# Pat Proctor

Pat Proctor is a Kansas State Representative, representing the 41st House District (Fort Leavenworth and Leavenworth, Kansas). He was first elected in November 2020.
Pat Proctor is also a retired United States Army colonel. Upon retirement from the Army he settled in Leavenworth, Kansas. Proctor is a graduate of the School of Advanced Military Studies. 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, 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.
Proctor is an assistant professor of homeland security at Wichita State University.

## Writings

Since 2008, Proctor has been an active freelance writer. He has been published in the US Army War College journal, Parameters, and online at StrategyPage.com and Armchair General. 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.
* Proctor, Pat (Spring 2008). "The Mythical Shia Crescent" (PDF). Parameters. 38 (1): 30–42.
* Proctor, Pat (November 2009). "Decision at Talil Airbase". Armchair General.
* Proctor, Pat (with Carolyn Wheater and Jane R. Burstein), ASVAB AFQT Cram Plan, (New York: Cliffs Notes, 2010), ISBN 978-0-470-59889-4.
* Proctor, Pat, Media War: The Media-Enabled Insurgency in Iraq, (Manhattan, KS: ProSIM, 2010), ISBN 978-0-615-43267-0.
* Proctor, Pat (Spring 2011). "Message vs. Perception during the 'Americanization' of the Vietnam War". The Historian. 73 (5). doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2010.00287.x. S2CID 145247884.
* Proctor, Pat (March–April 2011). "Fighting to Understand". Military Review. 40 (7).
* Proctor, Pat; Oakley, Dave (Spring 2012). "Ten Years of GWOT, the Failure of Democratization and the Fallacy of "Ungoverned Spaces"". Journal of Strategic Security. 5 (1).
* Proctor, Pat (Summer 2012). "War without Violence: Leveraging the Arab Spring to Win the War on Terrorism". Journal of Strategic Security. 5 (2): 47–64. doi:10.5038/1944-0472.5.2.3.
* Proctor, Pat, Task Force Patriot and the End of Combat Operations in Iraq, (Lanham, MD: Government Institutes, 2012), ISBN 978-1-60590-777-2.
* Proctor, Pat, Containment and Credibility: The Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War, (New York: Carrel Books, 2016), ISBN 978-1631440564.
* Proctor, Pat (Winter 2017–18). "Lessons Unlearned: Army Transformation and Low-Intensity Conflict" (PDF). Parameters. 47 (4): 33–45.
* Proctor, Pat, 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, 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 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. ProSIM has also worked with military contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin to produce ground combat simulations.