Lt. Col. Joseph H. Felter

Assessing Counter Terrorism Policies

16:30-18:00, Thursday, 26 October 2006

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph H. Felter, a career Special Forces and Foreign Area Officer, is the Director of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and an Assistant Professor in the international relations and terrorism studies program at the US Military Academy. His military experience includes service as a platoon leader with the 75th Ranger Regiment and as a Special Forces A-Team Leader and Company Commander in the 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne). As a military attaché in Manila, he planned and coordinated combined efforts to develop the counter terrorist capabilities of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Lieutenant Colonel Felter is a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College, the Singapore Command and Staff College, and numerous special operations qualification schools. He received a B.S. from the United States Military Academy, earned a Masters degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a Graduate Certificate in Management from the University of West Australia, and received his PhD in political science from Stanford University. His dissertation assesses the impact that variation in quality and structures of state internal security forces has on efforts to combat insurgency and terrorism.

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