Ehsan Ahrari

Ehsan Ahrari is Adjunct Research Professor at the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College, Carlisle, PA, and the CEO of Strategic Paradigms, an Alexandria, VA-based foreign and defense policy consultancy. He specializes in Great Power relations, Strategic affairs of the world of Islam, and anti-terrorism. His latest book, "The Islamic Challenge and the United States: Global Security in an Age of Uncertainty," will be published by the McGill University Press in December 2016. His website is: www.ehsanahrari.com. He can be reached at: ahrari@earthlink.net. Views contained in this essay are strictly private.