Lieutenant Colonel Edward Arntson, U.S. Army

Ed Arntson is affiliated with the Clements Center through the U.S. Army War College fellowship program. He recently relinquished battalion command of 3-187 Infantry in the 101^st Airborne Division, a command which included an 11-month deployment to the Southwest Border of the United States in support of the U.S. Border Patrol. Before battalion command, Ed served on the Joint Staff, as Aide-de-Camp for the Commander of III Corps and Fort Hood, and as the operations officer for both the 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division and 4^th Battalion, 3^rd U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard). As a junior officer, Ed served in airborne and conventional infantry battalions, deploying several times to Afghanistan and Iraq. Ed will use his fellowship year to study the classics of strategic thought and consider the perennial challenges of withdrawing from a theater of war.