Dr. C. Dale Walton is Program Chair and Professor of International Relations at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, as well as a Senior Research Fellow with the John W. Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise.

He has also taught at the University of Reading in England and Missouri State University.

His research interests include strategic relationships and security problems in Asia, geopolitics and the changing geostrategic environment, and U.S. military strategic history. In addition to his three books, he has published more than 70 book chapters, articles and reviews.

Walton received his Ph.D. from the University of Hull, in England, where he was an H.B. Earhart Fellow; his M.S. from Missouri State University; and his B.A. (magna cum laude) from the University of New Mexico.