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Kagusthan Ariaratnam is a defense analyst with over 25 years of experience who was formerly a child soldier of the Tamil Tigers. From 1990 to 2010, he worked with several international intelligence agencies in a substantial capacity. In 1992, Ariaratnam was appointed as an intelligence officer of the Tamil Tigers’ Military Intelligence Service. Between 1992 and 1995, he oversaw intelligence for the Sea Tigers and the Air Tigers, the organization’s rudimentary naval and air wings. Ariaratnam has unique knowledge of contemporary counterintelligence, counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism operations, as he has fought both as an insurgent during the Sri Lankan civil war with the Tamil Tigers and later against the insurgents as a military intelligence analyst with the Directorate of Military Intelligence of the Sri Lankan government. For his contribution to the “Global War on Terrorism,” Ariaratnam received the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies Award in October 2003. He now studies digital journalism at the University of Ottawa and leads Project O Five Ltd.
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