Oxford Analytica, Oxford, U. K. 2003-2005 Military and Foreign Policy Analyst jfk school of Government, International Security Program

The Brookings Institution Ph: 202-797-6042

Washington, DC 20036-2188 Fax: 202-797-2481

Professional

The Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Washington, DC

Founded research and analysis center at world’s biggest thinktank, exploring changes

in war and implications for American security, military fellows program and distinguished

speaker series. Grew program from 2 people into multi-million dollar 36 person research

Center.
Senior Fellow and Director, Project on U.S. Policy towards the Islamic World 2003-2006

Founded and managed policy program on U.S-Muslim world relations, including the launch and development of visiting fellow program, analysis paper series, book series, policymaker task force, and a global leaders conference series, The US-Islamic World Forum. Led fundraising efforts that resulted in over $12 million for activities and the first ever international Brookings office.

Military and Foreign Policy Analyst

Doctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Panel Coordinator: Nuclear Security in the Former USSR, U.S. Nuclear Defense Strategy
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Balkans Task Force, Washington, DC 1998-9

Action Officer: Bosnia, Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission, Stability Pact (summers)

OSD representative at Stability Pact Summit in Sarajevo, attended by 30 heads of state

Commendations: DoD Award for Excellence, Joint Meritorious Unit Award

Special Assistant: Peacebuilding: Legacies and Strategies project for UN (part-time)

Field research mission, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia

Duke University, Talent Identification Program, Durham, NC 1994-6

Instructor: International Relations, Teaching Assistant: Strategic Game Theory (summers)

Academic

Focus: International Relations and Security Studies

Awards: Harvard University Merit Scholarship, Macarthur Transnational

Security Fellowship, Charles Sumner Dissertation Prize

Activities: Harvard Colloquium on International Affairs Coordinator,

Teaching Fellow, Thesis Advisor, Graduate Student Council Representative

Investigator, Africa Research Program

Princeton University, A.B. Phi Beta Kappa 1997

Major: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Activities: WWS Advisory Committee, International Center Language Tutor
European University Center for Conflict Resolution, Schlaining, Austria 1995

Certification in Conflict Resolution, Field Research in Hungary, Slovenia

Activities, Memberships, and Various Honors

Defense Policy Task Force Coordinator –Obama-Biden-08; CNN “New Guard” Next Generation of Newsmakers; Council on Foreign Relations -Term Member, Advisory Committee for the CFR Special Report on Afghanistan and Special Report on Genocide Prevention and UN Reform; Coordinator-Task Force on US-Muslim World Policy, Kerry Edwards 2004; Council on Emerging National Security Affairs; Alumni of the Year, Duke Talent Identification Program; Truman National Security Project-Fellow; Steering Committee-Princeton WWS 75^th Anniversary; Arab-Western Summit of Skills, Board Member; Tulane World Affairs Council, Board Member; Named “Guru of the Week by Financial Times; Cited for “Best Writing on the entire Internet” by The Browser, Named Top 100 Global Thinker by Foreign Policy; Named one of top 100 Most influential people in Defense by Defense News; Named one of America’s Top 100 Innovators by Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery.

Named by American Political Science Association as the year’s best book on U.S. national policy

Named Book of the Year by Counterpunch, Voted among year’s top 5 books in international affairs by the Gelber Prize, Businessweek “Top Ten Summer Read”
Children At War (Pantheon Press, 2005)

2006 RFK Memorial Book of the Year Award, Distinguished Honors

Documentary version “Child Warriors” broadcast on A&E/the History Channel in 2008.
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21^st Century (Penguin, January 2009)

New York Times best-seller; Financial Times Book of the Year. Named to US Navy, US Army, US Air Force and Royal Australian Navy official reading lists.

Named to US Army and US Navy Reading lists

“War of the Machines: What is the Real Story of Robotic Weaponry,” in Roman Schmidt-Radefeldt, Automatisierung und Digitalisierung des Krieges (Nomos, 2012), p. 23-33.

