Biography
LTC Joseph C. Myers received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a concentration in National Security and Public Affairs and has a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. In 2004, he completed an Army Chief of Staff Senior Fellowship at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Public Policy program at Auburn University.
LTC Myers is an Infantry and Foreign Area Officer with 13 years of overseas service in four countries. He is extensively traveled throughout Latin America and Europe. His military education includes the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Special Operations Training (SOT), Strategic Mobility Planning Course, the Combined Arms Services Staff School, Security Assistance Management Course, and the Command and General Staff College. He is also Airborne and Ranger qualified.
LTC Myers has served in a variety of Infantry command and staff assignments in Panama and with the 10th Mountain Division and the Jungle Operations Training Battalion. As a Foreign Area Officer he served at US Southern Command and with US Army South, to include duty as a Panama Canal Treaty officer and member of the US-Panama Bi-national Committee. He has served in two Embassies, Caracas, Venezuela and Buenos Aires, Argentina. As the Army Section Chief and the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Officer in Argentina he managed training and assistance programs for the Argentine Army, Gendarmerie and the Federal Police terrorism response unit.
From 1997-2000, LTC Myers was Chief of the South America Division for Regional Military Assessments and Senior Military Analyst for Colombia at the Defense Intelligence Agency. There he played a leading role in two national intelligence estimates for Colombia. His first published intelligence product, A Critical Analysis of Colombia’s Counterinsurgency, was recognized as a “breakthrough assessment” that laid the intelligence foundation in the policy community for what would ultimately become “Plan Colombia.”
He produced two other major strategic assessments, “Colombia’s Insurgency: Military Implications from Las Delicias to Mitu” which evaluated the increasing threat, strategy and capabilities of Colombia’s insurgents, followed by the first ever study of the political base of Colombia’s insurgents and their informational warfare campaigns titled, Colombia’s Insurgency: Information Warfare and Popular Front Activities. Additionally, his division’s oversight and analysis of the growing Peru-Ecuador border crisis of 1998 was credited with driving “national warning” and helping to prevent that crisis from escalating to full-blown war.
His work at DIA was recognized by the Commander of US Southern Command, regional Ambassadors, on Capitol Hill, at the National Security Council and by the Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy. On 30 August 2000, he was awarded the Nation’s second highest national intelligence award, the Medal of Achievement, by the Director of Central Intelligence for his leadership in the intelligence community and service impacting national security determinations for Colombia.
LTC Myers currently serves as the Army Advisor to the Commandant of the Air Command and Staff College and as an instructor in the Joint Forces program. He appears as a regular national security commentator on the syndicated radio program,
The Right Balance. He continues to be published on a range of national security topics related to Islamic terrorism, insurgency, proliferation, nuclear deterrence strategy, homeland security and disaster response. His publications and opinions have appeared in
Parameters, the Journal of the Army War College, DefenseNews, the American Thinker, Frontpage Magazine, WorldNet Daily, the WorldTribune.com and the Birmingham News and Montgomery Advertiser.
