Mr. Liam Walsh

ABOUT THE AUTHOR LIAM WALSH is currently a student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leaven-worth, KS. He was commissioned as an infantry officer after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 2006. His first assignment was at Fort Campbell, KY, from where he deployed as a platoon leader to north-west Baghdad for 14 months in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM during the "surge." After comple-tion of the Maneuver Captains Career Course in 2010, he was assigned to...See more

ABOUT THE AUTHOR LIAM WALSH is currently a student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leaven-worth, KS. He was commissioned as an infantry officer after graduating from the U.S. Military Academy in 2006. His first assignment was at Fort Campbell, KY, from where he deployed as a platoon leader to north-west Baghdad for 14 months in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM during the "surge." After comple-tion of the Maneuver Captains Career Course in 2010, he was assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA, where he twice deployed in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM to southern Afghanistan; in 2010 as an assistant operations officer and in 2012 as both a Stryker rifle company headquarters and headquarters company commander. From 2013 to 2015, Captain Walsh attended graduate school at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He holds a bachelor's degree in military history from West Point and a master's degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School. See less