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Thomas Warrick

Thomas Warrick

Thomas Warrick is a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative. He served as the deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism policy at the US Department of Homeland Security (2008-2019) and as a senior State Department official working on Middle East and international justice issues (1997-2007), including as the lead on the “Future of Iraq” initiative from 2002-2003.

One lesson from U.S. planning efforts for Iraq and Afghanistan is that postwar planning cannot wait until humanitarian assistance is in place.