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Luttwak was born in Arad , Romania , and later attended the London School Of Economics and Johns Hopkins University , where he received a doctorate. His first academic post was at the University Of Bath . As Of 2004 , he is a Senior Fellow at the Center For Strategic And International Studies in Washington, D.C. . He has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary Of Defense , the National Security Council , and the U.S. Department Of State . He is a member of the National Security Study Group of the U.S. Department Of Defense , and an associate of the Japan Finance Ministry's Institute of Fiscal and Monetary Policy. Luttwak is a frequent lecturer and Consultant , and has developed a reputation for offbeat proposals intended to provoke thought, for instance suggesting that major powers' attempts to quell regional wars actually make the wars more intense. His book ''Coup d'etat: A Practical Handbook'' is perhaps his best-known work; it has been reprinted numerous times, and translated into 14 languages. ''The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to the Third'' has stirred a lot of controversy among professional historians. Luttwak is seen as an outsider and non-specialist in the field, but his book has raised a lot of questions and created a whole new wave of scholarship on the Roman army and barbarians on the frontier. Luttwak asked simply "How did the Romans defend the frontier?", a question that had been lost in the noise of professional discourse of demographics and economics and sociology. Although most professional historians reject his views on Roman "strategy," his 1976 book has been most useful for provoking discussion. Luttwak, during his childhood, spent many years in Italy , between Palermo , in Sicily , and Milan , as a Refugee . He speaks Italian well and is also a renowned political analyst and historian in that country; he also wrote two books in Italian (co-authored with Susanna Creperio Verratti , political philosopher and journalist): ''Che cos’è davvero la democrazia'' Democracy really Is , 1996 and ''Il libro delle Libertà'' Book of Liberties , 2000. He serves on the editorial boards of '' Geopolitique '' (France), the '' Journal Of Strategic Studies '', and the '' Washington Quarterly ''. He speaks English , French , Italian , and Spanish . BOOKS
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