David McIntyre
Adjunct Faculty and Director of Texas A&M University's Integrative Center for Homeland Security
Dr. Dave McIntyre is the Director of the Integrative Center for Homeland Security at Texas A&M University. He also teaches homeland security and terrorism at the Bush School for Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where he directs the graduate Certificate for Homeland Security program. He hosts the weekly radio short "Just a Minute for Homeland Security" and co-hosts the hour long program "Homeland Security: Inside and Out", broadcast weekly on KAMU in College Station Texas, and streamed worldwide. He is presently directing the establishment of a Masters of Science degree in Policy, Science, Engineering, and Technology for Homeland Security at Texas A&M.
Dr. McIntyre is on the Steering Committee of the Homeland Security / Defense Educational Consortium, which includes more than 150 universities, and USNORTHCOM. He also serves on the Advisory Panel of the University and Colleges Committee of the International Association of Emergency Managers. He is a Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute, George Washington University, in Washington, DC. And he was recently elected to the national Board of Director of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, a public-private partnership with the FBI.
A nationally recognized analyst and teacher specializing in national and homeland security, Dr. McIntyre is a 30 year Army veteran, who has been designing and teaching national and homeland security strategy at senior levels of government for more than 20 years. Between 2001 and 2003, Dr. McIntyre served as Deputy Director of the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, the nation's only not-for-profit think tank focused solely on homeland security. In that capacity he contributed to dozens of conferences and exercises for audiences ranging from the leadership of the Department of Agriculture, to congressional staff members, to members of Washington DC universities and think tanks, to international visitors sponsored by the Department of State. His special focus was the evolving logic, structure and business of homeland security.
In 2001 Dr. McIntyre retired from the U.S. military as the Dean of Faculty at the National War College. During his eight years there, he taught strategy, operations, and interagency coordination, leading seminars through individual analysis, group exercises, and experiential learning. As Dean, he supervised a 25% increase in faculty, initiated a faculty development program, and conceived and directed a college wide strategy exercise linking 200 players through laptop computers.
Dr. McIntyre's approach to strategic problem solving is built on six years of practical experience writing for four-star military leaders, including the Army Chief of Staff, and the Commander of all US forces in the Asia-Pacific region. He led or participated in delegations to more than two dozen countries. He also taught English as a faculty member at West Point. He was airborne, ranger, and jumpmaster qualified, and served in airborne and reconnaissance units.
Dr. McIntyre's easy but direct manner as a teacher and facilitator have attracted many media outlets. His work includes scores of national appearances on CNBC, FOX, ABC, MSNBC, CNN's Crossfire, CSPAN, The History Channel, Voice of America, and the US State Department's "Dialogue" series. Internationally, he has been on Australian, British, Canadian, Egyptian, French and German television. He also participated in many national and international radio programs, appearing with Bill Press, Oliver North, Janet Parshall, and Armstrong Williams in the US, Roy Green in Canada, and the BBC worldwide. In Washington, DC, he contributed to WMAL, WTOP, and NPR radio, and appeared more than 80 times on WUSA-TV. During the Iraq War, he was the military commentator for the Voice of America's News Line television program, broadcast to American embassies world wide.
He is the coeditor with Mr William Hancock of the two volume work Business Continuity and Homeland Security: Theory & Practice (Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, forthcoming).
Dr. McIntyre holds a BS in Engineering from West Point, an MA in English and American Literature from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of the US Army War College and the National War College.
