David L. Thomas

Department of Defense

Professional Experience

Former analyst, Soviet/Warsaw Pact Division, Foreign Intelligence Directorate, DIA
Analyst, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Adjunct Professor, National Security Studies Program, Georgetown University (1987-1994)
Research Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (1981-1986)
Lecturer, National War College
Lecturer, National Defense University
Lecturer, Joint Military Intelligence College
Lecturer, Central Intelligence Agency

Education

B.A. & M.A., 1970, Brown University
D-Phil., 1980, Oxford University

Courses

Counterintelligence in a Democratic Society

Estimative Intelligence Analysis and Epistemology

Military Intelligence and Modern Warfare

U.S. Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond

Counterintelligence in a Democratic Society

This course examines the role of counterintelligence as an essential element of U.S. national security strategy, and the importance of counterintelligence in international relations. The course will approach counterintelligence from the following perspectives: legal, ethical, historical, operational, epistemological, and national-strategic.

Principal Professor

David L. Thomas

Estimative Intelligence Analysis and Epistemology

The course is designed to provide an in depth understanding of the fundamentals of a central element of the intelligence and national security process: estimative analysis.

Principal Professor

David L. Thomas

Military Intelligence and Modern Warfare

This course assesses the role and importance of military intelligence in modern warfare and is designed to familiarize the student with key sources, components, and methods of modern military intelligence, including U.S. and foreign approaches.

Principal Professor

David L. Thomas

U.S. Intelligence in the Cold War and Beyond

Secret intelligence is the "missing dimension" of Cold War history, as it is of most diplomatic history. This course analyzes a selective history of the U.S. intelligence community in the Cold War in order to assess its overall role. On the basis of declassified intelligence records and eyewitness accounts of former senior intelligence officers, the course focuses on what the intelligence community collected, knew, and estimated, and how intelligence reporting did or did not affect U.S. national security strategy and policy.

Principal Professor

David L. Thomas