Recent Career
Cooper was a major contributor to the 1994 book The Scars of War by Hugh McManners, which attempted to compare the ways in which the British Army, the US Army and the Israeli Defence Force motivate their peacetime soldiery and train their special forces. However, Cooper disagreed with many of the book's conclusions, believing that McManners had been selective in his use of examples and personal experiences in order to support an existing view of the subject rather than to present an objective assessment.
Aegis Defence Services, a London based, privately owned, British security and risk management company with overseas offices in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kenya, Nepal and the US, appointed Cooper to be head of civil affairs in Iraq on a one year contract. As a chaplain in the British Army, he had seen active service which led to his being a recognised expert and lecturer in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). His role in Iraq will be to oversee the civil affair programme AEGIS is running as part of its $300 million contract for the US government to provide a security and co-ordination framework for the reconstruction effort in Iraq.
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