Seth Cropsey

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Seth Cropsey, President of the Yorktown Institute
2nd Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict)
In office
July 13, 1989 October 18, 1989

Books

Critical studies and reviews of Cropsey's work

Seablindness
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