David Wurmser

David Wurmser (born in Switzerland) is an American foreign policy specialist. He served as Middle East Adviser to former US Vice President Dick Cheney, as special assistant to John R. Bolton at the State Department and as a research fellow on the Middle East at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He served in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer at the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

Wurmser has a Ph.D. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Wurmser was listed as a member of the board of advisors of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a group which was involved in the distribution of over 20 million DVDs of the film Obsession in swing states prior to the 2008 US Presidential election. Wurmser is the founder of the Delphi Global Analysis Group, which aims to provide quality, in-depth consulting with a select group of clients to give them a competitive advantage on all affairs related to political risk.

Wurmser has been credited as being one of the main authors of the 1996 report A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, a paper prepared for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. This advocated pre-emptive strikes against Iran and Syria, the removal of Saddam Hussein from Iraq and the abandonment of traditional "land for peace" negotiations with Palestinians.

In 1999, Wurmser wrote Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein (published by AEI Press), which argued that President Clinton's policies in Iraq were failing to contain the country.

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