Instructor/Assistant/Associate/Professor - Warfighting Studies

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Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Successful candidates should demonstrate, at a level appropriate to the rank sought: - A Masters or Terminal Degree - Academic or professional expertise relevant to contemporary warfighting together with broad judgment beyond a narrow specialty. - Ability to build cadet understanding across tactical, operational, and strategic levels as one coherent warfighting system. - Ability to cultivate an Airman and Guardian perspective while integrating joint and multidomain effects. - Knowledge of high-end conflict, including sensing, autonomy, contested space, cyber and electronic warfare, long-range effects, contested command and control, and AI. - Ability to design or employ immersive wargaming, simulations, digital environments, decision exercises, and after-action processes integrating adversary behavior, technology, theory, strategy, and national purpose. - Knowledge of effective undergraduate teaching and ability to collaborate across disciplines and professional communities while maintaining academic, operational, and professional currency. Associate Professors and Professors should additionally demonstrate progressively greater academic leadership. ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES: Relevant fields may include military, war, strategic, security, or national-security studies; military history; international relations; political science; defense policy; airpower; spacepower; cyber; AI; autonomous systems; electronic warfare; information operations; intelligence; operational planning or art; joint operations; wargaming; modeling and simulation; operations research; military innovation; defense technology; logistics; acquisition; professional military education; or another closely related field supporting Warfighting. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: - Excellent undergraduate, graduate, or professional military teaching, especially in interdisciplinary or applied settings. - Experience with military theory or history, strategy, operational art, joint or all-domain operations, airpower, spacepower, cyber, or related fields. - Experience designing or employing immersive wargaming, scenario-based instruction, simulation, digital operational environments, decision exercises, or comparable experiential learning. - Experience with high-end warfighting, adaptive adversaries, or emerging technologies such as AI, autonomy, contested space, cyber, or electronic warfare. - Relevant operational, command or staff, government, defense, intelligence, industry, professional military education, curriculum-development, or research experience. Applicants will be evaluated on their ability to contribute to the teaching-centered, integrated mission of SIGS, including: - Academic or professional preparation, warfighting expertise and breadth, and undergraduate or professional military teaching effectiveness. - Ability to build a coherent Airman and Guardian mental model across tactical, operational, and strategic levels while remaining fully joint and multidomain. - Knowledge of high-end conflict and the emerging character of war, including AI and rapidly evolving technologies. - Experience with immersive wargaming, simulation, digital operational environments, scenario-based instruction, or comparable applied learning. - Ability to integrate military theory, history, technology, strategy, policy, ethics, law, operational practice, and national purpose. - Cadet mentorship, intellectual, operational or professional engagement, service, collaboration, and leadership appropriate to rank. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae or resume and a cover letter describing how they would contribute to an integrated Warfighting thread; prepare cadets for high-end conflict from a fully joint Airman and Guardian perspective; and use immersive exercises or wargaming to integrate military, technical, humanistic, and strategic judgment. Inquiries about the position should be directed to the Dean, School of Integrated General Studies (SIGS), Dr. Mark N. Jensen, email: mark.jensen@afacademy.af.edu. Please do not email documents or completed applications to this address as they will not be considered.