Dr. Jerry Laurienti
Former Senior Intelligence Service Officer
Dr. Jerry Laurienti is a former Senior Intelligence Service Officer. He has nearly three decades of national security expertise, having held senior positions at the CIA, State Department, and Department of Defense. As a CIA Deputy Associate Director and member of CIA’s Leadership Board, he helped shape the Agency's future in intelligence, strategic operations, and countering global adversaries. His expertise spans international security, foreign policy, and geopolitical analysis, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, Global Energy, Latin America, and the Near East. He is a current adjunct faculty member at The Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service.
OPINION — As experts studiously debate what the latest Israel-Iran fighting will lead to, including a possible Iranian collapse, one enduring but less understood reality goes mostly untreated: [...] More
