Stephen Peter Rosen

Stephen Peter Rosen

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Stephen Peter Rosen

Stephen Peter Rosen is the Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University, Senior Counselor at the Long Term Strategy Group, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy for Strategic Education. He was Master of Winthrop House during the years 2003-2009, also at Harvard University. He has received three prizes for excellence in undergraduate teaching: the Harvard College Professorship in 2002, the prize awarded by the Alpha and Iota Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 2003, and the Levenson Prize in 2017, awarded by the Harvard College Undergraduate Council. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Rosen was a professor in the Strategy Department and a Secretary of the Navy Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College.

Rosen was the civilian assistant to the Director of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he wrote the first East Asian Net Assessment, and the Director of Political-Military Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, where he was author of NSDD 166, the United States government strategy document for the Afghan covert war. He served on the President's Commission on Integrated Long Term Strategy, on the Gulf War Air Power Survey sponsored by the Secretary of the Air Force analyzing counter-proliferation military actions, as a commissioner on a classified, Congressionally mandated review, and as member of the Board of Visitors of the Joint Forces Command.

He is the author of three books, Winning the Next War, Societies and Military Power, and War and Human Nature.

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