Doug Livermore

Board Member

Doug Livermore is the Chief of the Irregular Warfare Division in the Office of the Under Secretary of War (Intelligence and Security). He previously served as the Director of Special Operations and Irregular Warfare for the Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy (Intelligence and Security. Additionally, he is a Special Forces officer in the North Carolina Army National Guard and currently the Deputy Commander of Special Operations Detachment – Joint Special Operations Command. 

Previously, Doug served as an irregular warfare and sensitive activities advisor to both the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict and the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. Multiple international affairs and security studies journals have distributed Doug’s works, including many publications in War on the Rocks, Small Wars Journal, and the Military Times. Doug is the National Vice President of the Special Operations Association of America and the Director for External Communications for the Special Forces Association. Finally, he is also on the Board of Directors for No One Left Behind, where he has been instrumental in the ongoing evacuation and resettlement of Afghan interpreters and their families. 

Doug earned his undergraduate degree in Military History at West Point, his graduate degree in International Security Affairs from Georgetown University, and completed the Army Command and General Staff Officer Course.