Bruce Newsome, Ph.D., is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of California, Berkeley, where he leads courses on Security and Risk Management, Intelligence and Counterintelligence, and Counter-Terrorism and Counter–Insurgency. He started his career as a defense and security consultant at the RAND Corporation. Dr. Newsome is the author of “Made, Not Born: Why Some Soldiers are Better than Others” (Praeger, 2007) and "A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management" (Sage, 2013).