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Dr. Bruce Gudmundsson

Lecturer and Associate Director for National Security Studies
Politics Department
The Wilson Center
Phone: (434) 223-7267 Email: bgudmundsson@hsc.edu


Bruce I. Gudmundsson uses decision-forcing cases to foster such virtues as decisiveness, critical thinking, and empathy.  Over the course of the past sixteen years, he has conducted such exercises at the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, the Yale Alumni College, the Marine Corps University, the Army War College, and Dickinson College, as well as at workshops for several private companies as well as the armed forces of Georgia, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine.  In addition to this, Dr. Gudmundsson has lectured at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and served as a tutor at Oxford University.) A veteran of both the United States Marine Corps and the Icelandic Coast Guard, Gudmundsson has devoted a great deal of time to the study of military history.  The fruits of this effort include four monographs, two short books, and more articles than he cares to count.  He holds a BA, in modern history, from Yale College and a DPhil, also in modern history, from Oxford University.