In 2000 Dr. Robert Scales was appointed president and CEO of Walden University after serving over thirty years in the army, retiring as a Major General. He commanded two units in Vietnam, winning the Silver Star for action during the battles around Dong Ap Bia during the summer of 1969. Subsequently, he served in command and staff positions in the United States, Germany, and Korea, and ended his military career as Commandant of the United States Army War College. He has written and lectured on future warfare to academic, government, military, and business groups in the United States, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and South America. He is the author of several books including Certain Victory, the official account of the army in the Gulf War; Firepower in Limited War, a history of the evolution of firepower doctrine since the end of the Korean War; and Future Warfare, a strategic anthology on America's wars to come. He has appeared on many major media networks as an authority on military history and contemporary warfare.
