan-African theater security cooperation engagement metrics.

Education: Ph.D. and M.A. in Government (International Relations), Cornell University. B.A. in Political Science, Vanderbilt University

Languages: German

Publications of Interest:

• U.S. Naval Responses to Situations, 1970-1999, CNA Research Memorandum D0002763.A2/Final Unclassified, December 2000.
• Require­ments Harmonization as a Cooperative Navy Acquisition Strategy: Possibilities and Pitfalls, CNA Research Memorandum D0005020.A2/Final Unclassified, March 2002.
• “The Politics of Identity and Interest in European Defense Industrial Collaboration,” Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, May 2004.
• Withdrawing from Long Occupations: Insights from Iraq, Aden, and Afghanistan (U), CNA Research Memorandum D0020511.A2/Final Unclassified, July 2009.