Nonresident Fellow
Alex Deep is an Army Special Forces officer currently serving as the executive officer to the director of operations at United States Special Operations Command. Alex graduated from West Point in 2006, commissioned into the infantry, and later became a Special Forces officer. Alex has deployed multiple times in support of combat operations in Afghanistan and Syria. Alex holds a master of arts degree in strategic studies and international economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and previously taught courses in international relations and the politics of the Middle East as an assistant professor of international affairs at the United States Military Academy.