Walter Feichtinger is Brigadier General at the Austrian Armed Forces and Director of Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management at the Austrian National Defence Academy. Besides his military career he studied political science and journalism at the University of Vienna and completed a PhD program. Walter Feichtinger is a Member of the Science Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Defense, of the Board of the European Forum Alpbach, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, as well as a founding member of the International Society of Military Sciences. He is an expert in Austrian, European and International security policy, in the analysis of armed conflicts and the strategic impacts and international crisis and conflict management.