Dr. J. Holmes Armstead is a retired professor of Strategy and International law from the US Naval War College. He has taught international law, strategy and national security policy for nearly 40 years.

Professor Armstead has served on faculties at Stanford University, Pepperdine University, the University of California, The University of Nevada, Southern University the US Naval Postgraduate School, Lewis University, the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University.

He has also lectured at the British Joint Services Staff College and taught as a visiting professor at the Universite d’Pau in France and as an exchange professor at Richmond College in the University of London.

He has lectured at senior staff colleges in Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Malawi as well as the US Army War College, at the United States Military Academy and the South African Military Academy.

Counsel to the American Bar Association Office of Human Rights, Dr. Armstead lectures on International law at the Austrian Academy of Higher Military Studies in Vienna.