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Senior Lecturer and Former Chair of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, 2009–present
Sepp served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Counterterrorism and as an expert member for the Baker-Hamilton Bipartisan Commission on Iraq. A US Army Special Forces officer, he earned the Combat Infantryman Badge in the Salvadoran Civil War. Other unit assignments include the 82nd Airborne Division, 2nd Ranger Battalion, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Germany, and 2nd Infantry Division in Korea, among others.
An assistant professor of history at the US Military Academy at West Point and resident scholar at Harvard University, Sepp earned a PhD from Harvard University and a master in military art and science from the US Army Command and General Staff College.
His publications include: “Best Practices in Counterinsurgency,” Military Review (May–June 2005), reprinted in Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese; Weapon of Choice: U.S. Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, with R. Kiper, J. Schroder, and C. Briscoe (2003); chapters in Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure (2015); Leadership: The Warrior’s Art (2001); and War in Iraq: Planning and Execution (2007), among others. Sepp was named one of the “Ten Most Influential Counterinsurgency Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine (2009). He has appeared on PBS Newshour, CNN, CNNi, BBC, MSNBC, CBS, National Public Radio, and other national news programs.
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About Kalev Sepp
Senior Lecturer and Former Chair of the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, 2009–present
Sepp served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Counterterrorism and as an expert member for the Baker-Hamilton Bipartisan Commission on Iraq. A US Army Special Forces officer, he earned the Combat Infantryman Badge in the Salvadoran Civil War. Other unit assignments include the 82nd Airborne Division, 2nd Ranger Battalion, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Germany, and 2nd Infantry Division in Korea, among others.
An assistant professor of history at the US Military Academy at West Point and resident scholar at Harvard University, Sepp earned a PhD from Harvard University and a master in military art and science from the US Army Command and General Staff College.
His publications include: “Best Practices in Counterinsurgency,” Military Review (May–June 2005), reprinted in Arabic, Spanish, and Portuguese; Weapon of Choice: U.S. Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, with R. Kiper, J. Schroder, and C. Briscoe (2003); chapters in Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure (2015); Leadership: The Warrior’s Art (2001); and War in Iraq: Planning and Execution (2007), among others. Sepp was named one of the “Ten Most Influential Counterinsurgency Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine (2009). He has appeared on PBS Newshour, CNN, CNNi, BBC, MSNBC, CBS, National Public Radio, and other national news programs.
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