James D. Fielder (Ph.D., Political Science, The University of Iowa) is a political science instructor at Colorado State University and retired from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also serving as a Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2023, is the Chief Operating Officer for Mobius Worlds Publishing, and consults on organizational wargaming, crisis response exercises, and scenario planning. Dr. Fielder researches interpersonal trust and emergent political processes through cyber-based interaction, and through tabletop and live-action gaming as natural experiments. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Simulation & Gaming has over two decades of experience designing, executing, and assessing training exercises and wargames, from small-group tabletop discussions to multi-day exercises engaging over 5,000 participants. During his military service, Dr. Fielder served as a Persian-Farsi linguist and electronic warfare specialist in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged at the rank of Sergeant. He was then commissioned through the U.S. Air Force’s Officer Training School and served as an intelligence officer and two academic tours at USAFA. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in 2014 for meritorious achievement in Afghanistan.