Thomas Whitaker Information

Thomas has over twenty-five years of military experience including eight years as a senior United States Army Civil Affairs Officer culminating as a Lieutenant Colonel. Additionally, he has over ten years of civilian experience with the United States Department of Defense. His area of expertise is in U.S. military doctrine development with an emphasis on Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD); Countering Threat Networks; Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Response; and Nuclear Operations. He is skilled in strategic, operational, and tactical-level planning of military operations across the full spectrum of the conflict continuum. Thomas leads a team of doctrine writers for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and was part of the writing group for U.S. Joint Publication (JP) 3-40, Joint Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD). Currently, he is part of the writing group for the revision of JP 3-25, Joint Countering Threat Networks (CTN). His focus is on educating the military community of the ever-changing challenges associated with pathway defeat, counterproliferation and nonproliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and the threat, friendly, and neutral networks that support them. He is a certified Joint Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Planner.