Background on James Arnold Miller, Ph.D.

Education

• B.A., International Relations, UCLA, 1966—specializing in Latin American international relations.
• Master of International Service, American University , Washington , D.C., 1967—with the major course of study being the Program in Intelligence Research and Analysis, and with a focus on Latin American international relations.
• Ph.D., International Relations, American University , Washington , D.C., 1976—focusing on national security, political violence, and Latin American international relations. His 493-page August 1976 doctoral dissertation, entitled “Political Violence Movements: An Interrogative, Integrative Systems Approach,” presents a methodology for analyzing conflicts involving terrorist, insurgent, and other political violence movements.

• Dr. Miller was a criminal investigations and counterintelligence officer in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) from 1967 to 1975. While in AFOSI he served successively as commander of four AFOSI detachments (including three in Vietnam ).
• While an AFOSI intelligence analyst he completed studies on insurgency in Thailand ; Chinese subversion in Southeast Asia ; international narcotics trafficking; and the vulnerabilities of U.S. Air Force nuclear weapons to terrorist attack.
• In 1975-1977 he served at the Pentagon in Air Force personnel policy and public affairs staff positions.
• And in 1977-1979, while he was Special Assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff Representative to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Captain Miller completed a comprehensive study on Soviet and Communist negotiating style.

President, Interaction Systems Incorporated

• Since 1979 Dr. Miller has been president of and has primarily worked under the auspices of his research and consulting firm, Interaction Systems Incorporated (ISI)—based near Washington, D.C., until early 2008 when he and his wife moved with the firm to Indianapolis, Indiana.
• Dr. Miller has been the main or a major organizer of more than twenty conferences, including nine international conferences, and has prepared the official proceedings on most of these conferences. Topics covered have included minerals availability, Soviet global strategy, energy security, space policy, climate change, environmental policy, environmental technology, sustainable development, intelligence, Latin American security issues, national security law, U.S.-Russia relations, homeland security, and the global war on terrorism.
• From 1980-1986 he served as a consultant to the U.S. Global Strategy Council, Washington , D.C. , and in 1986-1987 he served as its executive director.
• From 1981-1987 Dr. Miller wrote and published 195 issues of ISI's international subscription newsletter, the Alert Letter on the Availability of Raw Materials (ALARM). Topics covered included minerals and materials, energy, environment, technology, trade, competitiveness, Soviet global strategy, insurgencies, and foreign policy.
• He obtained and managed ISI's contract in 1984-1986 with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) under which five conferences (three in Tokyo , Japan , and one each in Rome , Italy , and Kiel , West Germany ) were organized and conducted on Soviet global strategy. He served as lead editor of the 993-page report to OSD much of which was ultimately commercially published in two volumes.
• He assisted the White House's National Security Council staff to prepare the first two editions (1987 and 1988) of the congressionally-mandated presidential National Security Strategy Report.
• He served in 1991-1992 as staff director of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security which focuses on such issues as national security law, intelligence, counterterrorism, information security, and law enforcement.
• Since 1999 Dr. Miller and his ISI team, under contract to the U.S. Government, have published more than seven hundred unclassified (or “open source”) global threats reports—still active are Terrorism Open Source Intelligence Report (TOSIR); Terrorism Literature Report (TLR); and Insurgency Literature Review (ILR); and previously published were Warning Intelligence on the Internet Review (WIIR); Regional and Country Watch List (RCWL); and Strategic Warning Issues Review (SWIR).