[1] Mr. Sherman’s last overseas assignment was to Afghanistan for nearly three and a half years as a civilian advisor to numerous operational and strategic military commanders.

In November 2009, he was presented the Department of State Award for Heroism by Secretary Hillary Clinton for assisting in the rescue of wounded American soldiers following an ambush in Afghanistan.

From 2006 to 2007 Sherman worked as the Political Advisor to the First Cavalry Division, the military unit in charge of operations in Baghdad during the planning and implementation of the "surge".

Sherman is a contributor to the Opinion page of The New York Times and The Washington Post and has provided foreign affairs' analysis to the PBS NewsHour,[7] Frontline,[8] and NBC Nightly News, among others.

In November 2008, Sherman published an article in The American Interest outlining how dwindling U.S. leverage needed to be recalibrated to address the shifting political environment in Iraq.