COL Bryan R. Gibby, Ph.D.

COL Bryan R. Gibby is an associate profession, deputy department head, and course director in the Department of History & War Studies (HWS) at the United States Military Academy (USMA).

The Thousand Oaks, California, native graduated from USMA in 1993. His first assignment was with 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division as an assistant s2 and infantry platoon leader. He commanded C Company, 524th Military Intelligence Battalion in Korea, where he also served as brigade adjutant and assistant battalion S3 for plans and exercises. He then attended graduate school at Ohio State University, earning a master's degree and doctorate in history, and returned to West Point to teach in the military division of the former Department of History, now Department of History and War Studies (2002-05). 

Following this assignment, Gibby deployed to Baghdad, Iraq in 2006 with the Fires Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, and again in 2008-09 with 3rd HBCT, 4th Infantry Division. During both deployments, he was the brigade s2 and successfully pioneered intelligence techniques for precision targeting, air-ground coordination, and predictive analysis. From 2009-12, Gibby served in the United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) Joint Force Command (Madrid) as the senior intelligence officer for the Joint Logistics Support Group. In 2011, he led the combined staff’s intelligence assessments team in Naples, Italy, in support of Operation Unified Protector (Libya). 

Gibby commanded the 707th Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort Gordon, Georgia, from 2012-14 and then served as the deputy director of the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Operation Enduring Freedom Study Group, documenting the Army’s history and involvement in Afghanistan from 2001-14. 

In 2016, he returned to West Point as chief of HWS military division. Since 2019, he has served as deputy head of the department.