Jan van Tol
Senior Fellow
Areas of Expertise
Long-Range Strategic Planning, Naval Warfare, Military Innovation, Wargaming
Biography
Jan M. van Tol is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
Prior to his retirement from the Navy in 2007, Captain van Tol served as special adviser in the Office of the Vice President. He was a military assistant to Andrew W. Marshall, the Secretary of Defense’s Principal Advisor for Net Assessment, from 1993-96 and again from 2001-2003. At sea, he commanded three warships, two of which, the USS O’Brien (DD-975) and the USS Essex (LHD-2), were part of the U.S. Navy's Forward Deployed Naval Forces based in Japan.
Captain van Tol’s analytic work has focused mainly on long-range strategic planning, military innovation, and wargaming.
He holds degrees in Philosophy and Logic from the University of Massachusetts and in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School, and graduated with distinction from the Naval War College.
Author Bibliography for Jan van Tol
AirSea Battle: A Point-of-Departure Operational Concept
May 18, 2010 • By Jan van Tol, Mark Gunzinger, Andrew F. Krepinevich, and Jim Thomas • Studies
Emerging operational challenges in the Western Pacific require development of a new, integrated concept of operations for U.S. air and sea forces akin to the AirLand Battle of the 1980s
A Cooperative Strategy for the 21st Century Seapower: An Assessment
March 26, 2008 • By Jan van Tol and Robert Work • Briefs
Since the end of the Cold War, the US Navy, US Marine Corps, and US Coast Guard have been in search of a new maritime strategy—a new naval Holy Grail….