About
AT A GLANCE:
Non-Resident Fellow, Editor-in-Chief, PRISM: The Journal of Complex Operations, Irregular
Warfare Center
RESEARCH AREAS:
- Narrative warfare
- Influence tradecraft
- Cognititve warfare
- Use of AI and emerging technologies to achieve kinetic and non-kinetic effects
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Pennell is a former U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer (Minister-Counselor rank)
with vast experience in all regions of the world. Currently, he’s a contractor with
the U.S. Department of War’s (DOW) Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) as Editor-in-Chief
of PRISM: The Journal of Complex Operations and as a Senior Practitioner and Curriculum
Developer. He’s also a Non-Resident Fellow with the Irregular Warfare Institute (IWI),
a Senior Fellow with Narrative-Strategies, and a guest speaker and lecturer on information
operations, hybrid warfare, and new technologies with U.S. and international universities,
the U.S. State Department, and U.S. professional military education (PME) institutions.
He’s a published author, including a 2024 book on Russia’s irregular activities in
Syria and Ukraine. He holds a PhD from King’s College London and masters degrees from
the U.S. National War College and American University. He’s a lifetime member of the
American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) and Information Professionals Association
(IPA).
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