Contributors

Safeguarding Seas Volume 50, Issue 2, 2025

DR. ANDRE J. STRIDIRON III, a retired U.S. Navy officer and pilot, is the Pacific Multi-Domain Training and Experimentation Capability program manager for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). He integrates combined, joint and all-domain training and experimentation in the Indo-Pacific. He earned his doctorate in leadership and organizational change from the University of Southern California in 2019 and received the Pacific Fleet Commander’s Civilian of the Year Award in 2020.  Featured on Page 28

CAPT. NOËL BARTLEY is a U.S. Army strategist. She received a master’s degree in public affairs from Brown University. A former signal officer, she has served in various battalion-level positions and as aide-de-camp to the Commandant, U.S. Army Signal School.

CMDR. DANIEL R. POST is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department and co-director of the Perspectives On Modern War course at the U.S. Naval War College. A former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot, he most recently served as a nuclear strike advisor with U.S. Strategic Command.  Featured on Page 38

SPENCER PETERSEN is a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) intelligence officer and U.S. Air Force reservist stationed at the USINDOPACOM Joint Intelligence Operations Center. He received his U.S. Air Force commission in 2011 and served as an intelligence officer, assistant professor and director of operations until 2020, when he joined the DIA. He has extensive experience supporting joint and combined military planning and operations, including with international partners.  Featured on Page 46

DR. SEBASTIAN KEVANY joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii in 2021. He specializes in health policy as it relates to diplomacy, foreign policy, international relations, security and global public health. He has expertise in monitoring and evaluation, cost-effectiveness analysis, diplomacy, national and international security, conflict resolution, and the use of global health engagement to prevent or resolve conflict.  Featured on Page 54

BRIG. BEN MCLENNAN enlisted in the Australian Army Reserve in 1994 and was commissioned in 1999. He is commander of the 3rd Brigade (Armoured Amphibious) and previously commanded infantry platoons, companies, the 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment and the Combat Training Centre. He has been deployed to Afghanistan, the Philippines and Timor-Leste, and completed engagements in France, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, South Korea and the United States. He has a master’s degree in military studies and serves as the Royal Australian Infantry’s deputy head of corps for training.  Featured on Page 56

DONGKEUN LEE is a reservist in the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy and a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He was previously a naval intelligence officer and held military diplomacy positions, including foreign liaison officer at the ROK Navy headquarters.  Featured on Page 62

Prevail Volume 50, Issue 1, 2025

RETIRED REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) ARMY LT. GEN. IN-BUM CHUN holds advisory roles for the National Bureau of Asian Research, the Korea Foundation, the Association of the United States Army, and the Sweden-based Institute for Security and Development Policy. He served as director of U.S. affairs at the South Korean Ministry of National Defense and at all command levels, including the ROK Special Warfare Command.  Featured on Page 38

BRIG. GEN. ONISIVORO COVUNISAQA enlisted in the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) in July 1984 and graduated from Officer Cadet School in 1991. He is the RFMF Commander Land Force and Chief of Staff Territorial Force Brigade. His prior appointments include aide-de-camp to Fiji’s vice president, battalion officer, infantry commander and training major. His honors and awards include the Republic of Fiji 50th Anniversary Independence Medal, the Meritorious Service Decoration and international peacekeeping medals including the Multinational Force and Observers Medal.  Featured on Page 42

LT. GEN. SIMON STUART assumed command of the Australian Army in July 2022. He enlisted in 1987 and was commissioned into the Royal Australian Infantry Corps in 1990. He has experience across leadership, operations, training and program management appointments in Australia and overseas. His honors and awards include Member of the Order of Australia in 2011, the Distinguished Service Cross in 2014 and advancement to Officer of the Order of Australia in 2020. He also has been honored by partner nations including Colombia, the Czech Republic, Indonesia, Japan, Timor-Leste, Uruguay and the U.S.  Featured on Page 46

Next-Generation Threats Volume 49, Issue 4, 2024

REPUBLIC OF KOREA (ROK) ARMY BRIG. GEN. WOO SUK JAE is the Combined Forces Command (CFC) deputy chief of staff for combined and joint plans. He was formerly chief of the ROK Joint Chiefs of Staff operations branch and command and control team, and commanding officer of the ROK 121st Infantry Regiment. Woo also served as an operations officer, planner and chief, a crisis management officer, and security battalion commanding officer. He has a bachelor’s degree in management from the Korea Military Academy, a master’s in politics from Korea University and completed an advanced leadership program at the Seoul National University School of Law.

ROK ARMY COL. JUNG HEE HYOUNG is the CFC strategy chief for combined and joint plans. A former commander of the ROK Army Training Center’s 26th Regiment, she has served as an officer in the ROK Army’s Personnel Command and managed global policy, security cooperation and defense diplomacy policy for the ROK Ministry of National Defense. She has a bachelor’s degree in the English language from Chonnam National University, a master’s in logistics and supply chain management from the Air Force Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in business administration from Myongji University.

