Charles Faint

Lieutenant Colonel Charles Faint is a career US Army intelligence officer with extensive experience in special operations and over sixteen years of service. His most recent operational assignment was to the Joint Special Operations Command, and he also served in the 5th Special Forces Group and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. He has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan a total of seven times, and is currently in advanced civil schooling at Yale University in preparation for a teaching assignment in the Department of Social Sciences of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Lieutenant Colonel Faint welcomes feedback on his article and can be reached via email at charles.faint@us.army.mil. The views expressed in the article are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the US military. This article is an update to one which first appeared in American Intelligence Journal.