“Robots at War,” in Hew Strachan, The Changing Character of War (Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 333-356.

“The Future of Navy Aviation,” in Erik Hildebrandt, Fly Navy: Celebrating the First Century of Navy Aviation (Clear Hot Media, 2011).

“Wired for War,” in George Gilliam, The State of the US Military (University of Virginia, 2011), p. 150-176.

“The Future of War,” in Gerhard Dabringer, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Unmanned Systems, (Schutz and Hilfe, 2011), p. 71-86.

“Strange Brew: Private Military Contractors and Humanitarianism.” in Andrew Lakoff, Disaster and the Politics of Intervention ( Columbia University Press, 2010), p. 70-99.

“To Win the "War on Terror," We Must First Win the "War of Ideas": Here's How,” in Richard Clarke ed., The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2008, p. 212-222.

“Restoring America’s Good Name: Improving Strategic Communications with the Islamic World.” in Joseph McMillan, In the Same Light as Slavery: Building a Global Antiterrorist Consensus (National Defense University Press, 2007).

“ L’Idustria Militare Privata e I Nuovi Mercenari,” in Fabrio Armao e Anna Caffarena, Introduzione al Mondo Nuovo. (Guerni Studio, 2006). 3

“The New Children of Terror,” in James Forest, ed. The Making of a Terrorist (Praeger, 2005).

“Foreword,” in John Paden, Muslim Civic Cultures and Conflict Resolution: The Challenge of Democratic Federalism in Nigeria (Brookings Press, 2005).

“HIV/AIDS and International Conflict,” in Andrew Mack, ed. The Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace in the 21^st Century (Oxford University Press, 2005).

“How Does the Internet Actually Work?” Medium, January 17, 2014.

“All this Cyber Stuff,” Medium, January 16, 2014.

“Cybersecurity and Cyberwar,” Washington Post.com, January 14, 2014.

“The Scariest Thing About Cybersecurity is How Unprepared We Are.” Vice, January 13, 2014.

“How Scared Should You Be of CyberWar? Popular Mechanics, January 10, 2014.

“What About Deterrence in an Age of Cyberwar? Armed Forces Journal, January 9, 2014.

“Defense Technology,” Great Decisions, January 2014.

“The State, the Internet, and Cybersecurity,” Korea Business Review, January 8, 2014.

“Exercise is Good For You,” Armed Forces Journal, January 8, 2014

“Cybersecurity is for the C Suite, not Just the IT Crowd,” Fortune, January 7, 2014.

“Everyone Needs A Cyber Textbook,” NextGov, January 3, 2014.

“Shiver me Interwebs: What Can (Real) Pirates Us About Cybersecurity? Slate, January 2, 2014.

“Drones, Science Fiction, and Cybercrime,” TED blog, November 20, 2013.

“From Fuzzy to Focus: An Agenda for Strategic Landpower in the 21^st Century,” Armed Forces Journal, November 2013.

“What the Robotics Revolution means and Where to Next? Luftkrigsskolens Skriftserie, Fall 2013.

“Bad Idea for the Pentagon’s Idea Shop,” War on the Rocks, October 29, 2013.

“Game of Drones,” Estadao, October 26, 2013.

“What Churchill Can Teach Us About the Coming Era of Lasers, Cyborgs, and Killer Drones.” Foreign Policy, October 23, 2013.

“La Guerre Connectee: les Implications de la Revolution Robotique,” Politique Etrangere, Automne 2013, p. 91-104.

“Forward: Gamechangers --Disruptive Technologies and US Defense Strategy.” CNAS working paper, September 2013.

“Defense Strategy and Technologies in the 21st Century Wars,” The Glocal, August 21, 2013.

“Lessons on Defense Strategy from the Interwar Years,” Armed Forces Journal, August 2013.

“China’s Carrier 2.0: What We Now Know and What We Can Now Guess.” Defense One, August 5, 2013.

“Loose Lips Sink Ships,” But What About Cybersecurity Leaks, Defense One, July 17, 2012

“New Technologies and War,” International Review of the Red Cross, June 2013, p. 467-482.

“Die Zukunft is schon da,” Internationale Politik, May 2013, p 8-14.

“At a Dollar a Shot, Lasers Bring Down Costs,” ECSSR Report, April 16, 2013.
“Global Swarm,” Foreign Policy, March 12, 2013.

“The Predator Comes Home: A Primer on Domestic Drones,” Brookings Policy Paper, March 13, 2013.

“A Military Medal for Drone Strikes, Makes Sense.” Washington Post-Outlook, February 17, 2013.

“Obama, Own Your Secret Wars,” NY Daily News-Sunday, February 17, 2013.

“An Obama Doctrine on the New Rules of War,” Brookings Institution, January 18, 2013.

“Inside China’s Secret Arsenal.” Popular Science, January 2013.

“Five Reasons We Should All Care About the Robots Revolution.” Geo International, December 2012.

“The Robotics Revolution, Canada International Council, December 2012.

“The Cyber Terror Bogeyman,” Armed Forces Journal, November 2012.

“l’Homme qui murmurait à l’oreille des militaires américain,” L'Hebdo, October 31, 2012.

“Tell US the One About the Robots, Mr. President.” Foreign Policy, October 23, 2012.

“부작으로 발표된 것이며, 원문 (“Sequestration and What it Might Mean for American Military Power, Asia, and the Flashpoint of Korea”) East-West Institute, Issue Briefing, October 12, 2012.

“Separating Sequestration Fact from Fiction: After Action Report, Time.com, September 28, 2012.

“A Year After Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, No Harm Done.” CNN.com, September 20, 2012.

“The Cracked Crystal Ball: The Problem with Predicting Sequestration and Defense Jobs,” Brookings 21CDI Report, July 31, 2012.

“Baby Steps: The Drone Industry's Code of Conduct Skips Over Key Questions,” The Atlantic, July 19, 2012.

“The Changing Locales of Conflict,” International Humanitarian Law, June 2012.

“The Ocean’s 11 of Cyber Strikes,” Armed Forces Journal, May 2012.

“Mords-Maschinen,” Technology Review (German), April 2012.

“The Evolution of the IED,” Armed Forces Journal, February 2012.

“Do Drones Undermine Democracy,” New York Times Sunday Review, January 22, 2012.

“The Arsenal of Democracy and How to Preserve It: Key Issues in Defense Industrial Policy,” Brookings 21CDI Report, January 2012.

“When RoboCop replaces Sergeant Jackson,” Canadian International Council Journal, January 2012.

“Warum Es Uns Alle Interessieren Sollte Dass Das Militar Roberter Liebt,” Geo, January 2012.

“The Future of Land Wars: Intense, HighTch, Urban, and Coastal,” AOL Defense, November 30, 2011.

“The Real Defense Budget Questions,” Politico, July 22, 2011.

“A Defense Policy Vision, Armed Forces Journal, June 2011.

“Generation Isolation,” Diplomacy, June 2011, p. 89-94.

“Waging War with Robots,” Forbes, May 2011.

“The Future of National Security, By the Numbers,” Joint Forces Quarterly, April 2011.

“Drones Don’t Die: Military Robots Now Play A Key Role On Modern day Battlefield,” Military History, July 2011, p. 66-69.

“U-Turn: Unmanned Systems Could be Casualties of Budgetary Pressures,” Armed Forces Journal, April 2011.

“The Marine Corps Is All Right,” Armed Forces Journal, March 2011.

“D.C.'s New Guard: What Does the Next Generation of American Leaders Think?” Brookings Foreign Policy Report, March 2, 2011.

“Who America’s Next Generation Wants To Be,” UpFront, February 22, 2011.

“Battlefields of the Future,” SudDeutsche Zeitung, February 4, 2011

“Do Quote Me,” Armed Forces Journal, February 2011.

“Tough Times: The New British Security Strategy and the Lessons for U.S. Policymakers,” Armed Forces Journal, December 2010.

