Pat Proctor
{{short description|American politician}}
{{missing information|basic info about his political career|date=February 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Pat Proctor
|image = Pat Proctor at COB Speicher in 2010.jpg
|caption = Colonel Pat Proctor at COB Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq in 2010
|state_house = Kansas
|district = 41st
|term_start = January 11, 2021
|term_end =
|preceded = Jeff Pittman
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|party = Republican
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|spouse = Aree
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|allegiance = {{flag|United States}}
|branch = {{flag|United States Army}}
|battles = Iraq War, Afghan War
}}
Pat Proctor is a Kansas State Representative, representing the 41st House District (Fort Leavenworth and Leavenworth, Kansas). He was first elected in November 2020.{{cite web|title=Pat Proctor|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Pat_Proctor}} In April 2025, he announced his candidacy to serve as Kansas Secretary of State.{{cite web|title=Pat Proctor|url=http://patproctor4ks.com}}
Pat Proctor is also a retired United States Army colonel. Upon retirement from the Army he settled in Leavenworth, Kansas.[http://fbmonitor.com/2013/03/06/gunners-change-command/ Unknown]{{Dead link | date=April 2025 | fix-attempted=yes}} Proctor is a graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies.{{Cite web|url=http://www.prosimco.com/writing/|title = Pat Proctor, Author}} Proctor most recently deployed to Jordan as a battalion commander. In 2009, he deployed as the operations officer for Task Force Patriot (2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery) to Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, Iraq. In 2007, Proctor worked as part of the Joint Strategic Assessment Team,[http://www.prosimco.com/writing/images/Media%20War%20Proposal.pdf Unknown]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} a team of diplomats, military theorists, and intellectuals assembled by Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and led by Col. H.R. McMaster to develop the strategy for post-surge Iraq.Bob Woodward, The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, 335-337
Proctor is an assistant professor of homeland security at Wichita State University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_college_of_liberal_arts_and_sciences/criminaljustice/facultynew.php|title = People}}
Writings
Since 2008, Proctor has been an active freelance writer. He has been published in the US Army War College journal, Parameters,{{cite web | url=http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/Parameters/08spring/proctor.htm | title=USAWC Redirect }}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} and online at [http://www.strategypage.com StrategyPage.com] and [http://www.armchairgeneral.com Armchair General].{{Cite web|url=http://www.armchairgeneral.com/the-other-napoleonic-wars.htm|title = The Other Napoleonic Wars | Armchair General Magazine - We Put YOU in Command!}} He just completed work on his fourth book, Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever-Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book will be published by the University of Missouri Press in February 2020.{{cite web | url=http://www.prosimco.com/writing | title=Pat Proctor, Author }}
- {{cite journal |first=Pat |last=Proctor |title=The Mythical Shia Crescent |journal=Parameters |date=Spring 2008 |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=30–42 |url=http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/Articles/08spring/proctor.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607224555/http://www.carlisle.army.mil/USAWC/Parameters/Articles/08spring/proctor.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2010}}
- {{cite journal |first=Pat |last=Proctor |title=Decision at Talil Airbase |journal=Armchair General |date=November 2009 |url=http://www.armchairgeneral.com/marchtobaghdad}}
- Proctor, Pat (with Carolyn Wheater and Jane R. Burstein), [https://www.amazon.com/CliffsNotes-ASVAB-AFQT-Cram-Cliffsnotes/dp/0470598891/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1293308807&sr=8-1 ASVAB AFQT Cram Plan], (New York: Cliffs Notes, 2010), {{ISBN|978-0-470-59889-4}}.
- Proctor, Pat, [http://www.prosimco.com/writing/books.htm#media_war Media War: The Media-Enabled Insurgency in Iraq], (Manhattan, KS: ProSIM, 2010), {{ISBN|978-0-615-43267-0}}.{{Cite web|url=http://www.prosimco.com/writing/books.htm|title = Books & Products}}
- {{cite journal |first=Pat |last=Proctor |title=Message vs. Perception during the 'Americanization' of the Vietnam War |journal=The Historian |date=Spring 2011 |volume=73 |issue=5 |doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2010.00287.x |s2cid=145247884 |url=http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0018-2370}}
- {{cite journal |first=Pat |last=Proctor |title=Fighting to Understand |journal=Military Review |date=March–April 2011 |volume=40 |issue=7 |url=http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/repository/MREditions2010-English.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608015856/http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/MilitaryReview/repository/MREditions2010-English.xml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 8, 2010}}
- {{cite journal |first1=Pat |last1=Proctor |first2=Dave |last2=Oakley |title=Ten Years of GWOT, the Failure of Democratization and the Fallacy of "Ungoverned Spaces" |journal=Journal of Strategic Security |date=Spring 2012 |volume=5 |issue=1 |url=http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol5/iss1/5}}
- {{cite journal |first=Pat |last=Proctor |title=War without Violence: Leveraging the Arab Spring to Win the War on Terrorism |journal=Journal of Strategic Security |date=Summer 2012 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=47–64 |doi=10.5038/1944-0472.5.2.3 |url=http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol5/iss2/8/|doi-access=free }}
- Proctor, Pat, [https://www.amazon.com/Task-Force-Patriot-Combat-Operations/dp/1605907774/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335938858&sr=8-1 Task Force Patriot and the End of Combat Operations in Iraq], (Lanham, MD: Government Institutes, 2012), {{ISBN|978-1-60590-777-2}}.
- Proctor, Pat, [https://www.amazon.com/Containment-Credibility-Ideology-Deception-Plunged/dp/163144056X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449539548&sr=8-1&keywords=containment+and+credibility Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War], (New York: Carrel Books, 2016), {{ISBN|978-1631440564}}.
- {{cite journal |first=Pat |last=Proctor |title=Lessons Unlearned: Army Transformation and Low-Intensity Conflict |journal=Parameters |date=Winter 2017–18 |volume=47 |issue=4 |pages=33–45 |url=https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/issues/Winter_2017-18/6_Proctor.pdf}}
- Proctor, Pat, [https://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Unlearned-Creating-Afghanistan-Experience/dp/0826221947/ Lessons Unlearned: The U.S. Army's Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq], (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri, 2020), {{ISBN|978-0826221940}}.
Proctor also maintains a blog, [http://mediawarfare.blogspot.com Media Warfare], which covers various topics and includes discussion of wargames, book reviews, and commentary on current events.
Wargame developer
Proctor is also a wargame developer and founder of [http://www.prosimco.com ProSIM Company]. This company develops computer wargames that are published by Shrapnel Games (an internet wargame distributor). ProSIM is known for its simulations of modern warfare, including such titles as BCT Commander, Armored Task Force, and Air Assault Task Force.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gamespot.com/pages/company/index.php?company=69679 |title=Gamespot Company Page for ProSim - Games by ProSim - ProSim Company Information |access-date=2011-06-12 |archive-date=2012-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109064025/http://www.gamespot.com/pages/company/index.php?company=69679 |url-status=dead }} ProSIM has also worked with military contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin to produce ground combat simulations.{{Cite web | title=COMBATSIM.COM: Leading Aerospace Company Boeing To Use Air Assault Task Force! | url=http://www.combatsim.com/story.php?id=7052 | access-date=2025-04-06 | website=www.combatsim.com}}
Notes
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External links
- [http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ Shrapnel Games, Inc]
- [http://www.prosimco.com/ ProSIM Company, Inc]
- [http://www.prosimco.com/writing http://www.prosimco.com/writing]
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