Hy S. Rothstein, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army with a Ph. D. in international relations, served as a Special Forces officer for more than 26 years, spending many years training and advising governments threatened by active insurgencies.

Hy Rothstein has been on the faculty at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA since 2002. Hy has spent considerable time in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Philippines observing the conduct of those wars. Dr. Rothstein has written and edited books about Afghanistan, Iraq, the similarities between insurgency and gang violence, military deception, and the challenges of measuring success and failure during war. Dr. Rothstein teaches courses on the strategic utility of special operations, military deception, and psychological and political warfare. He also served in the US Army as a Special Forces officer for more than twenty-six years.