Howard Teicher served as Director for the Near East and South Asia and Senior Director for Political-Military Affairs on the staff of the

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from 1982 to 1987, after working under Presidents

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and

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at the Departments of State and Defense. Teicher received his BA in political science, summa cum laude and

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, from Boston University in 1976. He received a Masters in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1978. Teicher is currently Vice President with Radware. He is the co-author of ''Twin Pillars To Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush''.''Twin Pillars'' on Foreign Affairs.
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