About
AT A GLANCE:
Director, Army University Press
BIOGRAPHY:
Colonel Todd A. Schmidt, Ph.D., currently serves as Director, Army University Press
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Military Review Journal
鈥� The Army鈥檚 Premiere Professional Journal for practitioners. He also serves as Executive
Producer of Army University Films, informing professional military education across
Army University and beyond. He serves as a non-resident fellow to the West Point/USMA,
Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic; non-resident fellow to the National
Institute for Deterrence Studies; and an AUSA Leadership Fellow.
Colonel Schmidt鈥檚 experience includes working at the highest levels of the Department
of Defense and with Combatant Commands. He served in the Immediate Office of the Secretary
of Defense coordinating with the White House and National Security Council. He served
on the Department of the Army Staff and in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the
Army working long-range budget strategy and enterprise business transformation initiatives.
He has significant experience drafting national policy and advising global missile
defense planning. He has worked closely with NATO, Middle East, and Indo-Pacific allies
and partners leading NIMBLE TITAN, the Department of Defense鈥檚 premier international
missile defense strategic policy wargame series.
Colonel Schmidt commanded at increasing levels of leadership, culminating in the command
of all U.S. Army air and missile defense units in Kuwait as a part of Operation SPARTAN
SHIELD. He has deployed multiple times throughout the United States Central Command
Area of Responsibility and is a recipient of the Defense Superior Service Medal, two
Bronze Star Medals, and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He has been inducted
into the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara and the Honorable Order of Saint Gabriel
the Archangel.
Colonel Schmidt is a member of the Cosmos Club, International Institute for Strategic
Studies and Chatham House in London, the Pacific Council on International Policy in
Los Angeles, the International Relations Council of Kansas City, and a former term-member
of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a life member of AUSA, the 82nd Airborne
Association, the 25th Infantry Division Association, the ADA Association, the VFW,
DAV, and the American Legion. He is active with the Command and General Staff College
Foundation and local Rotary.
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