Rosa Brooks

Georgetown University / New America / Foreign Policy

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Professor of Law at Georgetown University, senior fellow at New America and a columnist at Foreign Policy; author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon; former counselor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; former senior advisor at the US State Department

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Rosa Brooks is the child of anti-war parents who protested against the Gulf War before she became a lawyer, married a soldier and served for two years as one of the highest-ranking…

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Rosa Brooks is the child of anti-war parents who protested against the Gulf War before she became a lawyer, married a soldier and served for two years as one of the highest-ranking…

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