Sean McFate

<p>Sean McFate is a professor of strategy at the National Defense University and Georgetown University&#8217;s School of Foreign Service. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a think tank. He served as a paratrooper in the US Army&#8217;s 82nd Airborne Division and then worked for a major private military corporation, where he ran operations similar to those in this book. He is the author of <em>The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order</em>, and holds a BA from Brown University, a MA from Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government, and a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.</p>