Kenneth J. Alnwick

Col Kenneth J. Alnwick, USAF, retired, is president of the Alnwick Design Group, Ltd., which provides war-gaming, simulation, and analysis services to clients in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area. He was born in 1937 and graduated from the US Air Force Academy in 1960. He received a master of history degree from the University of California at Davis in 1968. He served four tours in Southeast Asia between 1963 and 1975, flying special operations combat missions from South Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Other assignments included teaching at the USAF Academy’s Department of History and serving on the Air Staff in the Pentagon (Plans and Policy). At Maxwell AFB, Alabama, he served on the Air War College faculty for two years and graduated there in 1982. He then became the founding director of the Air University’s College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research and Education (CADRE), winning the McKay Trophy for this contribution. Colonel Alnwick completed his military career as director of the War Gaming and Simulation Center and deputy director of the Strategic Concepts Development Center at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. After retiring from the Air Force in 1986 and working a brief stint as vice president for operations at EAST, Inc., he became project manager, vice president, and director of gaming and simulation programs for Kapos Associates Inc. (KAI) and Emergent Government Services, providing analysis, gaming, and simulation services to numerous government agencies. He became a private consultant in 2001. In addition to helping write this book, he also advised Thomas Reed, another former secretary of the Air Force, on his Cold War memoir, At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War. Ken coaches Lacrosse at Falls Church High School, where his wife Judy teaches, and he is a trustee of the Air Force Historical Foundation.

[from pages xiii-xiv of Reflections of a Technocrat, published 2006]