Lecturers at the Jefferson Educational Society

James Dubik is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General, serving in the U.S. Army for 37 years. General Dubik holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Philosophy from Gannon University, a PhD in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Military Arts and Sciences Degree from the United States Army Command and General Staff College. He is President and CEO of Dubik Associates - an international consulting firm with a focus on leader development, organizational change, and national strategic and intelligence issues.  General Dubik is also board member of Leadership Roundtable, a Catholic non-profit; Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War; member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Security Advisory Council, and the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition; a 2021-2022 non-resident Scholar at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington;  a 2017 Tomas B. Hagen Dignitas Award winner; 2012-2013 General Omar N. Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership; member of the U.S. Army Ranger Hall of Fame; as well as a distinguished member of the U.S. Army 75th Ranger Regiment. He has published over 250 monographs, essays, and opeds in a variety of publications, and has been quoted in numerous print and on-line media, frequent lecturer, panel member, and media analyst on national security issues. He is the author of Just War:  Strategy, Ethics, and Theory.  He now lives in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife, Sharon.