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The Team House

Assistant Secretary of Special Ops and Low Intensity Conflict | Mike Vickers | Ep. 249

The Team House

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History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Part 2 with Mike we talk about the latter part of his career as the Assistant Sec Def for Special Ops and Low Intensity Conflict and as Under Sec Def for Intel.
Mike Vickers was Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (2011-2015) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict and Interdependent Capabilities (2007-2011) – service that spanned the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Earlier in his career, he served as a CIA Operations Officer and Special Forces Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer. As the ASD SO/LIC&IC and USD(I), he had a central role in developing our strategy and overseeing our campaigns to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qa’ida and in the operation to kill Usama Bin Ladin. As a CIA officer during the 1980s, he was the program officer and principal strategist for the largest and most successful covert action program in CIA’s history, enabling the Afghan resistance to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
He is a recipient of the Presidential National Security Medal, our nation’s highest award in intelligence. He has a Ph.D. in International Relations/Strategic Studies from Johns Hopkins, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Alabama.
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Special Operations.

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Espionage.

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With your hopes, Jack Murphy and David Park.

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Hi everyone, welcome to episode 249 of the team house. I'm Jack Murphy here with

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David Park and joining us for part two of our interview is Mike Vickers.

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Mike served in the CIA in 10th Special Forces Group.

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And we talked about that on last Friday's episode.

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Tonight's episode, we're going to talk about his time

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primarily at

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A.S.D. Solik, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense

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for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict,

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