Syria, last 24 hours: Incoherent says Brett McGurk

Syria, last 24 hours: Incoherent, says Brett McGurk

Syria, last 24 hours: * US military returns in force from Iraq to guard oil fields * Thousands of refugees stream in other direction into northern Iraq * Erdogan threatens again to “do the cleansing work” in Kurdish areas US forces left to Russia and Assad Incoherent


Brett McGurk@brett_mcgurk

Payne Distinguished Lecturer
@Stanford. Foreign Affairs Analyst
@NBCNews/
@MSNBC. Former Presidential Envoy. Served under Bush, Obama, Trump. Dad.
@CarnegieMEC.
Palo Alto, CA

 

 
Bio


Brett McGurk is the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute and Center for Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

McGurk’s research interests center on national security strategy, diplomacy, and decision-making in wartime. He is particularly interested in the lessons learned over the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump regarding the importance of process in informing presidential decisions and the alignment of ends and means in national security doctrine and strategy. At Stanford, he will be working on a book project incorporating these themes and teaching a graduate level seminar on presidential decision-making beginning in the fall of 2019. He is also a frequent commentator on national security events in leading publications and as an NBC News Senior Foreign Affairs Analyst.



Before coming to Stanford, McGurk served as Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS at the U.S. Department of State, helping to build and then lead the coalition of seventy-five countries and four international organizations in the global campaign against the ISIS terrorist network. McGurk was also responsible for coordinating all aspects of U.S. policy in the campaign against ISIS in Iraq, Syria, and globally.

https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/brett-mcgurk