Colonel Gregory M. Tomlin

Colonel Greg Tomlin became the Army Capability Manager for Division Artillery Formations in July 2024. Previously he served as Chief of Army Readiness, Army Staff G-3/5/7 at the Pentagon. A career Field Artillery officer, Colonel Tomlin served in the 1st Armor, 1st Infantry, 2nd Infantry, and 7th Infantry Divisions, commanding a M109A6 battery in the Republic of Korea and M777 battalions at Fort Bliss, Texas and Fort Lewis, Washington. While deployed he served as a rifle platoon leader in Baquaba, Iraq, military advisor to the Diyala Provincial Joint Coordination Center, and task force Information Operations officer in Kosovo. Staff assignments include Chief of Targeting Doctrine and Policy, Joint Staff J-2; Threat Integration Staff Officer, Army Staff G-2; and strategic planner, 8th Army G-5. He served as a White House Military Social Aide during the Obama administration and taught American and Cold War history as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York.

A 2001 distinguished military graduate from the College of William and Mary in Virginia, Colonel Tomlin holds a MA, MPhil, and PhD from the George Washington University as well as a MS in National Resource Strategy (concentration in Global Supply Chains and Logistics) from the Eisenhower School at National Defense University. A public diplomacy expert, he has spoken at the Department of State, think tanks, universities, and international conferences. An award-winning author, he wrote Murrow’s Cold War: Public Diplomacy for the Kennedy Administration, coauthored The Gods of Diyala: Transfer of Command in Iraq, and numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.