Career
Robbins taught at
The Fletcher School,
Boston University,
Marine Corps University,
National Defense University, and other schools. In 2001, Robbins was a professor of International Relations at the
National Defense University. In 2007, Robbins was appointed Director of the Intelligence Community Center at
Trinity Washington University. In 2008, he was selected as Program Chair of the Master of Arts in International Security Studies at Trinity Washington. In 2009, Robbins was appointed Senior Editorial Writer for Foreign Affairs at the
Washington Times, where he worked until November 2012. From April to August 2013, Robbins served as Deputy Editor of Rare, a conservative web site that is part of the
Cox Media Group. In 2013 Robbins joined the USA Today board of contributors and is a US News contributor as well. In addition to writing three books, he has written frequent articles for the
National Review, the
Washington Times, and a variety of other publications, including
The Wall Street Journal,
USA Today,
The Baltimore Sun, and
The Boston Herald. He is a frequent commentator on national and international
television and radio. Robbins is Senior Fellow in National Security Affairs at the
American Foreign Policy Council. He serves on the Advisory Board of the
National Civil War Museum. ==Books==
Articles
• “Afghanistan: Back To Basics,” in The Journal of International Security Affairs no. 15, Fall 2008, pp. 79–88. • “Custer: The Goat at West Point and at War,” in Custer and His Times: Book Five, John P. Hart (ed), LaGrange Park, IL: Little Big Horn Associates (2008). • “Dangerous Deterrence,” in Taking on Tehran: Strategies for Confronting the Islamic Republic, Ilan Berman (ed), Washington: Rowman & Littlefield (2007). • “Insurgent Seizure of an Urban Area: Grozny, 1996,” in Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives, Volume III, James J.F. Forest (ed), McGraw Hill (2006). • “Battlefronts in the War of Ideas,” in Countering Terrorism and Insurgency in the 21st Century: International Perspectives, Volume I, James J.F. Forest (ed), McGraw Hill (2006). • “Iraq,” in Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism, Derek Reveron (ed), New York: Routledge Publishers (2006). • “Contemporary Operational-Level War Fighting” – a review of Nicholas E. Reynolds, Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond: The U.S. Marine Corps in the Second Iraq War, Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2005, in the Naval War College Review, Spring 2006, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 157–161. • “Soft Targets: Hard Choices,” in Homeland Security: Protecting America’s Targets, James J.F. Forest (ed), Westport, CT: Praeger Security International (2006). • "Al-Qaeda Versus Democracy," Journal of International Security Affairs No. 9 (Fall 2005). • “Terrorism, the Media, and Homeland Security,” in Homeland Security: Controlling the New Security Environment, Howard, Moore and Forest (eds), Guilford, CT: McGraw Hill Publishers (2005). • “Defeating Networked Terrorism,” in Defeating Terrorism: Shaping the New Security Environment, Howard and Sawyer (eds.), Guilford, CT: McGraw Hill Publishers (2004). • “Central Command: Tip of the Spear” in America’s Viceroys: The Military and U.S. Foreign Policy, Derek Reveron (ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers (2004). • “Bin Laden’s War,” in Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment, Howard and Sawyer (eds.), Guilford, CT: McGraw Hill Publishers (2003). ==Legacy and honors==