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Commander
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
Gen. Anthony J. Cotton is the Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb...(read more)
Director, Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center
U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
Major General AnnMarie K. Anthony serves as Director of the Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operation...(read more)
Director, Plans and Policy (J5)
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
Rear Adm. Thomas R. “TR” Buchanan grew up in a Navy family. He is a native of Vallejo, California an...(read more)
Senior International Defense Researcher
RAND
RAND
Mark Cozad is a senior international defense researcher at RAND. Since arriving at RAND, he has led ...(read more)
Fellow, Missile Defense Project
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Masao Dahlgren is a fellow with the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and Internat...(read more)
Professor
Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at The Australian National University
Strategic & Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) at The Australian National University
Professor Stephan Frühling teaches and researches at the Strategic and Defence Centre of The Austral...(read more)
Deputy Director of Global Space Operations
U.S. Space Command
U.S. Space Command
Rear Admiral Hines is a native of Columbus, Ohio. She received her commission through the Limited Du...(read more)
Director, Missile Defense Project; Senior Fellow, Defense and Security Department
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Thomas Karako is the director of the Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow with the Defense an...(read more)
Professor, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
Mara Karlin, PhD is a senior executive and national security leader with two decades of experience s...(read more)
Lieutenant Governor
Nebraska
Nebraska
Lieutenant Governor Joe Kelly was sworn in as Nebraska’s 42nd Lieutenant Governor on January 5, 2023...(read more)
Vice President & Senior Director
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Matthew Kroenig is vice president and senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for...(read more)
Head, Directorate for Defense Strategy, Counter-Proliferation, and Strategic Foresight
French Ministry for the Armed Forces
French Ministry for the Armed Forces
Bertrand Le Meur was appointed as Head of the Directorate for Defence Strategy, Counter-Proliferatio...(read more)
Deputy Director Nuclear Policy
UK Ministry of Defense
UK Ministry of Defense
Garret Martin joined the Ministry of Defence in 2001, having previously worked in the Houses of Parl...(read more)
President, Communications Systems
L3Harris Technologies
L3Harris Technologies
Samir “Sam” B. Mehta is President of the Communication Systems segment and leads Strategic Collabora...(read more)
Principal
The Scowcroft Group
The Scowcroft Group
A Principal of The Scowcroft Group, Franklin C. Miller provides clients both strategic and tactical ...(read more)
Director, Perspectives on Modern War
U.S. Naval War College
U.S. Naval War College
CDR Daniel Post is a Permanent Military Professor assigned to the Strategy and Policy Department at ...(read more)
Senior Analyst
National Security Archive, George Washington University
National Security Archive, George Washington University
Dr. Svetlana Savranskaya is a Senior Analyst at the Archive and since 2001 the director of the Archi...(read more)
Professor, University of Oregon; and
President, Decision Research
President, Decision Research
Dr. Paul Slovic, a founder and President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the Uni...(read more)
Director, Capability and Resource Integration (J8)
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)
Robert “Bob” Taylor is the Director of the Capability and Resource Integration Directorate, United S...(read more)
Director
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Stephen Winchell joined DARPA as its 24th Director in May 2025.
Prior to this appointment, he led...(read more)