William J. Lademan, Director, USMC Wargaming Division, 2008 - present

    In May, 2008, Dr. Lademan assumed his current position as the Director,

Wargaming Division at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Quantico,

Virginia. He helped establish the Marine Corps' Wargaming Center in the

early 1990s. He has been a wargame enthusiast since he first pushed

cardboard playing Avalon Hill's Gettysburg in 1958 and has used wargaming

throughout his career in the illumination of operational and strategic

issues.

       Dr. Lademan possesses twenty years of experience in command and

staff positions as a Marine Corps infantry officer. He has conducted

operations, intelligence, logistics, and planning functions from platoon

through division assignments with the Fleet and at the service and national

levels as a joint staff officer.

    Upon retirement from the Marine Corps, he finished doctoral studies in

physical chemistry and taught at the college level. Dr. Lademan developed an

expertise in the technology, employment, and effects of Weapons of Mass

Destruction (WMD). He was involved in Homeland Security training programs

designed to prepare municipalities and military bases for WMD incidents.

Joining Booz Allen Hamilton in 2004, he was involved in wargame design and

execution. He also acted as the scientific lead for the Office of Naval Research in examining science and technology solutions to capability gaps identified in Urban, Asymmetric, and Expeditionary Warfare. He was a member of the concept team that produced the Joint Integrating Concept on the Elimination of WMDs.

EDUCATION

Lehigh University, Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Studies in National Security

Salve Regina College, M.A. in International Relations

United States Naval War College, M.A. in Strategic Studies

National War College (National Security Policy)

St. Louis University, M.S. in Physical Chemistry

United States Naval Academy, B.S. in Chemistry

(Last Updated 29 June 2012.)

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