Stephen Pelletiere, Ph.D.

Stephen Pelletière, Ph.D., holds a B.A. in English from the University of Vermont and a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Central Intelligence Agency’s senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and was a professor at the Army War College from 1988 to 2000. He also served as the Middle East expert at the War College’s Strategic Studies Institute during the same period. He has held positions in journalism and taught at the University of California-Berkeley, Ripon College, and Union College. Pelletière is the author of The Kurds: An Unstable Element in the Gulf (Westview Press, 1984); The Iran-Iraq War: Chaos in a Vacuum (Praeger Publishers, 1992); and Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf (Maisonneuve Press, 2004).