Colonel Alicia Masson, USA, joined the National War College as military faculty in June 2023 following a tour as the Executive Officer, to the Army Staff, in support of the Chief of Staff of the Army. Commissioned through ROTC from the University of Colorado in May 1999, she serves as both a career Chemical officer and strategist. COL Masson has commanded at the Battalion and Brigade levels and has completed 5 operational combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan (3), Kuwait, and Oman. COL Masson has served in key staff positions at the strategic level serving on the Joint Staff, J5, National Military Command Center, the Pentagon, the Army Staff, G-3/5/7, Operations and Plans Directorate Division, the US Army Nuclear Agency CWMD Division, and on the NATO staff as Special Assignment to CG, HQ Resolute Support, in assistance to the Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan.
COL Masson has master’s degrees from Baylor University, Public Policy (International Policy), and the Air War College (Grand Strategy Honors Program Graduate). She was a 2011 fellow in the National Defense University Program for Emerging Leaders. Later, as an Interagency Fellow, she co-led inaugural efforts to create Cooperative Threat Reduction programs between the US Defense Department and military agencies of Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia. She has functional expertise in Building Partner Capacity, US environmental policy related to defense, and the Department of Defense ammunition enterprise.
FUNCTIONAL EXPERTISE: Strategy, Cooperative Threat Reduction, Building Partner Capacity, WMD
REGIONAL EXPERTISE: Indo-Pacific (Thailand, Indonesia) Middle East (Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq)