Michael Eisenstadt is a Kahn Senior Fellow and director of the Military and Security Studies Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), where he has served since 1989. Prior to joining WINEP, he worked as a military analyst for the U.S. government. He earned a BA in political science from the State University of New York at Binghamton (SUNY Binghamton) and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University. Eisenstadt has traveled widely throughout the Middle East and is recognized as a specialist in Persian Gulf and Arab-Israeli security affairs, Iran, military affairs, and irregular warfare, with extensive publications on these topics.