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Army Fellow
Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
August 2004–May 2005
Project Focus
Provincial Reconstruction Teams: A Strategy for Stability in Afghanistan
Areas of Specialization
Balkans | Afghanistan | Civil-Military Relations | Peacekeeping | NATO | Information Operations | U.S. Military
Foreign Language: German
Phone: Office (202) 429-3882
Background
Colonel Michael K. Seidl is a career U.S. Army officer whose past assignments include duty as an armor, foreign area, and psychological operations officer. Previously, he served as the operations officer for the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., where he had oversight and responsibility for managing the training, readiness, mobilization and worldwide deployment for all Department of Defense civil affairs and psychological operations soldiers supporting the global war on terrorism. He served as the deputy commanding officer for the 4th Psychological Operations Group in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom from 2001 to 2003 and commanded a psychological operations battalion from 1999 to 2001, when he deployed to support NATO peacekeeping operations in Kosovo. He served as the psychological operations officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1996 to 1999 and was the operations officer for the Combined Joint IFOR Information Campaign Task Force in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1996. He received the Department of the Army General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award in 1990. Seidl served as an assistant professor of German at the U.S. Military Academy from 1989 to 1993. He holds a master's degree in German from Middlebury College and B.A. degrees in political science and German from the University of Oklahoma.
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