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Dr. Larry Valero

Associate Professor

Dr. Larry Valero (Ph.D. Cambridge, M.A. King's College London, B.A. UCLA) is an Associate Professor in the Defense and Security Program at the Rabdan Academy/Zayed Military University. He is the former Department Head and Associate Professor of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina. He served as the President of the International Association for Intelligence Education from 2014-2019. Dr. Valero has published articles in Cryptologic Quarterly, the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Intelligence and National Security, and Studies in Intelligence. He was previously Scholar in Residence at the National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, Maryland and served on the faculty of the Department of International Security and Military Studies at the U.S. Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dr. Valero also served as an American Council on Education faculty evaluator for military programs in the field of intelligence.

Qualification

    • Ph.D., History, St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, 2002
    • M.A., War Studies, King’s College, University of London, 1996
    • B.A., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 1990

Teaching Areas

    Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Research Interests

    U.S. intelligence and national security, strategy, and modern warfare

Publications

    “’We need our new OSS, our new General Donovan, now…’: Public Discourse over American Intelligence, 1944-1953,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 91-118.

    “The American Joint Intelligence and Estimates of the Soviet Union, 1945-1947,” Studies in Intelligence, No. 9 (Summer 2000), pp. 65-80.

Dr. Larry Valero
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