Shadow Government

A front-row seat to the Republicans' debate over foreign policy, including their critique of the Biden administration.

Welcome Paul Miller

Today we have a new contributor stepping "into the Shadows," as Paul Miller joins the hale ranks of Shadow Government contributors. For his day job, Paul is an assistant professor of international security studies at the National Defense University. Prior to stepping behind a lectern, he served as director for Afghanistan on the National Security ...

By , the executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and the author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.

Today we have a new contributor stepping "into the Shadows," as Paul Miller joins the hale ranks of Shadow Government contributors. For his day job, Paul is an assistant professor of international security studies at the National Defense University. Prior to stepping behind a lectern, he served as director for Afghanistan on the National Security Council staff from September 2007 to September 2009. Before working as a policymaker, he previously served as a political analyst in the U.S. intelligence community, specializing in South Asia. He also serves as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2002.

Today we have a new contributor stepping "into the Shadows," as Paul Miller joins the hale ranks of Shadow Government contributors. For his day job, Paul is an assistant professor of international security studies at the National Defense University. Prior to stepping behind a lectern, he served as director for Afghanistan on the National Security Council staff from September 2007 to September 2009. Before working as a policymaker, he previously served as a political analyst in the U.S. intelligence community, specializing in South Asia. He also serves as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2002.

In short, Paul brings a wealth of policy, scholarly, and field experience, and we are fortunate to have him aboard.

Will Inboden is the executive director of the Clements Center for National Security and an associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, both at the University of Texas at Austin, a distinguished scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and the author of The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink.

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