Sean McFate

@seanmcfate

Defense expert & novelist. Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council. Professor of strategy at National Defense University & Georgetown. Scotch lover. Opera zealot.

Washington, DC
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  1. Nov 1

    Private militaries are becoming increasingly normal. Good or bad? Both.

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  2. Oct 27

    About as Many Trump supporters say their choice is a vote against Clinton as say it is for Trump

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  3. Oct 26

    This will be the first big foreign policy test of the next US president. NATO hangs in balance. via

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  4. Oct 25

    Great article by on our mysterious contractors in Iraq and Syria.

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  5. Oct 25

    The Pentagon's Folly: Technology won't save us. Technology has yet to prove decisive in our wars since WW2

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  6. In reply to
    Oct 25

    Contractors are invisible soldiers. Handy for keeping keeping troop levels low in theory but not in practice.

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  7. In reply to
    Oct 24

    Trump and Erik Prince (founder of Blackwater) have much in common.

  8. Oct 17

    is not just fiction.

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  9. Oct 14

    My off the cuff comments on the future of war

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  10. Oct 14

    Fun conversation about the future of war and yesterday. War of the future won't look like the stuff in movies.

    "Mercenaries change warfare. They change who, how, and why we fight."-
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  11. Oct 13

    For Russian domestic consumption only. via

  12. Oct 8

    The rise of right-wing nationalism starts with universities. via

  13. Oct 7

    Stunning, ignorant and scary. Very 1930s. (Truth in lending: I went to LSE for my PhD)

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  14. Oct 7

    Great conversation about mercenaries and military contractors with

    Tune in at 9am for Ostensen and me talk mercenaries
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  15. Oct 6

    Incredibly inspiring! World’s Oldest Man, After Century Wait, Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at Last, via

  16. Sep 29

    The Baltics better watch out! Will NATO defend Estonia? Depends on who's POTUS...

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  18. Sep 14

    Looking forward to bring on CrimeBeat tomorrow to discuss novel with

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  19. Sep 7

    Future contractor-troop ratios may be even higher. Contracting is the new American way of war.

    Fun fact 2: US contractors-to-troops ratio in war zones is up from 1-1 in 2009 to about 3-1 now (2/3)
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  20. Sep 6

    Contractors are doing more and more things once 'inherently governmental.' It won't stop with drones.

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