Phil Anderson

Phil Anderson is a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program, specializing in homeland security issues. Previously, he was the director of defense and aerospace content for Intellibridge Corporation, a provider of customized, Internet-based intelligence and advisory solutions. Anderson served as a Marine Corps officer for 23 years, and his military experience includes leadership of operational organizations from platoon through battalion with deployments worldwide. Anderson served as principal operations adviser to the Commander U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Atlantic, where he conducted research and on-site analyses resulting in a successful antiterrorism/force-protection plan for U.S. forces assigned to Haiti. He also conducted analyses and developed an operational scheme and cost estimates for potential maritime prepositioned force and amphibious operations in Bosnia, and chaired a planning group conducting research with the Center for Naval Analysis, which produced a completely revised predeployment training plan for operational naval forces. Anderson earned a B.S. in sociology from Suffolk University in 1977, an M.S. in education from George Mason University in 1988, a Ph.D. in education from George Mason University in 1994, and an M.A. in international relations from the Bundeswehr University in 1996. Anderson has authored numerous journal articles, most recently on the war on terrorism and the ground war in Afghanistan. He is fluent in German.