Dr. Mordechai de Haas is a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Netherlands Army. Mordechai de Haas holds a PhD on Russian security policy. He was an Affiliated Professor and Research Fellow on Russian security policy towards the Middle East at the National Security Studies Centre of Haifa University. Earlier, he was a Full Professor of Public Policy in Kazakhstan. Mordechai served as a soldier with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. As an officer, he held positions at Army Staff, the Royal Netherlands Military Academy, NATO School and the Netherlands Institute of International Relations “Clingendael.” At Defense Staff, he was the editor of the first Netherlands Defense Doctrine.