Leadership.
Director
As the Director of the Irregular Warfare Center, Dr. Walters draws on more than three decades of
operational and academic expertise to guide the Defense Department and the Interagency
approach to conflict and competition, focusing on irregular warfare.
Deputy Director & Chief of Staff
Dr. Lori Leffler has more than 30 years of experience developing and implementing strategic visions to lead national security missions and corporate organizations. Her experience includes quantitative and qualitative analysis, management studies, and reviews. Dr. Leffler’s ’s extensive management and supervisory experience and her strategic planning […]
Chief of Operations
Chief Warrant Officer Erik Herr, U.S. Army, Retired, brings over 34 years of operational and strategic leadership and change management garnered from both military service and corporate America. Erik enlisted in the United States Army as an electronic warfare systems repairer in 1991 assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division and later to units in Stuttgart and Heidelberg, Germany. […]
Chief of Curriculum and Senior Faculty
Dr. Gardner has been the Chief of Curriculum and Senior Faculty at the Irregular Warfare Center (IWC) since 2023. He is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who served at all levels from tactical to strategic. He has deployments to the Balkans, Afghanistan and in a Joint Special Operations Task Force in Iraq. He served at the U.S. European Command and on the staff of U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff […]
Senior Advisor for Global Sustainment, Contested Logistics, and Offensive Supply Chain Operations
MG (R) Ed Dorman serves as the Senior Advisor for Global Sustainment, Contested Logistics, and Offensive Supply Chain Operations at the Irregular Warfare Center (IWC). A leader in strategic sustainment, logistics warfare, and adversary disruption, he ensures that sustainment is treated as a critical warfighting function in both conventional and irregular warfare environments. […]
Deputy Regional Advisor for
U.S. European Command and
U.S. Africa Command
Dr. Fabian is a former Hungarian Special Forces officer with 20 years of military experience. Dr. Fabian served in multiple national assignments including the senior Special Forces desk officer and advisor to the Hungarian Chief of Defense and […]
Deputy Regional Advisor for
U.S. Pacific Command and
U.S. Forces Korea
Dr. Joshua Hastey joins the IWC from Regent University, where he serves as Director of the MA in National Security Studies Program and the Ph.D. in Government program in the Robertson School of Government. He has taught at the U.S. Naval […]