Michael Vlahos

Organization: 
John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Position: 
National Security Analysis Department senior staff member
Notable Publications/Publishers: 

Terror’s Mask: Insurgency Within Islam (2002); Culture’s Mask: War and Change After Iraq (2004); Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change (2008)

Michael Vlahos (DC): Author, Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change (2008); Senior Staff Member, National Security Analysis Department, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; Former Fellow, Progress & Freedom Foundation and Center for Naval Analysis; Former Head, Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs, U.S. State Dept.; transborder regions are spaces between and bridges among Pakistan and Afghanistan, methods used for countering insurgency in Iraq will not be successful in Afghanistan