NEC-SE is an academic and operational policy studies/research institution and think tank providing political/military analyses and assessments of the Near East, adjacent regions, and Middle Eastern affairs for a diverse international clientele representing government and private interests in commemoration of the Americans who were murdered in the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and in recognition of the first responders who continue to suffer and die from health effects arising from the attacks.

NEC-SE provides consulting services in homeland security, national security, security intelligence, and security threat assessment, with long-term planning for strategic, operational, and tactical requirements along the Governance, Security, and Development Lines of Effort. NEC-SE also provides Pro Bono consulting and services in support of vulnerable communities and or businesses that support the long-term NEC-SE and UAA missions.

Additionally, NEC-SE served as the military advisory group for the Assyrian Army in Iraq, which fought in Iraq and Syria against ISIL and ISIS from 2014-2017.  In that capacity, NEC-SE worked in collaboration with Assyrian Army military and civilian leaders and private military contractors to provide tactical, operational, and strategic planning, direction, training, and support for conducting combat and civil affairs operations in tandem with its military mission.

The NEC-SE team has briefed the Office of Secretary of Defense; authored Operation Collective Action (Northern Iraq Clearing Operation); operationally supported CENTCOM and USASOC units; advised the Near East Affairs Iraq and Syria desk at the U.S. State Department; and briefed the National Security Council key staffers on strategic plans for the Near East Region, Southeast Asia, and provided strategic guidance papers and reports to our global partners to include Japan (Five Eyes) the Japanese’s Public Security Intelligence Agency, and Australia (Core-plus member nation of the National Military Bureaus).

From 2015- 2016 NEC-SE provided assessment reports (Japan Informational Reports) to the PUBLIC SECURITY INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PSIA (JAPAN) and briefings to the Japanese Ministry of Interior referencing ISIS operations linked to Japanese nationals and the CCP’s Information Operations to sow divisions between Japan and its allies and how Japan can counter CCp’s attempts to convert their standing Army to a much more tech-heavy capability to expand its influence in Asia.

NEC-SE has also supported Ravens Challenge ASEAN since 2017.  NEC-SE supports the goals of Ravens Challenge to build and shape Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Counter Improvised Explosive Device (CIED), Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) and Counter-Terrorism Capacity Streams for local, national, and regional clients and to Provide Multi-National Dynamics EOD, CIED, CWMD, and Counter-Terrorism Training, collaboration, and information exchanges among military, police, academia, and private agencies and by bringing information from the Iraq and Syria battlefields to the participating commanders and technicians from Thailand and SE Asia at the Challenge.  Sharing the knowledge and lessons learned from the impact of IEDs and other methods of communities in the Middle East has resonance and relevance and allows a more holistic approach to identifying and reduction of capability gaps in the broad spectrum of responses to terrorism and insurgencies that use asymmetric attacks against vulnerable populations.