Career
From 2007-2010 he was director of studies for the program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. His expertise is in the fields of terrorism and counterterrorism, insurgency and revolutionary warfare, counter-insurgency, and international relations. Starting in 2003, Doctor Harmon lectured extensively on "how terrorist groups end," as at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (20 March 2006).
He inaugurated the Kim T. Adamson Chair in Insurgency and Terrorism at the Marine Corps University,was for four years Horner Chair of Military Theory, and served for twelve years at Quantico as a full professor teaching subjects such as international relations, the theory and nature of war and strategy and policy.
He was an adjunct professor at The Institute of World Politics, a graduate school of national security and international affairs, in Washington, District of Columbia