Joseph Felter
 Joseph Felter  (officer, academic) | |
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| Alma mater | West Point, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, University of West Australia, Stanford University, Singapore Armed Forces Senior Service College |
| Member of | Hoover Institution/Fellows |
| Interests | Hacking |
Spooky military-industrial complex officer and academic with interest in South-East Asia and militarized hacking. | |
Joseph Felter is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and William J. Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation.
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Education
He received a BS from the US Military Academy at West Point, a masters in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a graduate certificate in management from the University of West Australia, and a PhD in political science from Stanford University. He is a graduate of the Singapore Armed Forces Senior Service College and was a US Army War College Fellow at the Hoover Institution.[1]
Early career
A former US Army Special Forces and Foreign Area officer, Joe was in a variety of special operations and diplomatic assignments across East and Southeast Asia. His combat deployments include Panama with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Iraq with a Joint Special Operations Task Force, and Afghanistan, where he commanded the COMISAF Counterinsurgency Advisory and Assistance Team, reporting directly to Generals Stanley McChrystal and David Petraeus.[1]
Later career
Felter is founder and senior advisor at BMNT a Silicon Valley–based technology incubator and problem-solving platform named by Forbes magazine in 2016 as one of the nation’s top-25 veteran-founded start-ups. [1]
At Stanford, Felter is codirector of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Project and coauthor of Hacking for Defense, a defense innovation–focused academic curriculum he helped develop and pilot at Stanford, sponsored by the Pentagon and taught at more than 30 universities across the country.[1]
Deputy assistant secretary of defense
From 2017 to 2019, Felter served as US deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. There he was the principal advisor for all policy matters pertaining to development and implementation of defense strategies and plans in the region and responsible for managing bilateral security relationships and guiding Department of Defense (DoD) engagement with multilateral institutions. [1]
In January 2019 he traveled to Cambodia to pressure the government to drop treason charges against Kem Sokha for conspiring with the US. Government spokesman Phay Siphan condemned the attempt:
We cannot accept it that a US military representative came here to talk with the Cambodian military on political issues...This is confusion. It reminds Cambodia of its past when a revolution in the 1970s was supported by the US military. We don’t want to fall into a similar situation like that. The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces are not a political institution, but they are under the control of the prime minister.[2]
In June 2019 he sent a letter to Cambodia, demanding to know why the Defense Ministry had backtracked on a U.S. offer to refurbish buildings at the base in Preah Sihanouk province on Cambodia's southwest coast, the epicenter of heavy Chinese investment in recent years.[3]
A Document by Joseph Felter
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) |
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| File:Sinjar-records final.pdf | report | December 2007 | Al-Qaeda Iraq Libya |
