David H. Ucko, Ph.D., is professor and department chair at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) of the National Defense University, Washington DC. He is also the Director of the Regional Defense Fellowship Program (RDFP), focused on irregular warfare education and partnership capacity building. Dr Ucko is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a senior visiting fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. Dr Ucko has published several books on counterinsurgency, war-to-peace transition, civil wars, and military intervention. Most recently, he authored The Insurgent's Dilemma: A Struggle to Prevail (Hurst / Oxford University Press, 2022). His publications also include a wide variety of peer-reviewed articles on political violence, strategy, and irregular warfare. Dr Ucko was previously program coordinator and research fellow for the Conflict, Security & Development Research Group at the Department of War Studies, King's College London. He has also held visiting fellowships and research positions at a variety of think-tanks, including the RAND Corporation in Washington DC, the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in both in DC and in London. At IISS, he worked as a Deputy Defense Analyst for armed conflict and helped create and develop the Armed Conflict Database, an online and interactive repository of information on conflict worldwide. Dr Ucko obtained his Ph.D. at the Department of War Studies in 2007, with a thesis examining the US military's institutional learning of counterinsurgency in the 2001-07 period. In 2001, he was awarded a First Class BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and, in 2004 a Master's at the Department of War Studies.