Michael Salomone

Dr. Michael D. Salomone joined the Sam Nunn School as Professor of International Affairs in 1989. At Georgia Tech, he developed and taught courses on great power relations, technology and military organization, simulation and war-gaming, and scenario writing and path gaming. He was educated at Lehigh University's Department of International Relations and earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. For over 30 years, Dr. Salomone studied the capabilities and vulnerabilities of military organizations, and he conducted numerous studies for the Office of Net Assessment/Office of the Secretary of Defense and other Department of Defense organizations. His research activities involved information flows and battlefield decision-making, command and control assessment for network-centric operations, and military transformation. He constructed an interactive computer simulation of the World War I German Schlieffen Plan and wrote on the reasons for its failure. Dr. Salomone wrote articles for Defense Acquisition Review, Orbis, Survival, Armed Forces and Society, and Defense and Security Analysis on various political/military subjects, and he was the co-author of The Reluctant Supplier: U.S. Decision Making for Arms Sales (1983), Technology Transfer and US Security Assistance (1987), and Managing Defense Transformation (2007), as well as the co-editor of Marketing Security Assistance: New Perspectives on Arms Sales (1987). He was a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a fellow of Sigma Xi (scientific research society) and the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society.

Dr. Salomone passed away in 2026. You can read the College’s full memorial article honoring his life and legacy.