Daniel Pick

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Daniel A. Pick is an colonel in the United States Army, an advisor to General Stanley McChrystal, senior officer in the Afghanistan War. He was deputy coordinator of the Strategic Assessment Group.

He was an intelligence officer in 3/66 Armor Battalion in the Gulf War, and group intelligence officer for the 1st Special Forces Group. As a Foreign Area Officer (FAO), he was Kuwaiti Land Forces Advisor; Team Leader, Human Intelligence Team, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Northern Iraq; Army Attaché, U.S. Mission to Jordan; Iraq Policy Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense; and FAO Program Director, Defense Language Institute.

His master's thesis from Princeton was on the Shi'a theory of governance, wilayat al-faqih used by Ruhollah Khomeini.^[1]

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• Bachelor of Arts degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization from the University of Washington, a *Master of Military Studies from Marine Corps University
• Master of Arts degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University

• Languages: Arabic, Persian-Farsi, Persian-Dari, and Assyrian.

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