“The Ethics of Killer Apps: Why Is It So Hard To Talk About Morality When It Comes to New

Military Technology?” Journal of Military Ethics, vol. 9, no. 4, 2010, p. 299-312

“Writing About Defense, But at What Price?” Up Front, December 13, 2010.

“Factories to Call Our Own: How to Understand Washington’s Ideas Industry.” Washingtonian, August 2010.

“Thought Leaders,” Washingtonian, August 2010.

“America 2021: The Military and the World,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Summer 2010.

“War of the Machines.”Scientific American, July 2010, p. 56-63.

“Don’t Ask. Tell.” Newsweek, June 14, 2010.

“Don’t Make a Big Deal of Ending ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’: Lessons from U.S. Military Allies on Allowing Homosexuals to Serve.” Brookings Institution Foreign Policy Studies Report, May 2010

“We, Robot: The Future of Unmanned Systems on the Battlefield, Slate, May 19, 2010.
“How the US Military Can Win the Robots Revolution,” Popular Mechanics, May 2010.
“Nuclear Security: Let’s Make it Real,” UpFront, April 9, 2010.

“The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21^st Century,” The Reporter –Judge Advocate General’s Corps, April 2010, Vol. 36, p. 180-88.

“Meet the Sims…and Shoot Them: The Rise of Militainment.” Foreign Policy, March 2010.

“The Rise of Robotic Warfare,” Military History, March 2010, p. 12-13.

“Robotique et Adversaires Irreguliers,” Défense & Sécurité Internationale, Mars 2010, p. 78-82.

“Will Foreign Drones One Day Attack the U.S.?” Newsweek, February 28, 2010

“Robotique: La révolution est en marche,” Défense & Sécurité Internationale, N.55, Janvier 2010, p. 34-36.

“Fear the Reaper,” Monocle, December 2009, p. 64.

“A Revolution Once More: Unmanned Systems and the Middle East,” Future Horizons, November 2009, p. 83-87.

“War Games,” FHM, November 2009.
“Wired for War: the Future of Military Robots,” Wired-UK, August 28, 2009.

“Fueling the Balance: A Defense Energy Strategy Primer,” Brookings Foreign Policy Studies Report , no. 17, August 2009.

“La Revolución de la Robótica y el Conflicto en el siglo XXI: Bienvenidos Hoy, al Campo de Batalla del Mañana,” Air & Space Power Journal - Español , Segundo Trimestre 2009, p. 4-15.

“Tactical Generals: Leaders, Technology, and the Perils of Battlefield Micromanagement,” Air and Space Power Journal, Summer 2009.

“Attack of the Drones,” The National (UAE), June 27, 2009.

“The Rise of the Tactical General,” Armed Forces Journal, June 2009.

“Gaming the Robot Revolution,” Slate, May 22, 2009.
“Asimov’s Laws Are Total BS,” Gizmodo, May 19, 2009.
“We’re Inventing the Future,” Washingtonian Magazine, May 2009.
“Humans and Hardware,” Marine Times, March 23, 2009.
“Robots and the Rise of 'Tactical Generals,’” Defense News, March 9, 2009.

“Military Robots and the Laws of War.” The New Atlantis, No. 23, Winter 2009, p. 25-45.

“Os Novos Filhos da Guerra,” Air & Space Power Journal, Vol. XX, no. 3, Fall 2008, p. 4-16.

“Militares Privados: Beneficios Vs Politica Publica.” Politica Exterior, Septiembre 2008, p. 65-78.

“Outsourcing the Fight,” Forbes, June 6, 2008.

“How To Be All That You Can Be: A Look At The Pentagon’s Five Step Plan For Making Iron Man Real,” Brookings, May 2, 2008.

“The Coming Surge: While Some Welcome Additional Troops, Equipment, Retention Rates Could Suffer

Defense News, January 29, 2007.

“The Law Catches Up to Private Militaries, Embeds,” DefenseTech, January 3, 2007.

“America, Islam and the 9-11 War,” Current History, December 2006, p. 415-422.

