Michael Keane is a Fellow of National Security at the Pacific Council on International Policy and an assistant professor at the University of Southern California where he teaches a popular class on strategy. He has served as a consultant for major corporations and government entities, including Citibank and the World Bank. In 1995, Michael Keane was selected to be a David L. Boren Fellow of the U.S. Department of Defense's National Security Education Program and spent a year in Vietnam researching guerrilla warfare.

In 1989 Michael Keane was one of the first Americans to enter Vietnam following the end of the conflict there and he accompanied Vietnamese troops into Cambodia where they were fighting the Khmer Rouge. In December 2003, Keane was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division in Iraq. In January of 2010 he was embedded at ISAF HQ in Kabul, Afghanistan. He has also participated in the U.S. Naval War College's annual Current Strategy Forum.

Michael Keane's commentaries on military strategy have been featured on CNN, National Public Radio, and in the Los Angeles Times. In 2003 following the United States invasion of Iraq, his commentaries correctly predicted that what at that time was perceived as a swift victory would quickly devolve into a difficult guerrilla conflict.

Michael Keane, who serves as the National Security Analyst for KNBC-TV in Los Angeles, is a popular speaker for conventions and corporate groups where he discusses inspirational examples of battlefield leadership. Keane is the author of the Dictionary of Modern Strategy and Tactics (2005, Naval Institute Press). His new book, The Good War, about the conflict in Afghanistan will be published in Fall 2011.

Michael Keane holds a JD from the University of Texas School of Law, an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a BA in Economics from the University of Southern California.

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