Oral history interview with Matthew Cancian, 2024 June
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Date
2024 June
Summary
Matthew Cancian is a Marine veteran and MIT Ph.D. who studies military operations as an associate professor at the Naval War College. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022, where he concentrated in Security Studies and Comparative Politics. His thesis was about the motivations of combatants and the effects of training, based on a survey of 2,301 Kurdish fighters (Peshmerga) during their war against the Islamic State. His unclassified research currently focuses on wargaming U.S.-China conflicts.
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