Biography
Mike Young is a former Intelligence Officer with 32 years in the U.S. Army.
His tours of duty include the 8th Infantry Division, the 82nd Airborne Division, the 5th Special Forces Group, and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. He has taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy and is a published author. In 2022, the Air Force Technical Applications Center published his book Nuclear Vigilance: The Creation of the Atomic Energy Detection System and its Impact on Nuclear Arms Control Goals during the Eisenhower Administration. Young holds an MA in Military History from The Ohio State University, an MS in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. His Ph.D. dissertation, To Transform a Culture: The Rise and Fall of the US Army Organizational Effectiveness Program, 1970-1985, has been cited in several work study groups at the U.S. Army War College.
Areas of Expertise
Young’s interests lie in the history of U.S. Army leadership doctrine and Army organizational effectiveness (or lack thereof), as well as the Army’s inability to distinguish between leadership and management, and between education and training. In recent years, he has focused on the lack of a propensity to serve in the armed forces among the recent generations of youth. Having served as the Deputy Commander of the Joint Detention Operations Group at Guantanamo, Young has been especially critical of that mission from his time there in 2003 to the present.