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John Gallagher is a U.S. Army officer and former director in the Office of Iraq and Afghanistan Affairs at the National Security Council, where he also served as a 2007-2008 White House Fellow. Prior to the fellowship, John was an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point where he taught courses on Western liberalism and political Islam, American politics, and counterterrorism. A recipient of the William F. Murdy Award for teaching excellence, John was also the director of West Point's national-merit scholarship program, mentoring twenty-two scholarship winners over two years.
An Army infantry officer who has served with the 82nd Airborne Division and 1st Armored Division, John graduated from West Point in 1994 and holds two master's degrees with distinction from The University of Chicago, one in public policy and one in political theory. John is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served as a delegate to the American Academy of Achievement's International Summit in 2008. He is also the co-editor of Debating the War of Ideas, to be released by Palgrave MacMillan in fall 2009.
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