Owens has previously served as a
national security advisor to
Senator Bob Kasten and in the
Department of Energy under the
Reagan administration. From 1990 to 1997, Owens was
editor-in-chief of the defense journal
Strategic Review and an adjunct professor of
international relations at what is now the
Pardee School of Global Studies at
Boston University. Owens served as an
infantry platoon commander from 1968 to 1969 in
Vietnam during the
Vietnam War, during which he was wounded twice, and awarded the
Silver Star. He retired from the
Marine Corps Reserve as a
colonel in 1994. He holds a
Ph.D in politics from the
University of Dallas, a
Master of Arts in economics from the
University of Oklahoma, and a
Bachelor of Arts from the
University of California, Santa Barbara. His book,
US Civil-Military Relations After 9/11: Renegotiating the Civil-Military Bargain, was published by
Continuum in January 2011. It explains some of the key issues that surround the relations between the military and its civilian control in the US today. Owens contends "that
women in combat undermine
unit cohesion and thereby generate
Clausewitzian friction." ==References==