Brigadier General Wendell Christopher King (Ret.) (1949) Dr. King holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and a Masters and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer and Life Diplomat of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He received an honorary Doctorate from Kansas State University for his lifetime of service to higher education.
After numerous environmental engineering assignments with the U.S. Army domestically and in Europe, he was deployed in 1991 as the Officer in Charge of the Southwest Asia Health Risk Assessment Team to determine health risks to US troops exposed to the smoke from the Kuwait oil fires and to support the war restoration of Kuwait. For this work he received the American Academy of Environmental Engineering Honor Award.
In 1994, Dr King was assigned to the Army Chief of Staff’s crisis action team for the Rwanda relief mission as the medical operations planner and assigned to the deploying headquarters for Operation Support Hope assisting in the humanitarian and relief work for the refugees in Rwanda and its neighbouring countries. In 1998, then Colonel King was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point NY. In 2005 he helped develop the new Afghanistan Military Army. As a specialist in hazardous waste management, he advises NATO on the clean-up of military hazardous wastes and the restoration of closed military facilities in East Europe. Dr King has authored numerous articles, reports and two books, the most recent being “Understanding International Security: A Strategic Military Perspective”.
Dr King retired in 2006 after 32 years of active service at the rank of Brigadier General, having received the Distinguished Service Medal as his highest military award.
From 2006 to 2016 Dr King served as Dean and Chief Academic Officer for the Unites States Army’s Command and General Staff College. The College has a 125-year tradition of educating military officers on national security and the art of war. Dr King directed a college faculty of over 400 people organised into five separate schools, all with the mission of developing army leaders for service to the nation. Officers from more than 125 nations have attended CGSC.
Publications:
"The IPCC: Forty Years of Great Science in Understanding Climate Change - GMACCC Paper No 3", Envrionment & Development Rescource Centre (EDRC), June 2026, 20 pp.
“Strategic Defense Impacts of Climate Change: An Interagency Challenge” In InterAgency Journal, Vol. 9 No. 4 – 2018, pp 14-25
https://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IAJ-9-4-2018-pg14-25.pdf
“Climate Change: Implications for Defense”, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership / Institute for Environmental Security / Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, Cambridge / The Hague, 16 pp, June 2014
https://www.gmaccc.org/gmaccc-publications/climate-change-implications-for-defence
“Understanding Environmental Security and Climate Change” , in InterAgency Essay (IAE) series published by the Command and General Staff College Foundation Press for the Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation, 16 pp, (23 January 2014)
https://thesimonscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/IAE-14-01W-JAN2014.pdf
“Understanding International Environmental Security: A Strategic Military Perspective”, Army Environmental Policy Institute, November 2000, 123 pp
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA593166.pdf
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