Don Bonsper is a senior lecturer at the Defense Resources Management Institute, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. He is a 1965 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He studied political science and languages as a Fulbright scholar in Costa Rica in 1966, and received a master's degree in operations research from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1970. Prior to his retirement from the Marine Corps on 1 September 1985, Professor Bonsper served in a variety of command and staff assignments including tours in Vietnam, Okinawa, Venezuela, and Panama. He held command positions at the platoon, company, and battalion levels, and completed the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in 1975. As an operations research analyst, Professor Bonsper served with the Marine Corps Development Center where he worked in the field of long-range planning. In 1985, he received two awards for professional writing for his series of combat memoirs which appeared in the Marine Corps Gazette. He joined the DRMI faculty in July, 1982 while on active duty. In addition to his teaching duties, Professor Bonsper is the international programs coordinator.