Active Duty Director Profile

Robert Gleckler Active Duty Director

Olmsted Scholar Class '04

  • Rank:

    Colonel

  • Branch:

    Army

  • Status:

    Active

  • City of Study:

    Bochum

  • University:

    Ruhr University

  • Language School:

    University of the Ruhr

  • Language:

    German

  • Assignments:
  • 2021 - Present:

    Army Senior Plans Advisor, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense – Policy, Plans & Posture Directorate

  • 2018 - 2019:

    Assistant Professor for National Security & Economic Policy, Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

  • 2017 - 2018:

    Director of Operations, National War College, Ft Lesley J. McNair, Washington, DC

  • 2017 - 2019:

    Student, Army War College Distance Education Program (concurrently instructor at NDU)

  • 2014 - 2017:

    Strategist for the Under Secretary of the Army, Pentagon

  • 2011 - 2014:

    Chief, Plans, Policy, and Assessments Branch; Joint Operational War Plans Division (J5); Joint Staff, Pentagon

  • 2011 - 2011:

    Joint Task Force LNO to ISAF; deployed Afghanistan

  • 2007 - 2011:

    Army Strategist, Strategic Plans, Army Staff G-35, Pentagon

  • 2005 - 2007:

    Infantry Officer Assignments Branch, Human Resources Command, Alexandria, VA

  • 2003 - 2005:

    Olmsted Scholar Program – Bochum, Germany

  • 2000 - 2002:

    Assistant Battalion S-3, H & HQ Company, 3-502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Anti-Armor Company Commander, Company D, 3-502nd Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault); Fort Campbell, KY (deployed Iraq)

  • 2000 - 2000:

    Infantry Captain’s Career Course, Fort Benning, GA

  • 1997 - 2000:

    Platoon Leader / Company XO / Battalion S-4, Baumholder, Germany

  • Education:
  • 2019:

    MA, Army War College

  • 2005:

    MA,Ruhr University

  • 1996:

    BA,Towson University