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Alan Ned Sabrosky is an American military and political analyst who served as director of the Strategic Studies Institute at the United States Army War College.

Early life and education
Sabrosky earned a Bachelor's degree from East Carolina University in 1969, Master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1971 and 1972, and a Ph.D. also from the University of Michigan in 1976, with a dissertation titled "Why Wide Wars? Capability Distribution, Alliance Aggregation, and the Expansion of Interstate War, 1820–1965".

Career
Sabrosky served in the Marines and held faculty positions at Catholic University and Georgetown University, and at the University of Pennsylvania while working as a research associate at the Foreign Policy Research Institute during the 1970s. In 1981 he became director of FPRI for a year; he then moved to Washington, D.C., and a year after that became Director of Studies at the Army War College, where he received the Superior Civilian Service Award in 1988 and held the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research; he remained there until retirement.

Research and publications
Sabrosky edited ''Blue-Collar Soldiers? Unionization and the U.S. Military'' (1977), a collection of papers from an FPRI conference. In it he argued that "military unions are simply too great a risk for a political democracy [because it would be] unwise to expect unions not to act like unions over the long term, and in doing so call into question the basis of our national security".

In 1985, he edited and contributed an article to Polarity and War: The Changing Structure of International Conflict, published in association with the University of Michigan Correlates of War Project. Distinguishing between "localized wars" between the original belligerents, "expanded wars" that include several belligerents, and enlarged wars that include a major power on both sides of the conflict, he has argued that a conflict escalates when a major power intervenes in a war between a minor state and another major state, and that conflicts are likely to expand more rapidly than they did in the 19th century. In the field of alliance systems, he has also published Alliances in US Foreign Policy: Issues in the Quest for Collective Defense (1988).

In 2009, Sabrosky published an opinion piece titled "Treason, Betrayal and Deceit: The Road to 9/11 and Beyond" in which he argued that the September 11 attacks were a Mossad operation. In 2010, he wrote that "a large majority of American Jews ...espouse a form of political bigamy called dual loyalty", and criticized those who serve in the Israel Defense Forces but not in the U.S. Armed Forces. In responding to the latter article, Daniel Flesch, a former IDF paratrooper, called him a conspiracy theorist. In 2011 the Anti-Defamation League named him as a key figure in anti-Semitic 9/11 conspiracy theories.

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