Burden of Command: A Tale of Extraordinary Leadership in Afghanistan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781456408138)

Lieutenant Colonel Raymond A. Millen (Ret) is the Security Sector Reform analyst at the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1982 and served as an infantry officer and Foreign Area Officer for Western Europe in a variety of command and staff assignments in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Continental United States as well as three tours in Afghanistan. He has published articles in a number of scholarly and professional journals to include Parameters, Special Warfare, Comparative Strategy Journal, Infantry Magazine and the Swiss Military Journal. His book, Command Legacy, was published by Brasseys in 2002 with a second edition by Potomac Books in 2008. Lieutenant Colonel Millen is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College (1997), and holds an M.A. degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University (1991) and an M.A. degree from Catholic University of America in World Politics (2006). He is currently All-But-Dissertation for his Ph.D. in World Politics at Catholic University of America. Professor Millen and his wife currently live in Pennsylvania.