George C Fidas
Adjunct Associate Professor
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George C. Fidas is an adjunct professor at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security and lecturer at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, as well as a veteran of more than thirty years in the Intelligence Community. Mr. Fidas held several analytical and managerial positions at the Central Intelligence Agency and did a tour in the State Department’s Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. He later was appointed Deputy and then Acting National Intelligence Officer for Global and Multilateral Issues on the National Intelligence Council. He also served as the DCI Faculty Representative to the National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces and to the Elliott School of International Affairs. In his final tour of duty, Mr. Fidas was Director for Outreach in the Office of the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, where his responsibilities included increasing the nexus between the Intelligence Community and knowledge communities outside the government. He received his BA and MA from the University of Rhode Island and did additional graduate work at the University of Maryland. He has written extensively on global, European and Intelligence issues and now focuses on teaching in these areas.
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Putin-Erdogan deal on Syria demilitarized zone heads off showdown, pending bloodbath
“Syria is a proxy battlefield,” said Michael Sharnoff, associate professor of Middle East studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security. “The Turks are supporting rebel groups, the Saudis are in there supporting rebel groups. You have the Russians and Iranians in there supporting the regime. It’s not like what happens in Syria stays in Syria.”
U.S. backed in corner as Syria, Russia plan bloody assault in Idlib with chemical weapons in arsenal
“There’s always been overlapping or unclear objectives. There’s never been an unambiguous strategy. Unlike the Russians, as we know, who have always had one clear strategy: the preservation of the Assad regime. And they’ve backed that up with military force,” said Michael Sharnoff, associate professor of Middle East studies at the Daniel Morgan Graduate School of National Security.
HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST MEDIA RELEASES AND APPEARANCES
9/19/2018 –
September 2012 – “Denial and Deception: Cognitive and Analytical Pitfalls,”JMITC- Five Eyes Conference.
October, 2011 – The Value of Scenario Analysis as an Instructional Tool,” JMITC-Five Eyes Conference.
15 November, 2005 – “The Impact of HIV/AIDS on State and Regional Stability in Africa,” National Defense University Symposium: “Africa: Vital to U.S. Security, Washington, D.C.
21 March, 2005 – “Health and National Security,” Conference on Emerging Issues in National and International Security, National Security and Law Society, American University School of Law, (to be published in proceedings).
21 July, 2005 – “State Stability and the Strategic Impact of HIV/AIDS in the Next Wave Countries,” 21st Century Trust Conference on the Challenge of HIV/AIDS: Thinking Ahead,” Windsor Great Park, UK.
26 April, 2004 – “State Stability and the Strategic Impact of Disease,” 21st Century Trust Conference on Disease and State Security,” Varenna, Italy.
25 April, 2002 – “Disease Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean and its Implications for the United States and for U.S. and Global Policy,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2006 Facilitator, Joint Military Intelligence College Symposium on Black Sea and Caspian Sea Security
2005 Career Intelligence Medal and several CIA exceptional performance awards during CIA, National Intelligence
Council and Intelligence Community career
2005 Chaired best thesis award winner at the Joint Military Intelligence College
2005 Member, The International Association for Intelligence Education
2005 Guest lecturer on intelligence issues at Institute for U.S. Foreign Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs,
The George Washington University
2005 Facilitator, lecturer, Joint Military Intelligence College International Intelligence Fellows Program
2004 Conceptualized and led effort to create the Intelligence Community Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Scholarship Program
2004 Guest lecturer on intelligence issues at Institute for U.S. Foreign Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs,
The George Washington University
2003 Participant, HIV/AIDS Task Force, Center for Strategic and International Studies
2001 Briefed National Intelligence Council National Intelligence Estimates on infectious diseases and on
migration at various government, health, and non-governmental association fora
1996 Awarded Commander’s Medal, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University
1967 Awarded graduate fellowship, Department of Government, University of Maryland
