page_title: Michael Patrick Mulroy
section_title: DASD service
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Patrick Mulroy / DASD service
caption_attribution_description: English: Official photo as DASD
context_page_description: Michael "Mick" Patrick Mulroy is the former United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East serving under Secretary James N. Mattis and Secretary Mark T. Esper. He was appointed in October 2017 and served until December of 2019. He was responsible for representing the United States Department of Defense for defense policy and interagency policy in the Middle East. He is also a retired CIA Paramilitary Operations Officer and a United States Marine.
  After leaving the Pentagon, he co-founded the Lobo Institute, where he co-led the development of a documentary on a child soldier in the Lord's Resistance Army. He also began serving on the board of the nonprofit Grassroots Reconciliation Group that works to rehabilitate former child soldiers, became a special advisor to the United Nations, a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute, and a ABC News National Security Analyst.
context_section_description: The DASD for the Middle East is a member of the Senior Executive Service in the office of the Secretary of Defense.  This individual is responsible for DoD policy and for representing the DoD in the interagency for the countries of Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
  Foreign Policy, and other media, reported that Mulroy accepted the position because then-Defense Secretary Mattis was looking for a “nonpartisan and apolitical individual" who spent a lot of time in conflict areas to fill that office. They continued that "Mulroy, who spent most of his career as a CIA paramilitary operations officer in conflict zones, would depart the department on December 1, 2019, as he had always planned to stay for two years and then move to Montana to work on the group he co-founded, the Lobo Institute." 
  Mulroy was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for his efforts. The citation focuses on his effort to build a comprehensive plan for Yemen, for developing a DoD policy board for Iran and for assisting the White Helmets in Syria to escape before the Syrian government could capture them. He gave the credit to his policy team who were "involved in many of the major national security" issues of the last several years.
caption: Official DoD Photo
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