Dr Douglas Pryer

Dr Douglas Pryer

Associate Lecturer in Military History and Strategy

Department of International Politics

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Doug Pryer is an Associate Lecturer of Military History and Strategy with a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University and a Master of Military Art and Science in Military History from the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College. He possesses twenty-five years of military experience in an array of jobs, to include Middle East strategist and political-military advisor for the U.S. military’s senior policy advisor to the President of the United States. He has served more than than twelve years in intelligence and security positions and nearly nine years in America's developmental efforts in Yemen, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Bosnia as well as the UK’s counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan. He has won numerous prizes for his published writings in the fields of strategic studies and peace, conflict, and developmental studies, writings that include two books, two book chapters, seven conference papers, and more than fifty essays, articles, and reports in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and national security blogs.

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Drop-in hours: Tuesday 1130-1230, Wednesday 1530-1630

Publications

Pryer, D 2023, Turning the Blind Eye: U.S. Military-Led State Building and Host-Nation Political Corruption, from the Spanish-American War to the Global War on Terrorism.
Pryer, D 2022, The Pitfalls of Unsupervised Aid to Ukraine..
Pryer, D 2018, An Exploration of War and Moral Injury..
Pryer, D 2018, Gina Haspel’s Interrogation Program Hurt Americans, Too..
Pryer, D & Meagher, RE 2018, War and Moral Injury: A Reader. Cascade Books.
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