Biography
Dakota L. Wood is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
He is currently involved in studying the operational challenges of irregular warfare, complex contingencies under high-technology conditions, and proliferated nuclear environments.
Before his retirement from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2005, LtCol Wood served in a wide variety of operational and staff assignments, including the Corps’ Military Assistant to the Director of the Office of Net Assessment – Mr. Andrew Marshall; and, providing defense issues analysis support to the Commandant of the Marine Corps on assignment to the Strategic Initiatives Group. Operationally, LtCol Wood was recognized for logistical planning and execution contributions to several operations, to include Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Immediately following his retirement, he provided support to the Department of Homeland Security as Operations Officer for the National Biosurveillance Integration System.
Mr. Wood received a BS from the U.S. Naval Academy and holds an MA from the Naval War College, where he graduated with distinction, in addition to meritorious recognition from the Marine Corps’ School of Advanced Warfighting.
Author Bibliography for Dakota L. Wood
The Future of the MV-22 Osprey
June 23, 2009 • By Dakota L. Wood • Testimony
Mr. Chairman, Congressman Issa, and distinguished members of the Committee, it is my personal honor to appear before you today to discuss the MV-22 Osprey. I have been asked to…
The US Marine Corps: Fleet Marine Forces for the 21st Century
November 17, 2008 • By Dakota L. Wood • Studies
A Hybrid Service… During the 1920s and 1930s, even as it was engaged in a series of “small wars,” the Marine Corps dedicated itself to solving the “Gallipoli problem”: how…
Of IEDs and MRAPs: Force Protection in Complex Irregular Operations
October 17, 2007 • By Andrew F. Krepinevich and Dakota L. Wood • Studies
Simple solutions to complex problems are inherently attractive and almost always wrong. So it is with the Pentagon’s recent decision to enter into “crash” production of Mine Resistant Ambush Protected…