Dave McIntyre
Director
Integrative Center for Homeland Security
Texas A&M University
Phone: (979) 862-2432
E-mail: mcintyredh@tamu.edu

Dr. Dave McIntyre is the Director of the Integrative Center for Homeland Security at Texas A&M University. He teaches homeland security and terrorism at The Bush School for Government and Public Service at Texas A&M, where he also directs the recently approved Graduate Certificate in Homeland Security Program.

A nationally recognized analyst, writer, and teacher, specializing in national and homeland security, Dr. McIntyre is a 30 year Army veteran, who has been designing and teaching national and homeland security strategy at senior levels of government for 18 years. His specialty is security analysis and teaching thru experiential learning.

Audiences for his classes, exercises, and analyses include:

• LBJ School, University of Texas
• Maxwell School of National Security Studies, Syracuse University
• Homeland Security Education Conference, US Northern Command.
• Intersessional Conference on Strategy and Intelligence, Naval War College
• Northeast US Army Medical Conference, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA
• Subcommittee on National Strategy and Terrorism, US House of Representatives
• Elliott School of International Relations, George Washington University

Past projects include:
• McGraw-Hill Conference on Homeland Security, Washington, DC.
• EPA Tri-Regional Homeland Security Exercise, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• Crisis Decision Institute Exercise, Portland, Oregon.
• Study on Defense Reform, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC.
• Summer Study of Homeland Security, 2003 Defense Science Board, Washington, DC.
• Roundtable on Homeland Security, Center for the Study of the Presidency, Washington, DC.

Between 2001 and 2003, Dr. McIntyre served as Deputy Director of the ANSER Institute for Homeland Security, the nation’s only not-for-profit think tank focused solely on homeland security. In that capacity he contributed to dozens of conferences and exercises for audiences ranging from the leadership of the Department of Agriculture, to congressional staff members, to members of Washington DC universities and think tanks, to international visitors sponsored by the Department of State. His special focus was the evolving logic, structure and business of homeland security.

In 2001 Dr. McIntyre retired from the U.S. military as the Dean of Faculty at the National War College. During his eight years there, he taught strategy, operations, and interagency coordination, leading seminars through individual analysis, group exercises, and experiential learning. While there, he supervised a 25% increase in faculty, initiated a faculty development program, and conceived and directed a college wide strategy exercise linking 200 players through laptop computers.

Dr. McIntyre’s approach to strategic problem solving is built on six years of practical experience writing for four-star military leaders, including the Army Chief of Staff, and the Commander of all US forces in the Asia-Pacific region. He led or participated in delegations to more than two dozen countries. He also taught English at West Point for three years. He was airborne, ranger, and jumpmaster qualified, and served in airborne and reconnaissance units.

Dr. McIntyre’s easy but direct manner as a teacher and facilitator have attracted many media outlets. His work includes scores of national appearances on FOX, CNBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN’s Crossfire, CSPAN, The History Channel, Voice of America, and the US State Department’s "Dialogue" series. Internationally, he has been on Australian, British, Canadian, Egyptian, French and German television. He also participated in many national and international radio programs, appearing with Bill Press, Oliver North, Janet Parshall, and Armstrong Williams in the US, Roy Green in Canada, and the BBC worldwide. In Washington, DC, he contributed to WMAL, WTOP, and NPR radio, and appeared more than 80 times on WUSA-TV. During the Iraq War, he was the military commentator for the Voice of America’s News Line television program, broadcast to American embassies world wide.

Dr. McIntyre holds a BS in Engineering from West Point, an MA in English and American Literature from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of the US Army War College and the National War College.