“The 9-11 War Plus 5” Brookings Analysis Paper, #10, September 2006. Also published in Turkish Policy Quarterly, Volume 5, No. 3, Fall 2006.

“Mike Tyson and the Hornet's Nest: Military Lessons of the Lebanon Crisis,” The Brookings Institution, August 1, 2006

“Humanitarian Principals, Private Military Agents,” Monitoring Trends, Humanitarian Policy Group Monograph, January 2006. also published in the Brown Journal of World Affairs, Fall/Winter 2006, p. 105-122.

“Child Soldiers: The New Faces of War,” American Educator, Winter 2005, p. 28-37.

“Mercenaries,” Encarta 2006 (Microsoft).

“L‘Idustra Militare Private E I Nuovi Mercenari,” Biblioteca Dealla Liberta, December 2005, pp. 51-62.

“Outsourcing War,” Foreign Affairs, March 1, 2005, p. 119-132.

“Western Militaries Confront Child Soldiers Threat,” Jane’s Intelligence Review, January 2005 (cover story)

“Too Young to Kill,” Newhouse News, January 9, 2005.

“Privatization: Corporate Warriors” Perspectives on Work –Journal of the Industrial Relations Research Association, Winter 2005, p. 32-34.

“Talk is Cheap: Getting Serious About Preventing Child Soldiers,” Cornell International Law Journal, Volume 37, 2004, p. 561-583.

“Wurzeln der Wut,” Financial Times Deutschland, September 9, 2004.

“Lutando Contra Criancas-Solados,” Brazilian Military Review, Fall 2004, p. 16-20.

“Should Humanitarians Use Private Military Services?” Humanitarian Affairs Review, Summer 2004, p. 14 -18.

“Les Nouveaux Mercenaires,” Le Monde, May 27, 2004.

“The War On Terrorism: The Big Picture.” Parameters, Summer 2004, pp. 141-48.

“Outsourcing the War.” Salon, April 16, 2004.

“War, Profits, and the Vacuum of Law: Privatized Military Firms and International Law.”

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Spring 2004. pp. 521-550.

“The Humanitarian Transformation: Expanding Global Intervention Capacity,” Survival ,

Spring 2004, pp. 77-99.
“Ninos Soldados.” Hispano American Military Review, March 2004, p. 76-80.

“The Crisis within the Crisis,” Al Jazeera, August 26, 2003.

“Peacekeepers, Inc.” Policy Review, June 2003, p. 59-70.

“Fighting Child Soldiers.” Military Review, June 2003.

“America Slams the Door Shut.” Foreign Affairs, May 2003, p. 8-14.

“The Ultimate Military Entrepreneur.” MHQ: Military History Quarterly, Spring 2003, p. 6-15.

“New Thinking on Transatlantic Security: Terrorism, NATO, and Beyond.” Weltpolitik, January 15, 2003.

“Pakistan’s Madrassahs: Ensuring a System of Education not Jihad.”

for International Security.” International Security, Vol. 26, Winter 2001, p. 186-220.

“Bosnia 2000: Phoenix or Flames?” World Policy Journal, Vol.17, Spring 2000, p. 31-37.

“The Thucydides Tapes.” PS: Political Science & Politics, Sept. 1999, p. 596-603.

“America and the Greek Revolution.” Paralos, Summer 1996, p. 51-57.

“Finally, Obama Breaks His Silence,” Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2013.

“Cost Cutting Breeds Counterfeits in US Weapons,” Global Times, May 30, 2012.
“The Future of Naval Aviation: This Century’s Naval Aviation Pioneers Flying Unmanned Aircraft,” Washington Post, December 4, 2011.

“Millennial Generation the Next Big Thing,” CNN.com, March 24, 2011.

“The End of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: A Long Time Coming, But No More Time to Waste.” Brookings Up Front, December 22, 2010.

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on Constitution Day, Brookings UpFront, September 17, 2010.

“A Disappointing Defense Review,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 2, 2010.

“New Year’s Resolutions for the Pentagon,” Washington Examiner, Dec. 22, 2009.

