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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
Jonathan Blitzer, Staff writer, The New Yorker, 2021 Emerson Fellow at N
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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.
Dr. John P. Sullivan was a career police officer, now retired after 30 years.
Retired US Army officer with multiple combat deployments, host of the podcasts Revolution in Military Affairs and War on the Rocks' Soldier Pulse, and author of Conflict Realism: Understanding the Causal Logic of Modern War and Warfare. He has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Reading.