About me
Commander Pournelle retired from the Navy after 26 years of service as a surface warfare officer, operations analyst, and joint operations planner. He served on cruisers, destroyers, amphibious ships, and an experimental high-speed vessel. He served on the Navy staff conducting modeling, simulation, and analysis where he was the founding manager of the Navy's World Class Modeling program. He served on the staff at the Secretary of Defense's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) doing joint mobility and maritime analysis. He served for five years in the Office of Net Assessment exploring the future security environment. He is a senior operations research analyst, net assessor, and wargame designer. He has a masters degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. He helped complete Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries: Mamelukes and is working on the sequel. He has written several military themed short stories including one in the RoboSoldiers: Thank You for Your Servos anthology.