“Video Game Veterans and the New American Politics,” Washington Examiner, November 17, 2009.

“How to Steal From Our Troops: The Annual Defense Budget Raid,” Washington Examiner, October 20, 2009.

“From Cropdusting to Counterinsurgency?” Washington Examiner, September 22, 2009.

“Fueling Our Security: The Need for a Defense Energy Strategy,” Washington Examiner, August 25, 2009.

“Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Chinese Aircraft Carrier,” Washington Examiner, July 28, 2009.

“The Biggest Loser? Our Dangerous Defense Policy Addiction,” Washington Examiner, July 1, 2009.

“The Damning Paradox of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Washington Examiner, June 2, 2009.
“A Defence Force of Terminators is Almost Here,” Sydney Morning Herald, May 11, 2009.

“American Killing Machines,” Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2009.

“Steering LCS off the Shoals,” Defense News, May 19, 2008.

“Train and Protect Those Who Serve Us,” Miami Herald, April 8, 2008

“Break the Blackwater Habit,” Washington Post Outlook, October 8, 2007.
“Sure He’s Got Guns for Hire, But They’re Just not Worth It,” Washington Post, October 7, 2006.
“War Names,” The Asian Age (New Delhi, India), August 23, 2006.
“Them’s Fighting Words.” Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2006.
“A Run for the Border,” Washington Post, July 9, 2006.
“Responsibility of a Journalist,” The Peninsula (Doha, Qatar), January 23, 2006.
“Mercenari Della Guerra Privatizzata,” 24 Ore (Italy), November 20, 2005.
“A Fitting End to a Terrorist (Too Bad No One Noticed),” Al Hayat, September 4, 2005.
“The Tragic Challenge of Child Soldiers,” USA Today, March 31, 2005.
“Terrorists Must be Denied Child Recruits,” The Financial Times, January 19, 2005.
“Too Young to Kill,” Newhouse News Service, January 9, 2005.
“The Contract the Military Needs to Break.” Washington Post, September 12, 2004.
“Nation Builders and Low Bidders in Iraq.” The New York Times, June 15, 2004.
“Outsourcing Interrogation: The Legal Vacuum.” The Friday Times (Pakistan), May 10, 2004.
“Above the Law.” The Guardian, May 3, 2004.
“Above Law, Above Decency.” Los Angeles Times, May 2, 2004.
“The Dogs of War Go Corporate.” The London News Review, March 19, 2004.

“Guidelines for Improving Public Diplomacy.” Daily Star (Beirut), February 28, 2004.

“Arguments Against Federalization Flimsy.” Baltimore Sun, November 7, 2001.

U.S. National Intelligence Council, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Army, U.S. State Department, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, Veterans Administration, U.S. Air Force Keystone conference, U.S. Army National Guard, Central Intelligence Agency, European Union, 21^st Century Visions of Governance Project, International Studies Association, American Political Science Association, International Security Forum (Switzerland), International Security Studies-ISA, Carnegie Council,. Council on Foreign Relations, East West Center, Atlantic Council, The Heritage Foundation, World Affairs Council, Pawtuxet Defense Forum, National Contract Management Association, Quandt-BMW Foundation (Munich), United Nations Association, Harvard University, Princeton University, American University, Carnegie Mellon University, Tulane University, Georgetown University, New York University, Norwich University, University of Turin (Italy), Idaho State University, University of Westminster (London), Hertie School of Government (Berlin), University of Copenhagen, California-State Bakersfield, Air Force Academy, Air War College, Army War College, Naval War College, West Point, Vanderbilt University, Rowan University, St. Mary’s College, Miami University, Ohio State University, Ohio Wesleyan, University of South Carolina, Swarthmore College, Claremont Mckenna College, Drexel University, National Defense University, U.S. Army War College, U.S. Army Judge Advocate School, Koerber Foundation-Bergedorf Roundtable, U.S. Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, Air Force National Security Forum, Maxwell Air Force Base, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton Air Force Base, Marine Corps University.

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