Faculty

Mr. George Greenleaf is a senior director for Cubic Applications, Inc. supporting the United States Naval War College War Gaming Department in Newport, Rhode Island. Mr. Greenleaf is a leading authority in matters related to maritime homeland security, homeland defense, and foreign/domestic support to civil authorities. Prior to his position at the Naval War College, he completed 30 years of active and reserve duty in the United States Navy as a Naval Aviator. Mr. Greenleaf’s key staff assignments included the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff J-3, US Pacific Command Headquarters, US Pacific Fleet Headquarters, and the Chief of Naval Operations. 

At the Navy War College, Mr. Greenleaf is a designer and facilitator for war games related to maritime homeland security and homeland defense including maritime threat response operations (MOTR), maritime interdiction operations (E-MIO/MCPI), and FCM/HA/DR consequence management operations. The war games support a wide range of commands, agencies and staffs to include the DoD, DoJ, DoS, DHS, JCS, and CNO. He also supports the NPS’s Center for Homeland Security and frequently facilitates theater and fleet level senior leader war games and seminars.

Mr. Greenleaf’s significant military experience also includes tours of duty with the Multi-National Peacekeeping Force in Beirut in 1982-1984, evacuation of US citizens and foreign nationals from Beirut in 1983, and air operations in support of Special Forces during Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada in 1983. He has an undergraduate degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Maine Orono.