Professor of International Relations and Director of the International Relations Program at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, author of From Hitler’s Germany to Saddam’s Iraq: The Enduring False Promise of Preventive War and Preventive War and American Democracy, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America, 2016-2017

Former national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, part of two Pulitzer Prize winning teams and author of many bestselling books including Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003-05, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2017

Contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, covering extremism, youth, and national security, best-selling author, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2021-2022

Staff writer at the New Yorker since 2003, author of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, which won the 2013 National Book Award for non-fiction, Guggenheim fellow, Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2017-2018

Former Director for Iraq at the National Security Council during both the Bush and Obama administrations, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2019

Gender Project Director, International Crisis Group, author of Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS, Lipstick Jihad, Honeymoon in Tehran and Iran Awakening which she co-wrote with Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2016-2018

Active duty in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army, former Chief of Plans & Strategy at U.S. Army Cyber Command, Research Fellow at the Center on the Future of War

Award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Foreign Policy, The Economist, and The New Yorker, ASU Future Security Fellow at New America 2020-2021

Journalist, and author of New York Times best-seller Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korean Elite, recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Open Society fellowships ASU Future of War Fellow at New America 2018-2019

Former Chief Strategist in the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau and Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus, author of multiple best-selling books including The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West and Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, Founding Future of War Senior Fellow 2014-2018