Col. Mark Mykleby, USMC, Ret.
Sustainability: An American Grand Strategy for the 21st Century
Join the World Affairs Council of Charlotte as we host Col. Mark Mikleby, Ret., on January 22nd as he discusses reorganizing America’s domestic and foreign policy strategies to match the challenges and realities of the 21st century.
In July 2009, Admiral Mullen, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, asked Captain Wayne Porter, USN, and Colonel Mark Mykleby, USMC, to develop some ideas around a grand strategy for the nation in the 21st Century. By August 2009, Porter and Mykleby wrote “A National Strategic Narrative”, a concept paper that offered sustainability as the organizing logic for an American grand strategy. Such a central idea would establish the framework for converging and expanding US domestic and foreign policy toward emerging opportunities, rather than exclusively on perceived threats and risks. Now a Co-Director at the Strategic Innovation Lab at Case Western Reserve University, Mykleby is working with Patrick Doherty to develop the “so what” of the National Strategic Narrative; creating the strategic construct to implement the concept of sustainability as the American grand strategic imperative for the 21st Century.
Date: January 22, 2015
Location: Charlotte City Club (121 W. Trade St.) – Directions
Lunch, Presentation & Q&A: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Cost:
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$50 (non-Members)
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Biography
Mark Mykleby was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps following his graduation from the United States Naval Academy in 1987. He was designated a naval aviator in April 1990 and as a qualified F/A-18 pilot in December 1990. From January 1991 to May 2006, he served in five fleet fighter squadrons and performed numerous operational squadron billets to include Director of Safety and Standardization, Pilot Training Officer, Aircraft Maintenance Officer, Operations Officer, Executive Officer, and Commanding Officer. He is a graduate of Marine Weapons and Tactics Instructor School (WTI), the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Topgun), and the Allied Air Forces Central Europe’s Tactical Leadership Program (TLP). Mark’s operational and combat experience includes numerous deployments (land based and ship borne) to the European, Pacific, and Southwest Asian theaters in support of Operations PROVIDE PROMISE, DENY FLIGHT, SOUTHERN WATCH, IRAQI FREEDOM, and ENDURING FREEDOM.
His staff experience includes serving as the George Washington Battle Group liaison officer to Joint Task Force-Southwest Asia (Eskan Village, Saudi Arabia) in 1997, serving as a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Staff Training Program (MSTP) instructor from 1999-2001, and serving as the Harry S. Truman Battle Group liaison officer to the NATO Combined Air Operations Center Five (CAOC-5) headquarters (Poggio Renautico, Italy) in January 2003. In June 2007, Mark was assigned to the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) where he developed strategy for Special Operations Forces. From July 2009 until April 2011, he served as a special strategic assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In that capacity, he co-authored with Navy Captain Wayne Porter A National Strategic Narrative, a concept and vision for a 21st Century grand strategy for the nation. Mark retired from the Marine Corps in July 2011.
Following retirement, Mark served as a senior fellow at the New America Foundation from August 2011 to August 2014. He is now the Co-Director of the Strategic Innovation Lab at Case Western Reserve University where he continues his work on grand strategy and sustainability.
Mark graduated from the United States Naval Academy with distinction in 1987. He earned a Masters of Military Studies from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in 1999. In May 2007, he graduated from the Air War College with distinction and earned a Masters of Strategic Studies.
