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

United States National Security Council

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 from 1982 to 1987, after working under Presidents Jimmy Carter

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 and Ronald Reagan

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 at the Departments of State and Defense.

Teicher received his BA in Political Science, summa cum laude and phi beta kappa, 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 for Public Sector & Satellite Markets at Expand Networks

Expand Networks

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He is the co-author of Twin Pillars To Desert Storm: America's Flawed Vision in the Middle East from Nixon to Bush.