Paul Pillar

Paul R. Pillar is a non-resident senior fellow at the Center for Security Studies of Georgetown University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community. His senior positions included national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, deputy chief of the DCI Counterterrorist Center, and executive assistant to the director of Central Intelligence. He is a Vietnam War veteran and a retired officer in the U.S. Army Reserve. Pillar received an A.B. summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, a B.Phil. from Oxford University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. His books include “Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process” (1983), “Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy” (2001), and “Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform” (2011). He blogs at The National Interest.