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Personal History

• Married: Rebecca (Stewart). Children: Josiah

Occupation

• Legislator. Retired military colonel and combat veteran.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts, History
• Masters Strategic Intelligence
• Masters Airpower Theory
• Masters Military Operational Art and Science
• Masters Strategic Studies
• Ph.D. (Doctor of History)

Military Service

• 1986 – Commissioned as an officer in the United States Army
• 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (2ACR) on the Iron Curtain
• 2ACR for Operations Desert Shield/Storm in Iraq
• Assignments in Washington, DC
• 229th Military Intelligence Battalion
• 3rd Infantry Division (Rock of the Marne)
• US Army Europe
• NATO (Deployments to Afghanistan 2006, 2007, 2008)
• U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
• Professor Army War College (PAWC), Carlisle, Pennsylvania
• Retired as Colonel in the United States Army

Career

• Doug Mastriano is a combat veteran and the son of a career US Navy man. He retired from the U.S. Army in November 2018 after 30 years of active duty as a Colonel. Doug is an Eagle Scout and worked as a paperboy, janitor, security guard, short-order cook, pizza delivery person and dishwasher.
• Doug was commissioned in the U.S. Army in 1986 and served on the Iron Curtain with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in West Germany. While serving along the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, he witnessed the end of the Cold War and thereafter deployed to Iraq for Operation Desert Storm (1991) to liberate Kuwait. His regiment led the attack against Saddam’s elite Republican Guard forces. Doug went on to serve in Washington, DC, the 3rd Infantry Division and US Army Europe. After 9/11, Mastriano was the lead planner for the operation to invade Iraq via Turkey. He served four years with NATO and deployed three times to Afghanistan. Mastriano was the director of NATO’s Joint Intelligence Center in Afghanistan, leading 80 people from 18 nations. On his own initiative, Doug led seven relief operations to help Afghan orphans. He completed his career as a Professor of the U.S. Army War College (PAWC), Carlisle, PA, and taught Strategic Studies at the Master Degree level to the next generation of senior leaders.
• Doug is a Doctor of History (PhD) and has four master’s degrees: Strategy, Strategic Intelligence, Military Operations, and Airpower. He earned a BA from Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania and was the alumnus of the year in 2009.
• Published Books:
• - Douglas Mastriano, Thunder in the Argonne: A New History of America’s Greatest Battle, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2018).
• - Douglas Mastriano, Alvin York, (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014).
• Published Security Studies:
• - Project 1721: a Strategic Assessment of the Emerging Russian Approach, (Carlisle, PA, US Army War College; 2017).
• - Project 1704: Russian Landpower, (Carlisle, PA, US Army War College; 2015).