From Wiki - SPOOK intel, propaganda ? Military Gallagher was a United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, serving seven years (2006–2013) on active duty.[4] He twice deployed to the Al Anbar Province, Iraq, serving on General Petraeus' CENTCOM Assessment Team as a commander of intelligence teams. He assessed American military strategy in the Middle East and Central Asia in his role as a counterintelligence officer, and as a member of the CENTCOM assessment team.[5] Education Gallagher earned his B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. With a growing interest in global security, he moved** his major from Spanish to Arabic** [3] graduating in 2006.[6] Gallagher completed a 117-page long senior thesis, titled "New Approaches to Asymmetric Threats in the Middle East: From Fighting to Winning", under the supervision of Frederick Hitz.[7] At this time he completed a summer internship abroad with the **Rand Corporation **in Cambridge, UK, working on a strategic study of terrorist groups such as the Basque separatists in Spain. Having served on his first tour of Iraq with the United States Marine Corps, Gallagher began a MSSI (Master of Science in **Strategic Intelligence) at National Intelligence** University graduating in 2010. Gallagher completed a second M.A, in Security Studies in 2012; and a third M.A. in Government in 2013; both from **Georgetown University**. He then began doctoral studies, writing a dissertation on the administrations of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Cold War,[8] receiving his Ph.D. in Government - International Relations in 2015.[9] [ From Wikipedia ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gallagher_(American_politician))