User:Professor Mike

This is the user page of Professor Mike, a former graduate school professor in Washington, DC, who specializes in defense, security, and related issues.

I have affiliations with several organizations. In order to prevent perceptions of conflcts of interests, I would like to disclose to the Wikipedia community that I am previously related to the United States Army, the Institute of World Politics, and the Center for Security Policy. I maintain a relationship with Wikistrat. About 8 years ago, I began utilizing Wikipedia as a means of classroom education, to have my graduate students create and maintain Wikipedia subject pages for the whole world to see, instead of writing term papers that only I would see. That project worked well for the few years we tried it.

Presently I am resuming my own contributions to Wikipedia to add to the knowledge base and to make certain entries more encyclopedic than polemical. Some of these entries will concern organizations with which I am formerly affiliated.