In this episode, we discuss the concept of narrative warfare and how it pertains to military providers with Dr. Ajit Maan. 

Ajit Maan, Ph.D. specializes in Narrative Warfare and Strategic Influence in large scale conflict.

She is currently:
-Professor of Practice, Master’s Program, Politics and Global Security, Arizona State University
- Faculty, Future Security Initiative, Arizona State University
- Adjunct Professor, Joint Special Operations University
- Founder, Narrative Strategies LLC
- President, Military Writers Guild
- Editorial Adviser, PRISM, Irregular Warfare Center, United States Department of War
- Chair, Narrative Strategies Vertical, Homeland Security Today

She is the author of five books:
1. Internarrative Identity
2. Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self
3. Counter-Terrorism: Narrative Strategies
4. Plato’s Fear
5. Narrative Warfare

And Editor of two books:
1. Soft Power on Hard Problems: Strategic Influence in Irregular Warfare
2. Dangerous Narratives: Warfare, Strategy, Statecraft

In addition to her books, Dr. Maan’s articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Homeland Security Today, Special Operations Forces News, Real Clear Defense, The Strategy Bridge, Small Wars Journal, Defense and Intelligence Norway, Stars and Stripes, The Indian Defense Review, The Indian Military Review, Narrative and Conflict: Explorations in Theory and Practice, Philosophical Practice, and other academic and military strategy journals world-wide.

Awards:
2019 Most innovative Campaign to Forward Mission, Homeland Security Today
2025 Trailblazer Award, Homeland Security Today

Dr. Maan's Amazon page can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001KH6DOY/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=4fb388cf-7fc4-4f99-9131-25ac1e0ed318&ref_

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