Press
Publications, Interviews, and Features
Press & Podcasts
“Top DHS official on how his background informs his mission: Dismantling drug cartels; John Tien said his credo is ‘duty, honor, country.’” / ABC News / May 2023
“John Tien discusses his experiences in the Interagency Security Committee at Ford School” / The Michigan Daily / March 2024
“Homeland Security deputy secretary retiring” / ABC News / June 2023
“Post-9/11 Veterans Are Helping Mend Our Social Fabric” / The Art of Association / November 2022
Podcast: “A First Generation American’s Obligation and Privilege to Serve” / Fourblock / January 2020
Podcast: “Veteran Voices: Profiles in Veteran Leadership” / Supply Chain Now / July 2021
Books & Writing
Bylines:
“How the West Was Won: Strategic Leadership in Tal Afar” - co-wrote chapter with Eric B. Rosenbach in Military Leadership In Pursuit of Excellence, edited by Robert Taylor (2019)
“DHS Remembers the One-Year Anniversary of the Atlanta Spa Shootings” at DHS.Gov (2022)
Featured in:
Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward (2011)
West Point Leadership – Profiles of Courage by Daniel Rice (2010)
Ordinary People: Extraordinary Heroes – Afghanistan and Iraq by Will Merrill (2017)
The Soul of a Deal: Making Deals in the Digital Age by Richard Wolpert (2018)
White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War by John Gans (2019)
Video
Guest Speaker at the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy (Marc 2024)
The Wilson Center: Keynote, Achieving Security in the Arctic: the Role of DHS and its Components (January 2023)
Keynote Speaker at The Eradicate Hate Global Summit (September 2022)
The Justice Department: 8 Indicted in JTFA Investigation & Arrested as Part of Takedown of Prolific Human Smuggling Network (September 2022)
ICE NEWS NOW: Actions announced against int'l diamond/art org for money laundering tied to Hizballah (April 2023)
George Gwinnett College: Speaker at Commencement (August 2018)