Rose Mary Sheldon

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Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon (born October 10, 1948) held the Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute, where she taught from 1993 to 2019. She is an expert in intelligence operations in the ancient world. She received her doctorate in ancient history from the University of Michigan for which she won a National Intelligence Book award in 1987. In 1981, she became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Sheldon has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Military History , and of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence . [1] [2]

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  1. Rom, Rami; Gilat, Amir; Sheldon, Rose Mary (2018). "The Yom Kippur War, Dr. Kissinger, and the Smoking Gun". International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. 31 (2): 357–373. doi:10.1080/08850607.2018.1417526. S2CID   158530420.
  2. "Rose Mary Sheldon". H-net . Retrieved 22 September 2022.