Michael Connell
Director Of Iranian Studies, Center for Naval Analyses
Dr. Michael Connell is Middle East specialist and the Director of CNA's Iranian Studies Program. While at CNA, he has authored several studies that focus on political, military, and security issues related to Iran and the other Persian Gulf countries. His most recent work focuses on Iranian military doctrine and strategy, escalation dynamics in cyberspace, recruitment and training in Iran's armed forces, and Iran-GCC relations.
Iran is a second tier cyber power. By the standards of other state actors, its capabilities—both offensive and defensive—are relatively modest, but they are growing steadily. Cyber operations have [...] More
