Joseph Englehardt is a retired U.S. army colonel and a former international peacekeeper with over 35 years’ experience in the Middle East. He was U.S. defense attaché in Cairo. He also served in Tehran, Ankara, and Beirut. Mr. Englehardt was the director of Middle East studies at the U.S. Army War College and military adviser to the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs. In his last posting in Cairo, he was the representative of the director general of the Multinational Force and Observers, overseeing implementation of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel from 1998 to 2004.