Daniel Pick

Daniel A. Pick is an colonel in the United States Army, an advisor GEN Stanley McChrystal, senior officer in the Afghanistan War (2001-). He was deputy coordinator of the Strategic Assessment Group.

He was an intelligence officer of 3/66 Armor Battalion in the [{Gulf War]], and group intelligence officer for the 1st Special Forces Group. As a Foreign Area Officer, he was Kuwaiti Land Forces Advisor; Team Leader, Human Intelligence Team, 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Northern Iraq; Army Attaché, U.S. Mission to Jordan; Iraq Policy Officer, Office of the Secretary of Defense; and FAO Program Director, Defense Language Institute.

His master's thesis from Princeton was on the Shi'a theory of governance, wilayat al-faqih used by Ruhollah Khomeni.

Education

 * Bachelor of Arts degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization from the University of Washington, a *Master of Military Studies from Marine Corps University
 * Master of Arts degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University


 * Languages: Arabic, Persian-Farsi, Persian-Dari, and Assyrian.