Joseph Allena

About

Joseph Allena, representing the US Marine Corps, is a national security affairs fellow for the academic year 2014-15 at the Hoover Institution.

Lieutenant Colonel Allena is a field artillery officer and a 1991 graduate of Texas A&M University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in political science. He holds master’s degrees in military studies and in operational studies from Marine Corps University and the Marine Corps’ School of Advanced Warfighting in Quantico, Virginia. Allena has served in a variety of operational billets in the Marine Corps, with assignments and deployments to the western Pacific, Mediterranean, and the Central Command area of responsibility. He deployed to Afghanistan with the 1st Marine Division as the Division’s deputy operations officer, and again as an artillery battalion commander. He also served as the future operations officer for Marine Forces Central Command and as the future operations plans branch chief for U.S. Forces Korea. Most recently, he commanded the Marine Corps’ Wounded Warrior Battalion-West at Camp Pendleton, California.