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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeposition tomorrow: Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Secy of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia
Laura Cooper is a career member of the Senior Executive Service. She has responsibility for policy concerning Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, and Moldova), and Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia) as well as Conventional Arms Control.
Ms. Cooper previously served as a Principal Director in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security Affairs, with responsibility for policies on: mission assurance, defense continuity of operations, critical infrastructure protection, homeland counterterrorism, global antiterrorism policy, and the Council of Governors.
Prior assignments in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy include: Director of the Strategy office, where she helped manage the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review; Acting Director for South Asia; and Afghanistan Team Chief, Stability Operations Office.
Prior to joining the Department of Defense in 2001, Ms. Cooper was a policy planning officer at the State Department in the Office of Coordinator for Counterterrorism. She has also served as a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
https://www.defense.gov/Our-Story/Biographies/Article/1568391/laura-k-cooper/
Laura Cooper
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Bring it on home, please, Ms. Cooper
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The walls around Trump are falling.
Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)I think someone with her long career and experiences will most likely be a great addition to our roster of s!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)These professionals in every Department are the backbone of the Government. But Trump and his followers prefer that Government employees demonstrate personal loyalty to Trump himself. A very dangerous philosophy much loved by dictators everywhere.
Sneederbunk
(14,272 posts)Leghorn21
(13,522 posts)yeah, okay Sean and hey, buddy, wheres your lawyer these days?!