John Allen Williams is a professor of political science at Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1870 under the title St...

 and is Chair and President of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society

Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society

The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society ' is a professional organization and forum for the exchange and evaluation of research on military institutions, civil-military relations, and military sociology with a broad emphasis across the social and behavioral sciences...

. He serves on the editorial board of the National Strategy Forum in Chicago and is on the board of directors for the Pritzker Military Library.

John Williams is a retired Captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve, where he served aboard the USS Columbus

USS Columbus

Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Columbus, the first two after the explorer Christopher Columbus, and the other two after Columbus, Ohio, the capital of the state....

 (CG-12) and at the U.S. Naval Academy. As a strategic plans officer in the U.S. Navy, he also served on active and reserve duty with the Chief of Naval Operations

Chief of Naval Operations

The Chief of Naval Operations is a statutory office held by a four-star admiral in the United States Navy, and is the most senior uniformed officer assigned to serve in the Department of the Navy. The office is a military adviser and deputy to the Secretary of the Navy...

 (Strategic Concepts Branch), the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Joint Chiefs of Staff

The Joint Chiefs of Staff is a body of senior uniformed leaders in the United States Department of Defense who advise the Secretary of Defense, the Homeland Security Council, the National Security Council and the President on military matters...

 (Strategy Branch), the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Office of the Secretary of Defense

The Office of the Secretary of Defense is a headquarters-level staff of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. It is the principal civilian staff element of the Secretary of Defense, and it assists the Secretary in carrying out authority, direction and control of the Department...

 (Assistant Principal Deputy Undersecretary for Strategy and Resources), the Naval War College

Naval War College

The Naval War College is an education and research institution of the United States Navy that specializes in developing ideas for naval warfare and passing them along to officers of the Navy. The college is located on the grounds of Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island...

, and the Commander, Second Fleet.

John Williams is notable for his contributions to the study of the military, civil-military relations

Civil-military relations

Civil–military relations describes the relationship between civil society as a whole and the military organization or organizations established to protect it. More narrowly, it describes the relationship between the civil authority of a given society and its military authority...

, and national security strategy. He has published extensively on these topics, co-authoring works with other notable figures in civil-military relations such as Sam C. Sarkesian, Charles C. Moskos

Charles Moskos

Charles C. Moskos was a sociologist of the United States Military and a professor at Northwestern University...

, David R. Segal.

Notable publications

• U.S. National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 4rd Edition (coauthor, with Sam C. Sarkesian and Stephen J. Cimbala) (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 2008).
• The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces After the Cold War (coeditor and contributor, with Charles C. Moskos
  Charles Moskos
  Charles C. Moskos was a sociologist of the United States Military and a professor at Northwestern University...
  
  and David R. Segal) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Soldiers, Society, and National Security (coauthor, with Sam C. Sarkesian and Fred B. Bryant) (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 1995).
• “The U.S. Military: Balancing Old and New Challenges,” National Strategy Forum Review (Winter, 2009), pp. 31–38.
• “The Military and Society Beyond the Postmodern Era,” Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs 52, No. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 199–216.
• “Understanding Asymmetric Warfare: Threats and Responses,” National Strategy Forum Review (Summer 2007), pp. 23–26.
• "The U.S. Naval Academy: Stewardship and Direction," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 123, No. 5 (May 1997), pp. 67–72.
• "The New Military Professionals," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 122, No. 5 (May 1996), pp. 42–48.
• “Civil-Military Relations and the American Way of War”, in Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., Civil-Military Relations in Perspective: Strategy, Structure and Policy (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming 2011).
• “Civil-Military Relations in the Second Bush Administration,” in Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., The George W. Bush Defense Program: Policy, Strategy, & War (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2010), pp. 101–111.
• “Educating Military Officers for an Ambiguous Strategic Future,” Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, September 10, 2009.
• “Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences of the Creation of the All-Volunteer Force,” in The U.S. Citizen-Soldier at War: A Retrospective Look and the Road Ahead (Chicago: McCormick Foundation, 2008).
• “Political Science Perspectives on the Military and Civil-Military Relations,” in Giuseppe Caforio, ed., Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Overview (London and New York: Routledge, 2007).
• “Do Military Policies on Gender and Sexuality Undermine Combat Effectiveness?” (with Laura L. Miller), in Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn, eds., Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 361–402.

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