Stephen D Biddle was born on January 19,1959 and is an American author, military historian, policy analyst and columnist whose work concentrates on US foreign policy.
18 Facts About Stephen Biddle
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Stephen Biddle received recognition for his 2004 book Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle, published through Princeton University Press.
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Stephen Biddle has worked in groups under Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus forming US counter-insurgency policy.
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Stephen Biddle spent a lot of his childhood reading about military history and foreign affairs.
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Stephen Biddle went on to operate 400,000-line Fortran models of combat scenarios outcomes between the Warsaw Pact and NATO from 1981 to 1983.
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Stephen Biddle earned a Master's Degree in 1985 and then a Doctor of Philosophy in 1992, both of those degrees coming from Harvard and both focusing on American public policy.
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Stephen Biddle served as Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs before joining the faculty of School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in 2018.
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Stephen Biddle joined the faculty there in August 2012, after serving as the Roger Hertog Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, which he joined in January 2006.
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Stephen Biddle retains an affiliation with the Council as Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy.
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Stephen Biddle formerly worked as an associate professor and Elihu Root chair of military studies at the US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.
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Stephen Biddle's career has included research and teaching posts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Institute for Defense Analyses, Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government's Office of National Security Programs.
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Stephen Biddle published Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle through Princeton University Press in 2004.
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Stephen Biddle extended his analysis to non-state actors in his 2021 book, Nonstate Warfare: The Military Methods of Guerrillas, Warlords, and Militias.
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Stephen Biddle received the US Army Superior Civilian Service Medal in 2003 and again in 2006.
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Stephen Biddle received the US Army Commander's Award for Public Service in 2007 as well.
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Stephen Biddle remarked in 2006 that the War in Afghanistan had progressively grown more difficult for American forces since, at first, they fought untrained, amateur Taliban-related militants.
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Stephen Biddle referred to the Afghan war in mid-2009 as "perhaps the most controversial and divisive issue in US defense policy".
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Stephen Biddle has argued generally about the US military and its history,.