ROK ARMY COL. KIM YONG IL is the CFC exercise branch chief. His previous roles include chief of the policy branch in the CFC division commander’s office, chief of staff for the 60th division and infantry brigade commander. He was also a planning officer in the CFC, a situation leader in the National Center for Crisis Management, a battalion commander and officer in the Joint Chiefs of Staff strategic planning division. Kim has a master’s degree in management from the Korea National Defense University.  Featured on Page 32

ROSAURO ANGELO RODRIGUEZ is a global security, investigation and operational risk management executive in the Philippines and the founder and CEO of PAD1925 Consultancy. A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, he develops simulation technology for the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He has a certificate in geopolitics and international relations from the Development Academy of the Philippines and is a doctoral candidate at Bicol University in the Philippines. He has served as a citizen services warden at the U.S. Embassy in Manila and as dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Manuel L. Quezon University in the Philippines.  Featured on Page 36

DR. SHALE HOROWITZ is a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has researched international and ethnic conflict, with an emphasis on East and South Asia; the politics of international trade and finance; and the politics of market transition and institutional change in post-communist countries and East Asia. He has conducted research in China, India, South Korea, Taiwan, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.  Featured on Page 50

Enduring Partnerships Volume 49, Issue 3, 2024

LT. COL. ALEXANDER S. PARK is an Army Fellow at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He began his military career in the Republic of Korea Army in 2001 and joined the Army National Guard of the United States in 2005 through Pennsylvania State University’s Simultaneous Membership Program. As an Active Guard Reserve Army Strategist, he has served as chief of overseas deployment training for the 8th Army at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, as well as a budget officer, plans officer and detachment commander. He graduated from the Basic Strategic Art Program at the U.S. Army War College and earned master’s degrees from Syracuse University in addition to bachelor’s degrees from Pennsylvania State and Korea University in Seoul. Featured on Page 8

Dr. Ganeshan Wignaraja is the professorial fellow in economics and trade at Gateway House in Mumbai, India, and a visiting senior fellow at ODI in London. He is an advisor to the Sri Lankan president and a Geopolitical Cartographer board member. Previous senior roles include research director at the Asian Development Bank Institute, executive director of Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry think tank, visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund and global head of trade and competitiveness at Maxwell Stamp PLC. Wignaraja has consulted for the U.S. Commerce Department, the U.S. State Department and USAID. He has written about macroeconomics, economic development and geoeconomics and has a doctorate degree in economics from Oxford University.  Featured on Page 32

LT. STEPHEN SCHROEDER is a U.S. Navy helicopter pilot serving as an international engagements and partnership liaison for the U.S. Space Command in the Indo-Pacific. He is a member of the Joint Integrated Space Team Pacific, based at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Headquarters in Hawaii, and his operational experience includes two deployments to the Middle East as an aircraft commander aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group. He participated in negotiations for a Space Situational Awareness Data Sharing Agreement with the Philippines and has provided expertise on opportunities in space to partners including Singapore and Thailand. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from the U.S. Naval Academy.  Featured on Page 46 

FALK TETTWEILER is a researcher and analyst in the Research and Policy Analysis Department at the George C. Marshall Center. His work focuses on strategic narratives and the cognitive dimension of strategic competition. He also serves as co-chair in the Emerging Security Challenges Working Group of the Partnership for Peace Consortium. He previously served as deputy director of the Marshall Center’s Plans and Strategy Directorate.  Featured on Page 58

Security Assurances Volume 49, Issue 2, 2024

MAJ. AFUA O. BOAHEMA-LEE is a joint medical planner for the Command Surgeon’s Office of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. She enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in 2004 as a food specialist and was commissioned as a Medical Service Corps officer in 2009. She has extensive experience in medical planning and operations, humanitarian assistance, and team building, and has held leadership positions including commander, medical operations officer and branch chief. She completed a military fellowship with the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology education, a master’s in health care administration from Trident University, and a master’s in defense and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College.
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DR. DEON CANYON, dean of academics and a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI-APCSS), specializes in crisis management, biosecurity, the Pacific Islands region and gray-zone gaming. His cross-disciplinary research focuses on understanding, managing, controlling and preventing complex and dynamic security threats through innovative approaches. He has authored over 240 publications during his 29 years at DKI-APCSS and other U.S. and Australian universities.   

DR. BENJAMIN RYAN is a professor of public health and global initiatives at the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. College of Medicine at Belmont University in Tennessee, with expertise in disaster risk reduction and community resilience. He has assisted organizations such as the United Nations and World Health Organization in addressing disasters and disease, and co-developed a program that has helped over 4,000 communities worldwide prepare for disasters. He previously was an associate professor at DKI-APCSS.  Featured on Page 56