Senior editor at The Atlantic, and the host and co-creator of narrative podcasts Floodlines and Holy Week,  2022 Andrew Carnegie fellow, winner of a Peabody Award, named Journalist of the Year by the Washington Association of Black Journalists, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2024-2025

A national security policy expert who spent more than 30 years in Asia as a practitioner and specializes in Korea and Northeast Asian Security Affairs and irregular, unconventional, and political warfare. He retired as a Special Forces Colonel having served in command and staff positions at all levels in the U.S. Army and USSOCOM.

Applied theorist focusing on future war and conflict, violent non-state actors (VNSAs), and counter-opposing force (C-OPFOR) strategies, past U.S. Army War College Minerva Chair and FBI Academy Futurist in Residence. Currently, Director of Research & Analysis with C/O Futures, LLC and Senior Fellow, Small Wars Journal-El Centro.