Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon (born October 10, 1948) is a

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and classical historian who held the Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. Chair of Military History at the

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, where she taught from 1993 to 2019. She received her doctorate in

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from the

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, for which she won a National Intelligence Book award in 1987. In 1981, she became a

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of the

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. She sat on the editorial boards of the ''

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'' and '' International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence''.

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