The Future of War Team

article | September 10, 2014

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The Future of War project is managed by a team of staff and fellows based at New America, including journalists, legal scholars, former military officials, policy experts and others. At Arizona State University, the project is guided by the newly created Center on the Future of War.

New America’s Future of War team includes:

Peter Bergen, Co-Director of the Future of War project, Vice President at New America and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, the author of best-selling books about al-Qaeda, including Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad

Rosa Brooks, Professor at Georgetown University School of Law, former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Sharon Burke, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy and former Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security

Alan Davidson, New America's Vice President for Technology Policy and Strategy and Director of the Open Technology Institute, former Director of Public Policy for Google in the Americas

Christopher Fussell, senior fellow with the International Security Program at the New America Foundation and a principal at the McChrystal Group. He has spent the past 15 years as an officer in the Navy SEAL Teams.

Shane Harris, Senior Writer at Foreign Policy magazine and the author of the forthcoming @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex and The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State

David Kilcullen, Senior Fellow at New America and former Special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 2007-2009, Senior Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq in 2007, the author of Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, and Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

Ioannis Koskinas, Senior Fellow with the International Security Program at New America, and CEO of the Hoplite Group. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2011 after a twenty-year career in Special Operations.

Michael Lind, co-founder of New America, former editor/staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The National Interest, author of multiple books including The American Way of Strategy

Tim Maurer, Research Fellow at New America, focusing on cybersecurity, cyberwar and internet security and freedom with publications in Foreign Policy, CNN, and Slate

Sascha Meinrath, founder of New America’s Open Technology Institute and Director of X-Lab, in 2013 named to the “TIME Tech 40: The Most Influential Minds in Tech”

Doug Ollivant, former Director, National Security Council, former counterinsurgency advisor in Afghanistan, and leader of the team that wrote the 2006-7 Baghdad "surge" plan

Matthew Pinsker, Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson and serves as director of the House Divided Project

Tom Ricks, Senior Advisor at New America and former Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter, author of best-selling books about the U.S. military including Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Daniel Rothenberg, Co-Director of the Future of War Project, Future of War Fellow at New America, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, and Co-Editor of Drone Wars

Peter W. Singer, Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America, named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, author of Corporate Warriors, Children at War and Wired for War

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America, former Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, former head of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, and author and editor of six books including A New World Order

Michael Waltz, senior national security fellow with the New America Foundation, and president of Metis Solutions. He commanded a U.S. Army Special Forces unit in the reserve component with multiple deployments to Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Dan Ward, non-resident fellow at New America. A bestselling author and expert on military tech and innovation, whose work has been cited by the White House and British Parliament, he served more than 20 years as an acquisition officer with the US Air Force.

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