Debra L. Cagan is an American stateswoman and a former U.S. foreign policy

Foreign policy

A country's foreign policy, also called the foreign relations policy, consists of self-interest strategies chosen by the state to safeguard its national interests and to achieve its goals within international relations milieu. The approaches are strategically employed to interact with other countries...

 liaison. Her most notable public role was that of an adviser to former United States president George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

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Government positions

• Senior Counselor for Coalition Affairs.

• Political adviser for SACT and USJFCOM.

• Senior Coordinator for Nuclear and Nonproliferation Policy, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Department of State, United States, 1996.

• Director of Policy and Regional Affairs within the State Department for Russia and the Newly Independent States, 1998.

• Office Director, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, the State Department, 2001.

• Political Adviser to Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, 2005.

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Coalition and Multinational Operations (to Defense Secretary Robert Gates), 2007.

• State Advisor for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP)

Position on Iran

Cagan gained notoriety after the Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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 newspaper claimed that during a meeting with visiting British MPs, she stated that "I hate all Iranians

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

." She then purportedly accused Britain of "dismantling" the Anglo-US-led coalition in Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 by pulling troops out of Basra

Basra

Basra is the capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq near Kuwait and Iran. It had an estimated population of two million as of 2009...

 too soon.

Advocacy

An advocate of increased westernisation in ex-Soviet states, Cagan met Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 Defence Minister David Kezerashvili on 18 July 2007 to discuss bilateral cooperation. Cagan was one of the first to establish the Georgia Train and Equip Program

Georgia Train and Equip Program

The Georgia Train and Equip Program was an American-sponsored 18-month, $64-million program aimed at increasing the capabilities of the Georgian armed forces by training and equipping four 600-man battalions with light weapons, vehicles and communications...

 (GTEP), which has allegedly improved the process of development in Georgia’s professional army. She has also visited and conversed with Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

n and Macedonian

Republic of Macedonia

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officials, on behalf of the United States. Cagan toured Eastern European and central Asian countries seeking increased troop provisions in Iraq, to bolster the image of a coalition.

External links

• Debra L Cagan's participation in Project Vinca as recorded in 'Lessons for Securing Civil Nuclear Material Stockpiles'
• Coalition of the Reluctant in the NY Times, October 15, 2005, on coalition building during the Bush Administration
• Letter from Lincoln P. Bloomfield Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs 2001-5 in the NY Times, October 19., 2007, on Cagan's service