Roger Thompson

Email: roger.thompson@dal.ca                                             
Address: Centre for the Study of Security and Development 
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
B3H 4H6
Canada

Roger Thompson is a Research Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Security and Development at Dalhousie University. His main specialty is the U.S. Navy, and his Dalhousie MA thesis, Brown Shoes, Black Shoes, And Felt Slippers: Parochialism and the Evolution of the Post-War U.S. Navy, was published by the U.S. Naval War College. This monograph eventually became required reading for students in a graduate-level course at MIT in 2005.

Additionally, he has published in many journals including The Defense Monitor, CounterPunch, RealClearDefense, The National Interest, WorldNetDaily, FORUM, Defence Associations National Network News, Canada’s Navy Annual, Airforce, Esprit de Corps, and Canadian Defence Review. His most successful work to date has been “Facing the hard facts about the ‘world class’ US Navy” which appeared in Responsible Statecraft in September 2022, and generated a record-breaking 125,000+ views, giving the journal its greatest exposure ever.

From 2006 to 2024, he was a faculty member at Kyung Hee University in South Korea, teaching a variety of courses, including civic education, and that groundbreaking class focused on the patriotic ideals of President John F. Kennedy and the civil rights activism of Atticus Finch. In August 2025, he successfully completed an intensive online civics course offered by Harvard University, and is now certified by that institution. Since then he has gone on to earn a certification from Stanford for a course called The Threat of Nuclear Terrorism, as well as others from Yale, Cornell, Penn and Johns Hopkins.

He is now back in Canada and working as an online academic tutor.

Thompson can be contacted at rogerthompson.ma@outlook.com.