Deepak Tripathi

DEEPAK TRIPATHI, PhD, FRHistS, FRAS, is a British historian with reference to global politics and America in the world. He is the author of a Middle East quartet of books that includes "Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing US and Soviet Wars" (Springer, 2023), and "Imperial Designs: War, Humiliation and the Making of History" (2013), "Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism" (2011) and "Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan" (2010), published by the Potomac imprint of the University of Nebraska Press. Earlier, he spent a long career as a journalist (1974-2000), primarily with the BBC. He writes for History News Network (George Washington University), among a range of periodicals.