Ben Connable

Biography

Ben Connable is an international policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and a retired Marine Corps intelligence and Arabic-speaking Foreign Area officer. Connable focuses on counterinsurgency and intelligence methodology, and also works on Middle East regional and other warfare issues in support of U.S. Department of Defense sponsors. He has an extensive background in military cultural terrain theory and application, having served as cultural advisor to general officers in Iraq and as the head of the Marine Corps cultural intelligence program. He currently leads RAND's support to the Marine Corps' analytic efforts on Afghanistan and is completing a monograph on operational assessments in counterinsurgency. Connable received his B.A. in political science from the University of Colorado–Boulder, his M.A. in strategic intelligence from American Military University, and his M.A. in national security affairs from the Naval Postgraduate School.