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Joshua Foust

Joshua Foust, a member of the Atlantic Council's Young Atlanticist Working Group, is DC-based analyst who writes about strategy, counterterrorism, and futures. He is the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net.His website is JoshuaFoust.com.

He was previously a fellow at the American Security Project and a civilian cultural advisor for the US Army.

While living in Kazakhstan in 2003, Joshua began a torrid love affair with Central Asia that hasn’t yet petered out. In real life he’s spent the vast majority of his adult life doing defense and intelligence consulting.

In addition to writing for Registan.net, Joshua edits the Afghanistan roundups section at Global Voices Online. His writing has appeared in World Politics Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Reuters, and several other publications, both American and international, where he’s discussed energy policy, military policy, and the cultural components of warfare. Joshua is a regular contributor to The Columbia Journalism Review, where he analyzes American media coverage of conflict zones.

Joshua is a native speaker of English, decent at French, knows just enough street Russian to get around a market and the mashrutkas, and is learning Farsi at an abysmal pace when not consumed with work or writing.

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