Director
Colonel Patrick J. Sullivan is a career engineer officer who has commanded at every level from company through brigade, with service in the 10th Mountain Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 82nd Airborne Division, and 20th Engineer Brigade (XVIII Airborne Corps). His staff assignments include instructor and assistant professor at West Point’s Department of Mathematical Sciences, United States Military Academy; Director, Commander’s Action Group, U.S. Forces—Afghanistan; Director of the NATO Resolute Support staff; and Command Engineer, United States Forces Korea. He is veteran of eight operational deployments in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, Inherent Resolve, Freedom’s Sentinel, and Spartan Shield.
A 1996 ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate, he holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering from Duke University, a master of science in applied and interdisciplinary mathematics from the University of Michigan, a master of defense studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, and a master of strategic studies from the United States Army War College, where he was a distinguished graduate and won the Commandant’s Award for Distinction in Research. He is a PhD candidate in the Royal Military College of Canada’s War Studies Program and expects to complete his dissertation in summer of 2022.
Pat’s primary research interests are organizational design, defense planning, and civil-military relations.