Gerard Lucius joined the DiplomaticService of the Netherlands in 1997 and civil-military interaction has been aconstant in his career. He was the Liaison Officer to the Netherlands Ministryof Defence during various operations in the Former Yugoslavia and a DevelopmentAdviser to the Commander of Task Force Uruzgan, the Dutch contribution to ISAF.As a consultant to the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) before theindepence of South Sudan, he coordinated donor support to the Joint IntegratedUnits of Sudanese Army and SPLM. He also worked as Political Secretary andEconomic Secretary in Zambia and Qatar, respectively. Since 2002, Gerard spendsa number of weeks annually as an active reserve officer in 1 (NL)Civil-Military Interaction Command, where he is a Senior Consultant in theCommand’s Political Network. Gerardwas Counselor and Deputy Head of Mission of his country's embassy in Baghdadfrom 2012-2014. He currently works on Antiterrorism and National Securityissues at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague. Dr. Sebastiaan Rietjens, an engineer by training, is an associate professor at the Netherlands Defense Academy, and a reserve major in the Netherlands army. He has done extensive fieldwork in military operations and has published accordingly in international journals and books. His main focus of interest is on civil-military interaction, effectiveness of military operations as well as logistics and information management. He co-edited volumes on civil-military cooperation (Ashgate, 2008) and research methods in studies (Routledge, forthcoming) and a special issue on defense logistics (International Journalof Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, 2013). Sebastiaan is a regular speaker at the Cimic Centre of Excellence and the NATO School and has given presentations at numerous institutions and (academic) conferences including the Australian Defence Forces Academy, the European Committee on Security and Development and the US Marine Corps University.
