Senior Lecturer

Defense Analysis

Phone: (360) 951-6799

Email: ian.rice@nps.edu

Ian Rice is a retired United States Army officer. He has primarily served with or in support of special operations forces during his career. He has been stationed overseas in Germany, Okinawa, and Korea as well he has deployed for 45 months between Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently, he led the United States Mission to Iraq’s Sunni trial engagement effort in Iraq during Operation Inherent Resolve in 2016-2017. From 2013 through 2018, he served as an active-duty faculty member in the Defense Analysis Department. He is a 2003 graduate of Defense Analysis and he is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at the University of California Los Angeles.

Ian's research interests include special operations, conflict-based state-building and the dynamics of combined operations namely security force assistance and military advising.

Helping Defense Analysis students achieve their academic, career, and life goals Ian teaches “Conflict in the Information Age,” “Psychological Operations and Deception,” “The History of Special Operations,” and “Military Organization and Technological Change,” and the "The Military Advisor."