He was previously the associate dean of academics for electives and directed research and professor of strategy and force planning for the Naval War College in the U.S., as well as a contributing editor to National Review.
[1] He is a senior fellow at the Program on National Security of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and has edited its journal, Orbis, since 2008.
[2] Owens has previously served as a national security advisor to Senator Bob Kasten and in the Department of Energy under the Reagan administration.
From 1990 to 1997, Owens was editor-in-chief of the defense journal Strategic Review and an adjunct professor of international relations at what is now the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
[citation needed] Owens contends "that women in combat undermine unit cohesion and thereby generate Clausewitzian friction.