Kalev Sepp

Dr. Kalev I. 'Gunner' Sepp is currently the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, in the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict, and Interdependent Capabilities, led by Mr. Michael Vickers. Dr. Sepp is responsible for the Department of Defense global counterterrorism portfolio. This includes policy oversight of all special operations world-wide, and formulation of the Department’s global counterterrorism strategy. He received his current appointment in July 2007.Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Sepp was an assistant professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, teaching in the Special Operations Program. He received his doctorate in American Diplomatic History from Harvard University in 2002, and earned his Combat Infantryman Badge as a brigade adviser in the Salvadoran Civil War and as a Special Forces A-Team leader in Panama.He visited Afghanistan to cowrite an official study of U.S. Army special operations there, and served in Iraq on several occasions as a consultant on intelligence, counterinsurgency and strategy. He testified before the United States Congress on the training of Iraqi military units, and was an expert member of the Baker-Hamilton Bipartisan Commission on Iraq, a.k.a. the Iraq Study Group.Dr. Sepp also holds a master's degree in Military Art and Science from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and previously taught military history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. For his work in Iraq, he was awarded the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal, and the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Global War on Terrorism.

=Publications=

* "Best Practices in Counterinsurgency, "Military Review", May-June 2005, pp. 8–12.
* "Weapon of Choice: U.S. Army Special Operations in Afghanistan", with R. Kiper, J. Schroder, C. Briscoe (Fort Leavenworth: CGSC Press, 2004)
* "Case Study: The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal" (RAND, 2003)
* "The Renaissance Force", with Brig. Gen. R.W. Potter, Jr., chapter in "Leadership: The Warrior’s Art" (Carlisle: Army War College Foundation Press, 2001)
* Review essay, Dana Priest’s The Mission: "Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military", in USNI Proceedings (Sept. 2003)
* "Die atomare Vision. Der Einfluß von Nuklearwaffen auf die Führung der US Army 1952 bis 1958", chapter in "Fuehrungsdenken in europaeischen und nordamerikanischen Steitkraeften im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert", trans. Gerhard Gross (Berlin: MGFA, 2001). Based on paper presented at 42d Annual International Military History Conference, Hamburg, Germany, 12 July 2000

ee Also

*Michael G. Vickers

External links

* [http://research.nps.navy.mil/cgi-bin/vita.cgi?p=display_vita&id=1069353790 Kalev Sepp] at the CTIW site
* [http://research.nps.navy.mil/cgi-bin/vita.cgi?p=display_vita&id=1069353790 Kalev Sepp] at Naval Postgraduate School site