Author Debriefing: Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France

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🗓️ 17 May 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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SPY Executive Director Peter Earnest sat down with Ben Jones, Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of History, Dakota State University. Dr. Jones also served as an advisor to the National Military Academy of Afghanistan and later as a liaison officer to the Afghan Ministries of Defense, Interior, and their National Directorate of Security for the effort to transition Afghan security from the coalition back to Afghanistan. Peter and Dr. Jones discuss Ben’s new book, Eisenhower's Guerrillas: The Jedburghs, the Maquis, and the Liberation of France.

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0:46.5	hunters. security today. Hi and welcome to Spycast. From the secret files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.
1:05.5	I'm Dr. Vince Houghton, the Museum's historian and curator.
1:09.5	Every week, the museum brings you interesting conversations with authors,
1:13.1	scholars, and practitioners who live in the world of global espionage.
1:18.6	Join us as we take a closer look at the secret world of intelligence.
1:27.0	My guest today is Ben Jones. He is the author of the book we'll be focusing on quite a bit Eisenhower's
1:35.6	guerrillas, the jedbergs, the Marquis, and the liberation of France, published by
1:41.0	Oxford University Press.
1:43.8	Ben himself served in the US Air Force for some 23 years in the US, Guam, Germany, and
1:50.0	the UK.
1:51.7	He has served two years in Afghanistan, first as an advisor at their military
1:56.0	academy in 2009, and second on General Petraeus' staff, then later General Allen's staff, in Kabul, coordinating with the Afghan
2:05.6	Security Ministries for the transition of security from the coalition to the
2:10.8	Afghan government. He holds a PhD in Modern European History from the University of Kansas.
2:17.0	He's a member of the Department of History at the U.S. Air Force Academy,
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