Chief Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter talks about Iran's military might.

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Riter was born into a military family in 1961 in Gain, Seville, Florida. He graduated from Kaiserslautern American High School in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1979, and later from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with a bachelor of arts degree in Soviet history and administrative honors. In 1980, he served as a private in the United States Army. Then in May 1984 he was assigned as an intelligence officer in the United States Marine Corps. He served in this capacity for about 12 years. He worked as a senior naval analyst on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war. Ritter's academic work focused on the Basmachi resistance movement in 1919> Central Soviet Asia during the 1920s and 1930s, and Basmachi commanders Fazil Maxum and Ibrahim Beck. During the Desert Storm, he served as a ballistic missile adviser to General Norman Schwartzkoff. Ritter later worked as a security and military consultant for Fox News. Ritter also according to his interview with Democracy Now! In 2003, he "had a long [formal] relationship with the British Foreign Intelligence Agency MI6.

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