David D. PalkkiDavid D. Palkki is the deputy director and senior researcher at the National Defense University's Conflict Records Research Center. He has authored and coauthored articles and chapters on Iraq that have been accepted for publication in International ecurity, in Diplomatic History, and by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Palkki is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation, 'Deterring Saddam's Iraq: Theory and Practice', draws heavily on the captured Iraqi records. He previously worked as a contractor at the Institute for Defense Analyses. He is a recipient of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation's Herbert York Fellowship and a National Science Foundation fellowship. Read More Read Less