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Steven J. Alvarez

Iraq, Media, US Army

Recent Books

Recent Books

Selling War

Selling War

Steven J. Alvarez
Steven J. Alvarez

Steven J. Alvarez retired as a major from the U.S. Army Reserve after serving twenty-four years in the officer and enlisted ranks, on active duty and in the National Guard and Reserve. A recipient of the Bronze Star and the Combat Action Badge, during his military career Alvarez served as the commander of an Army public affairs detachment as well as the public affairs officer for several general officers and presidential appointees, including David Petraeus. In the private sector Alvarez works as a freelance writer and public relations professional.

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Tom Basile

Middle East, Media Studies, Journalism

Recent Books

Recent Books

Tough Sell

Tough Sell

Tom Basile
Foreword by John R. Bolton
Tom Basile

Tom Basile is a Forbes opinion contributor, national political commentator, radio host, a faculty member of Fordham University, and principal of the New York–based strategic communications firm Empire Solutions. He has served in government at the local, state, and federal levels. Basile is a former Bush administration appointee and served as senior press advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad from 2003 to 2004, for which he received the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Medal.

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Soner Cagaptay

Turkey, Middle East, Politics, Foreign Relations

Recent Books

Recent Books

The Rise of Turkey

The Rise of Turkey

Soner Cagaptay

Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. A historian by training, Dr. Cagaptay has written extensively on U.S.-Turkey relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism. He has taught courses at Yale University, Princeton University, Georgetown University, and Smith College on the Middle East, Mediterranean, and Eastern Europe. From 2006 to 2007 he was Ertegun Professor at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies. Dr. Cagaptay’s work has been published regularly in scholarly journals and in major international print media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. He has been a regular columnist for CNN-GPS and Hürriyet Daily News, Turkey’s oldest and most influential English-language paper, and he appears frequently on radio and television in the United States and abroad.

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Louis A. Del Monte

Technology, Science, World and National Affairs

Recent Books

Recent Books

Nanoweapons

Nanoweapons

Louis A. Del Monte
Louis A. Del Monte

Louis A. Del Monte is an award-winning physicist and speaker and is the chief executive officer of Del Monte and Associates, Inc. During his thirty-year career as a physicist and business executive at IBM and Honeywell, he led the development of microelectronics and sensors and developed patents fundamental to the fabrication of integrated circuits. He is the author of The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence Serve Us or Replace Us? and How to Time Travel: Explore the Science, Paradoxes, and Evidence.

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Raul Gallegos

Venezuela, Oil, Global Finance, Latin America

Recent Books

Recent Books

Crude Nation

Crude Nation

Raúl Gallegos
Raul Gallegos

Raúl Gallegos, a senior analyst for the consulting firm Control Risks, has been a featured columnist for Bloomberg View, covering Latin American politics, business, and finance. He has been an oil correspondent with Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

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Lawrence J. Haas

Foreign Relations, Foreign Policy, Presidential Politics

Recent Books

Recent Books

Warrior Diplomat

Warrior Diplomat

Michael G. Waltz
Foreword by Peter Bergen
Lawrence J. Haas

Lawrence J. Haas is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and former communications director for Vice President Al Gore. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and many other outlets. He has published several books, including Sound the Trumpet: The United States and Human Rights Promotion.

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Michael G. Waltz

Afghanistan, DC politics, Pentagon, Special Forces, Green Berets, Middle East, Counterterrorism

Recent Books

Recent Books

Warrior Diplomat

Warrior Diplomat

Michael G. Waltz
Foreword by Peter Bergen
Michael G. Waltz

Michael G. Waltz is a lieutenant colonel in the Special Forces (reserve component), president of Metis Solutions, and senior national security fellow at the New America Foundation. Formerly, he was commander of a Special Forces company, counterterrorism advisor to the vice president, and director for Afghanistan policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense–Policy.

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