{{Short description|American political scientist (born 1945)}} {{for-multi|the American murderer|John Allen Muhammad|the American football player|John Williams (running back)}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = John Allen Williams | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1945}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (enter DEATH date then BIRTH date (e.g., ...|1967|8|31|1908|2|28}} use both this parameter and |birth_date to display the person's date of birth, date of death, and age at death) --> | death_place = | other_names = Jay Williams | spouse = Karen Kay Lauterbach | website = {{official URL}} | module = {{Infobox academic |child=yes | alma_mater = {{ubl | Grinnell College | University of Pennsylvania}} | thesis_title = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = Henry Teune | academic_advisors = Alvin Z. Rubinstein | influences = {{flatlist| * Morris Janowitz * Charles Moskos * Sam C. Sarkesian }} | discipline = Political science | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = Loyola University Chicago | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = | main_interests = {{hlist | Military issues | civil–military relations | national security strategy}} | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> }} | module2 = {{Infobox military person |embed=yes | branch = United States Navy | branch_label = Branch | service_years = 1969–1999 | rank = Captain | unit = | commands = | battles = | battles_label = | awards = }} | signature = | signature_alt = }} '''John Allen Williams''' (born 1945), also known as '''Jay Williams''', is a professor emeritus of political science at Loyola University Chicago and is the former chair and president of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society (2003–2013).<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-allen-williams-91bb373/ {{Self-published source|date=June 2022}}</ref><ref>http://www.iusafs.org/leadership/Officers.asp website accessed 9/12/11</ref> He serves on the editorial board of the National Strategy Forum in Chicago,<ref>http://nationalstrategy.com/About/EditorialBoard.aspx website accessed 9/12/11</ref> is editor of the ''National Strategy Forum Review'', and is on the board of directors for the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/about/mission-personnel/board-directors/john-allen-williams/ |title=John Allen Williams | Pritzker Military Museum & Library | Chicago |publisher=Pritzkermilitary.org |date= |access-date=2014-08-27}}</ref>
John Williams is a retired captain in the US Naval Reserve, where he served aboard the USS ''Columbus'' (CG-12) and at the US Naval Academy. As a strategic plans officer in the US Navy, he also served on active and reserve duty with the Chief of Naval Operations (Strategic Concepts Branch), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Strategy Branch), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (assistant principal deputy undersecretary for strategy and resources), the Naval War College, and the commander, Second Fleet.<ref>http://homepages.luc.edu/~jwillia/jwbio.html Website accessed 9/11/11</ref><ref>http://homepages.luc.edu/~jwillia/ website accessed 9/12/11</ref>
John Williams is notable for his contributions to the study of the military, civil–military relations, and national security strategy. He has published extensively on these topics, co-authoring works with other notable figures in civil–military relations such as Sam C. Sarkesian, Charles C. Moskos, David R. Segal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?293270-2/us-military-policy-families|title=U.S. Military Policy and Families | C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org}}</ref>
==Notable publications== *U.S. National Security: Policymakers, Processes, and Politics, 4th Edition (coauthor, with Sam C. Sarkesian and Stephen J. Cimbala), Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Press, 2008, {{ISBN|978-1588264169}}. *The Postmodern Military: Armed Forces After the Cold War (coeditor and contributor, with Charles C. Moskos and David R. Segal) (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000). *Soldiers, Society, and National Security (coauthor, with Sam C. Sarkesian and Fred B. Bryant) (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Press, 1995). *"The U.S. Military: Balancing Old and New Challenges," [http://nationalstrategy.com/ National Strategy Forum Review] (Winter, 2009), pp. 31–38. *"The Military and Society Beyond the Postmodern Era," [http://www.fpri.org/orbis/ Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs] 52, No. 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 199–216. *"Understanding Asymmetric Warfare: Threats and Responses," [http://nationalstrategy.com/ National Strategy Forum] Review (Summer 2007), pp. 23–26. *"The U.S. Naval Academy: Stewardship and Direction," [http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/archive U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings], 123, No. 5 (May 1997), pp. 67–72. *"The New Military Professionals," [http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/archive U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings], 122, No. 5 (May 1996), pp. 42–48. *"Civil-Military Relations and the American Way of War", in Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., Civil-Military Relations in Perspective: Strategy, Structure and Policy (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, forthcoming 2011). *"Civil-Military Relations in the Second Bush Administration," in Stephen J. Cimbala, ed., The George W. Bush Defense Program: Policy, Strategy, & War (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2010), pp. 101–111. *"Educating Military Officers for an Ambiguous Strategic Future," Testimony before the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, September 10, 2009. *"Anticipated and Unanticipated Consequences of the Creation of the All-Volunteer Force," in The U.S. Citizen-Soldier at War: A Retrospective Look and the Road Ahead (Chicago: McCormick Foundation, 2008). *"Political Science Perspectives on the Military and Civil-Military Relations," in Giuseppe Caforio, ed., Social Sciences and the Military: An Interdisciplinary Overview (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). *"Do Military Policies on Gender and Sexuality Undermine Combat Effectiveness?" (with Laura L. Miller), in Peter D. Feaver and Richard H. Kohn, eds., Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 361–402.
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