Kalev Sepp

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Professor Kalev I. "Gunner" Sepp is an assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, teaching in the Special Operations Program. He received his doctorate in American Diplomatic History from Harvard University in 2002, and earned his Combat Infantryman Badge as a brigade adviser in the Salvadoran Civil War and as a Special Forces A-Team leader in Panama. He visited Afghanistan to cowrite an official study of U.S. Army special operations there, and served in Iraq on several occasions as a consultant on intelligence, counterinsurgency and strategy. He has testified before the United States Congress on the training of Iraqi military units, and currently is an expert member of the Baker-Hamilton Bipartisan Commission on Iraq. He also holds a master's degree in Military Art and Science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

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Weapon of Choice: U.S. Army Special Operations in Afghanistan, with R. Kiper, J. Schroder, C. Briscoe (Fort Leavenworth: CGSC Press, 2004)
Case Study: The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal (RAND, 2003)
The Renaissance Force, with Brig. Gen. R.W. Potter, Jr., chapter in Leadership: The Warrior’s Art (Carlisle: Army War College Foundation Press, 2001)
Review essay, Dana Priest’s The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military, in USNI Proceedings (Sept. 2003)
Die atomare Vision. Der Einfluß von Nuklearwaffen auf die Führung der US Army 1952 bis 1958, chapter in Fuehrungsdenken in europaeischen und nordamerikanischen Steitkraeften im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, trans. Gerhard Gross (Berlin: MGFA, 2001). Based on paper presented at 42d Annual International Military History Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 12 July 2000