Kevin M Bache

Having spent my 31 years of life in the Baltimore/Washington Corridor, I am acutely aware of the sometimes soul-crushing/sometimes soul-stirring ebb & flow of politics in Washington, D.C. Believing one can easily begin to make his/her arguments solely on emotive grounds in this climate, I have thus remained ever-vigilant in limiting my interest in government to the study of Foreign Policy: more specifically, the underlying rationale which gives a policy validity. In other words, it is not my concern as to who (or, more pointedly, which party) conceives of and implements the policy; only that any given policy stand up to its own internal rationale.

My educational background is such: University of Maryland - BA in English (Concentration: Rhetoric, Writing, & Language; 01/1996-09/2001); Troy University - Master's in International Affairs/ National Security (09/2003-05/2006), where I took such additional areas of study as International Law and International Economics; The Institute of World Politics: Graduate Certificate in Counterintelligence (09/2007- ). The latter school is noted for its esteemed professorships, each having several decades of "real-world" experience in the field in which s/he teaches, thereby bridging the gap between theory and pragmatism.

As far as writing credentials, I have published two books: the first, "By No One's Leave", was written in 1998, and was largely an exploration as to whether or not I could construct and tell a story; the second, "Iridescent Shadows", is the first installment of a multi-part epic which covers many themes eternally significant to the field of International Relations. Given my many responsibilities, it has taken longer than expected to finish the 2nd, which does not hurt the 1st, as it is enough of a self-contained story to stand on its own. While attending the University of Maryland, College Park, I worked for the student-run newspaper, "The Diamondback". My assignments covered everything from "Front-Page" features to "Commentary". One particular article I wrote on the viability of Nevada's Yucca Mountain as nuclear-waste storage site has been cited in student research papers. It was my second time working for a school newspaper: the first being my high school's newspaper, "The Bear Press".

Most recently, a "memo" I wrote for my "Intelligence & Policy" class in Fall 2007 prompted my then professor and mentor, Kenneth deGraffenreid, whose credentials include "Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive in the National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX)" and "Senior Director of Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council", to ask me to join his American Intelligence and Protective Security: An Advanced Seminar. I now entitle the memo "Memo605: Why Another 9/11 Is Inevitable" ("605" being the number of the class I wrote it for), and hope to publish it here so that more people can understand not only the systemic inefficacies still inherent in the US Intelligence Community, but also see as-example how my arguments appeal to a reader's logic not emotion. An appeal more and more unappreciated in an increasingly-crass pop-culture-centric society.