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Steve Miska served as an officer in the United States Army for 25 years before retiring in
2015. He joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2022 to implement the PACT Act, the largest expansion of veteran healthcare in over a generation, helping veterans deal with toxic exposures from burn pits, agent orange, and other dangers. From 2011 to 2012, Steve served in the White House as Director for Iraq on the National Security Council. During his second of three combat tours in Iraq, Steve led a team that established an underground railroad from Baghdad to Amman to the United States for dozens of foreign military interpreters who supported U.S. troops in-country. Since then, he has written extensively about the need to protect soft networks ...more

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Baghdad Underground Railroad: Saving American Allies in Iraq

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Soft Targets (Modern Military Memoirs)

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Study Guide: Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer (SuperSummary)

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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945

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