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Kenneth L. Stiles

Instructor
Ken Stiles
239 Wallace Hall

Specialties:

·     Intelligence

·     National Security

·     Counter Terrorism

·     GIS/Remote Sending in the Intelligence Community

·     Global Conflict Drivers

I bring 29 years of CIA expertise and experience into the classroom to teach students from my participation in real world events.

Courses Recently Taught:

·     The CIA in Today’s Geopolitical World (GEOG 3034)

·     The Geography of Global Conflict {GEOG 2034)

Recent Publications:  My role in the CIA’s fight against al Qaeda after 9/11 is chronicled in Henry Crumpton’s The Art of Intelligence , Penguin Press, 2012 as well as Annie Jacobsen’s Surprise, Kill, Vanish,  Little, Brown and Company, 2019 .