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Popular Resources
Upcoming Courses
*Continuous Learning (CL) courses are not shownSpecial Operations Forces- Influence and Operations in the Information Environment (Pilot)
Summit
Theater Special Operations Command Staff Preparation Course-Mobile
Recent Publications
Special Operations Research Topics 2023
The Network Illusion: How a Network-Centric Special Operations Culture Impedes Strategic Effect
ArcticNEXT: Compound Security Threats in Strategic Competition
Featured Publications
Quick Links
JSOU's Upcoming Events
ThinkJSOU with Dr. Rory Cormac: How To Stage A Coup And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft
Lunchtime Talk with Nick Reynolds: Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
Recently Ended
Lunchtime Talk with Nick Reynolds: Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence
Lunchtime Talk: Irregular Warfare in Strategic Competition
ThinkJSOU Panel: The 2022 National Security Strategy and Interagency Cooperation
About this event
Joint
Special Operations University Office for Strategic Engagement is proud to
announce a live ThinkJSOU webinar on 8 February 2023 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
EST with Dr. Rory Cormac. He will be discussing his new book How to
Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons from the World of Secret Statecraft.
Bio: Dr.
Rory Cormac is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the
University of Nottingham. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a
leading expert among a new generation of intelligence historians, he
specialises in British covert operations and the secret pursuit of foreign
policy.
Book
Summary: Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers
is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning to secret
statecraft and the hidden hand to navigate these uncertain waters. From
poisonings to electoral interference, subversion to cyber sabotage, states
increasingly operate in the shadows, while social media has created new avenues
for disinformation on a mass scale.
This is
covert action: perhaps the most sensitive - and controversial - of all state
activity. However, for all its supposed secrecy, it has become surprisingly
prominent - and it is something that has the power to affect all of us.
In an enthralling and urgent narrative packed with real-world examples, Rory
Cormac reveals how such activity is shaping the world and argues that
understanding why and how states wield these dark arts has never been more
important.
Audience: The
target audience is the Special Operations Enterprise (primary) and
Interagency (secondary)
The views
expressed in this interview are entirely the opinions of the participants. They
do not represent the views of the United States Government, Department of
Defense, United States Special Operations Command, or the Joint Special
Operations University.
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Read Ahead
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The Dark Arts of Statecraft - Review of How to Stage a Coup.pdf
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Reviews-IntelOfficers-Bookshelf-66_How to Stage a Coup.pdf

Jeffrey Rogg
Jeff Rogg is an Assistant Professor of
Strategic Intelligence and JIIM at Joint Special Operations University. His
research interests include U.S. intelligence history, civil-intelligence
relations, comparative intelligence, and national security policy. Jeff is
currently revising his book manuscript, The Spy and the State: The
Story of American Intelligence, which is under contract with Oxford
University Press.
Jeff has published articles in
the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence and Intelligence
and National Security. He has authored and co-authored book chapters on
comparative intelligence and U.S. intelligence oversight. Jeff’s work has also
appeared in Just Security, The Washington Post, The
National Interest, and the Los Angeles Times.
Jeff sits on the editorial board of
the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence.
He also currently serves as the Communications Director/Newsletter Editor for
the Intelligence Studies Section of the International Studies Association and the
Virtual Brown Bag Coordinator for the North American Society for Intelligence
History.
Prior to his position at JSOU, Jeff
was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Intelligence and Security
Studies at The Citadel. He completed a postdoctoral teaching and research
fellowship in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War
College. Jeff served for six years in the Massachusetts Army National Guard. He
is a graduate of US Army Airborne School and Air Assault School.
Degrees
Ph.D. History (The Ohio
State University)
M.A. Security Studies (Georgetown University School of Foreign
Service)
J.D. (Villanova University)
B.A. Latin, Ancient History (Swarthmore College)
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Rory Cormac
Rory Cormac is a Professor of
International Relations specialising in Secret Intelligence and Covert
Action. Rory has written six books, most
recently, HOW TO STAGE A COUP and 10 Other Lessons from the World of Secret
Statecraft (Atlantic, 2022).
Alongside Richard J.
Aldrich, he has researched and fronted three documentaries for Channel 4: Spying
on the Royals (2017), D-Day: The King who Fooled Hitler (2019)
and The Queen and the Coup (2020). He has
appeared at the Hay, Cheltenham and Edinburgh Literary Festivals, and regularly
features in national and international media outlets, including most UK
newspapers, BBC Breakfast, BBC 5Live, BBC Radio 4, BBC History Magazine, and,
in America, NBC and National Geographic.
Rory has spoken at the UK
Cabinet Office, Home Office, Number 10 and Ministry of Defence, as well as the
US State Department and Pentagon.
In 2018, he held a
Leverhulme International Academic Fellowship based at Johns Hopkins University.
Between 2015 and 2017, he held an AHRC Fellowship examining British approaches
to covert action, 1945-1968. Rory is a Fellow of the Royal
Historical Society and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Before joining Nottingham, Rory worked at the University of Warwick and King's
College London.