Patrick Swan

Background

About Patrick Swan

Army-trained-and-certified historian and instructor, and book reviewer of military histories. Military Command Historian author and editor. Former Deputy Command Historian, U.S. Central Command, MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL. • Senior Communications Consultant. TS SCI security clearance. Engaged senior foreign defense officials to contribute informed articles that supported security cooperation, for quarterly magazine "per Concordiam" at George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch. The magazine counters violent extremist ideology and propaganda, while promoting stability, security, and support for US gov't global activities. • Program architect and leader with experience in the military, civilian, and private sectors. Proven effectiveness planning and managing public affairs and historical initiatives. Army War College-trained senior strategic leader. • Authored three annual command historical reports (2013, 2014, 2015) for US Central Command and two (2010 and 2011) for the Army Reserve Support Command in Birmingham, AL. • Over 35 years of professional public affairs experience, with a recent focus on managing and overseeing operational, historical, and knowledge management initiatives at military and federal government organizations. Conducted hundreds of news and oral history interviews with senior DoD leaders. • Extensively researched DoD-related archival records at the Army War College’s Military History Institute to write Army historical vignettes. • Edited and published a volume of 33 essays, Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers and the Schism in the American Soul (ISI Books 2003). • Director of News Operations for the Army News Service at the Pentagon.