Dylan Lee Lehrke, Phd Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Long Beach, California, United States

Manage the team responsible for Orders of Battle, Inventories, and Installations data for all military forces of nation states, as well as GIS, imagery analysis, and Russia force monitoring.

Developed, wrote, edited, and updated armed forces files for the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, and Denmark.

• Managed 70+ authors to produce high-quality case studies on U.S. national security challenges involving interagency responses (focusing on the period since 1947). Activities included author recruitment and editing.
• Authored case study on U.S. non-intervention during the 1994 Rwanda genocide and a mini-case study on the U.S. attempt to manage the 1970s energy crisis. Co-authored case study on U.S. intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo.
• Conducted, with other Working Group members, cross-case analysis to determine what recurring variables cause the U.S. national security system to fail to create and/or implement a strategy to successfully manage.
• Began working directly for Project in October 2007 as a Research Fellow. Working Group Chief of Staff from 1 March 2008 to 31 January 2009.

• Researched interagency reform for Project on National Security Reform.
• Analyzed defense transformation and budget.

• Organized visit, tours and workshops for a high-level Russian delegation.
• Assisted in creating program metrics for success.
• Edited and helped finalize full program review for Department of Energy head.
• Prepared presentations for department leadership and congress.

• Served as newspaper’s sole reporter covering the Washington State Legislature.
• Monitored all bills, legislation and parliamentary procedures.
• Broke story on first un-funded mandate to state for homeland security.

• Demonstrated capability to produce an average of an article a day.
• Covered riots, murders and eco-terrorism.
• Interviewed individuals such as Saad Eddin Ibrahim and William H. Gates.
• Undertook entrepreneurial stories about the impact of the US Patriot Act on research programs and a series about the collapse of the African studies program at the University. The program was subsequently revived.
• Society of Professional Journalists Regional Awards: First Place In-Depth News Reporting and First Place Spot News Reporting, 2003.
• Associated Collegiate Press: Third Place Reporter of the Year 2003-2004.

• Managed all aspects of newspaper with a daily circulation of 15,000.
• Solely responsible for editorial and ethical decisions.
• Determined hiring and payroll for staff of more than 100.
• Led the paper through the Columbia Tragedy in which an alumnus was killed and through the Iraq war, which was covered with local angles daily and through an arrangement with Lebanon’s Daily Star for a Middle East.

• Managed and trained about 30 reporters to cover the University community.
• Edited all news content.

• Broke story on an illegal contract between the college and a new dot-com company, leading to the largest individual fine assessed by State Ethics Board up to that point.

• Deployed to Kuwait as an armored fighting vehicle driver.
• Served as battalion operations assistant for one year. Responsible for drafting and issuing daily orders. Helped organize training for a peacekeeping mission.
• Deployed to Bosnia as task force operations assistant. Tasks ranged from managing daily patrols to briefing Generals to playing soccer with local children to guarding war crimes investigation sites.
• Awarded Army Achievement Medal and Army Commendation Medal.
• Commendation coin from General Wesley Clark.
• Letter of Commendation for service at JRTC (Pre-deployment Exercises).

Ph.D., Peace Studies

Thesis: My dissertation set out to conduct a utilitarian analysis of the moral-legal principles of warfare and more specifically to.

M.Phil., Peace Studies

Thesis: Created doctrine for outside forces to protect civilians in war zones (Granted with Distinction) Awards: • James Haire Memorial.

B.A, International Studies

Activities and Societies: The Daily of the University of Washington3.91 GPA, Magna Cum Laud

A.A.

Activities and Societies: • The Ebbtide student newspaper (2000-2001) • Shoreline Community College Economics Club President (1999-2000)..