The following is a recognized Cuba expert who is not affiliated with the Cuba Study Group:   Frank Mora Department of Defense 2500 Defense Pentagon Room 5D435 Washington, DC 20301 (703) 614-0451 frank.mora@osd.mil Frank O. Mora is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Previously, he served as Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College, where he taught courses on strategy, global security, and Latin American and Caribbean defense and security issues. Mora has published over two dozen academic journal articles and book chapters on civil-military relations in Latin America, U.S.-Latin American Relations, drug trafficking, Paraguayan foreign policy, hemispheric security, Latin American political economy, and Cuban politics and military. Among other publications, he is the co-editor of Latin American and Caribbean Foreign Policy (Rowman and Littlefield 2003) and Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.-Latin American Relations (Rowman and Littlefield 1999). Mora served as guest editor and contributor to a special issue of Problems of Post-Communism titled "Cuba: Between Retrenchment and Change” (November-December 2001). During 2002-2003 Mora was Visiting Professor of International Studies and Research Associate at the University of Miami’s Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. He is a contributing editor for the Handbook of Latin American Studies and the Library of Congress, and has worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, Central Intelligence Agency, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) of the National Defense University, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Works by Mora: “Economic Reform and the Military: China, Cuba and Syria in Comparative Perspective.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology vol 44, no 2 (2003): 87-128. Co-authored with Quintan Wiktorowicz. [Reproduced by permission of Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi, © Sage Publications, 2003. “The FAR and Its Economic Role: From Civic to Technocrat-Soldier.” Occasional Paper Series. Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami (June 2004). Home | Text Only | Contact Us | Email This Page 611 Pennsylvania Ave., SE #208 Washington, DC 20003 Tele. 202-544-5088 This Home Page is maintained by the Cuba Study Group. Please send comments to webmaster@cubastudygroup.com