James Kiras

James D. Kiras is Dean and Professor at the School of Advanced Air & Space Studies (SAASS), the US Air Force's premier school of strategy. He is the author of Special Operations Success: Balancing Capabilities and Control (2025) and Special Operations Strategy: From World War II the War on Terrorism (2006), and co-editor of Into the Void: Special Operations Forces After the War on Terrorism (2024), Strategic Sabotage (2021), and Special Operations: Out of the Shadows (2020).