Horatio Smith

Horatio Smith (pen name) is a strategic analyst at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Office of Information Operations Policy, and an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. His articles have appeared in War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy, and the CIA’s Studies in Intelligence Journal.

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