Commander Post is a military professor at the U.S. Naval War College in the strategy and policy department. He received a B.S. in mathematics from the U. S. Naval Academy (with honors), an M.A. in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College, and an M.A. in political science from Brown University, where he is completing a Ph.D. in international relations, focused on nuclear deterrence, escalation dynamics, limited nuclear war, and conflict termination.