Carter Malkasian
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Carter Malkasian (born 1975) is an American historian and the chair of the defense analysis department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He is a former adviser to American military commanders in Afghanistan.
Malkasian earned a doctorate in military history from the University of Oxford,[1] where he studied under Robert O'Neill.[2] After completing his studies, he became a teacher at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.[3] He then worked at the Center for Naval Analyses before spending time in Iraq conducting research in 2004 and 2006. In 2007, he worked with a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kunar Province in Afghanistan. He returned to Afghanistan in 2009 and spent two years in Garmsir District in Helmand Province as a State Department representative to the district. In Garsmir, he was known for his ability to speak Pashto and his rejection of typical personal security precautions.[3] From May 2013 to August 2014, he worked as a political adviser to General Joseph Dunford, the commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.[4]
