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The Strategy of Denial

Elbridge Colby led the drafting of the 2018 National Defense Strategy for the US. He is currently the Under Secretary of War for Policy in the US Department of War. This 2021 book (published by Yale University Press) provides insight into how Colby views strategy broadly, and US military strategy specifically. Colby is well read […]

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The Black Gold Spies

This is not an academic book, one of those random titles that gets mentioned and peaks curiosity. The author, Gilles Munier, has another book on Iraq and has multiple connections to the Middle East. He spent time in jail for being involved in violations on the sanctions on Iraq. An interesting character. This was published […]

Tags: #CIA #Espionage #Gilles Munier #Iran #Middle East #Spies

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About me

Logan Cochrane

Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.

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