Contributors

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

Strategic Shifts Volume 49, Issue 1, 2024

DR. ALFRED OEHLERS joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in 2007. He previously was an associate professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He earned his doctorate in political economy from the University of Sydney and holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in economics from Macquarie University, Australia. Specializing in the political economy of economic growth and development in the Indo-Pacific, he teaches and writes extensively on a range of issues, many connected with the rapid advances of East and Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific Islands region.  Featured on Page 8

BRAHMA CHELLANEY is a geostrategist, scholar, author and commentator. He is a professor of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi; a Richard von Weizsäcker fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin; and an affiliate with the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College London. He has served as a member of the Policy Advisory Group headed by the foreign minister of India. Before that, he was an advisor to India’s National Security Council, serving as convener of the External Security Group of the National Security Advisory Board.  Featured on Page 20

DR. JINGHAO ZHOU is an associate professor of Asian studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York. His research focuses on Chinese ideology, politics, religion, and U.S.-China relations. He has published dozens of journal and news articles and six books. His latest book, “Great Power Competition as the New Normal of China-U.S. Relations,” published in 2023.   Featured on Page 42

DR. JENNIFER DABBS SCIUBBA is a senior associate (nonresident) with the Hess Center for New Frontiers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a global fellow at the Wilson Center, both in Washington, D.C. In addition to writing academic articles on the politics of population, she is the author of “8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World” and “The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security.” She trained at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense on demographic and environmental issues.   Featured on Page 48

DR. JAKE WALLIS formerly led the Information Operations and Disinformation program with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s (ASPI) International Cyber Policy Centre, where he worked with international government entities, civil society and social media platforms to counter disinformation by state and nonstate actors. His doctorate explored how politically motivated groups mobilize across online networks. He has researched extremist groups’ use of social media under the Australian Army Research and Development Scheme and contributed to NATO’s Innovation Hub. His analysis of large-scale disinformation and propaganda campaigns linked to the People’s Republic of China has been featured in publications worldwide.  Featured on Page 52

Global Resilience Volume 48, Issue 4, 2023

DR. MIEMIE WINN BYRD, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and now a professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii, specializes in U.S.-Myanmar relations, Indo-Pacific economics, organizational development and adult learning. Her work focuses on civil-military operations, interagency collaboration and corporate financial accounting standards. She received a bachelor’s degree in economics and accounting from Claremont McKenna College and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Hawaii. She earned her doctorate in education leadership from the University of Southern California.  Featured on Page 24

DR. SHIGENORI MISHIMA is vice commissioner and chief technology officer of the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) for Japan’s Ministry of Defense. He oversees research and development for the Japan Self-Defense Forces, international equipment and technology cooperation, and advanced technology enhancement among government, industry and academia. He previously directed ATLA’s Department of Technology Strategy and Project Management Division. He has undergraduate and master’s degrees in naval architecture from the University of Tokyo, and a doctorate in hydrodynamics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Featured on Page 40

Defense Transformation Volume 48, Issue 3, 2023

DR. ARNAB DAS  served for over two decades with the Indian Navy and is a retired commander. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi while a uniformed officer. He is the founder and director of the Maritime Research Center, which is developing a unique underwater domain awareness. He also runs Nir Dhwani Technologies, a startup that provides maritime security solutions, and marine conservation support and services. He has led research projects at IIT Delhi, Tokyo University and the National University of Singapore’s Acoustic Research Lab, and for the Indian Navy after his retirement. He has written over 70 reports, two book chapters and a book.  Featured on Page 24

CAPT. PATRICK HINTON is Chief of the General Staff’s visiting fellow in the Military Sciences Research Group at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), an independent think tank in the United Kingdom. He is an officer in the British Army’s Royal Artillery and has worked with ground-based air defense systems and remotely piloted air systems. Since joining the Army in 2014, he has held appointments including troop commander, executive officer and adjutant. He has a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Staffordshire and a master of business administration from the University of Warwick. His research interests include the integration of remote and autonomous systems into land forces, as well as military personnel issues.  Featured on Page 36

PROFESSOR KERRY K. GERSHANECK is a fellow with NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Belgium and a senior fellow with the Global Risk Mitigation Foundation in Hawaii. For the past decade he has been a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University in Taiwan, and at Thailand’s Thammasat University, Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy and Royal Thai Naval Academy. A former United States Marine Corps officer, he has extensive operational experience from the infantry platoon level to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, with command and staff experience in special warfare, counterintelligence, intelligence, infantry, armor and strategic communications. He has also worked with the U.S. Information Agency and in U.S. embassies in the Indo-Pacific.  Featured on Page 50

Integrated Deterrence Volume 48, Issue 2, 2023

BRIG. GEN. GLENN T. HARRIS is the deputy director of Global Operations for the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. He is the command lead for nuclear operations and responsible for the day-to-day readiness of U.S. nuclear command and control and strategic deterrent forces. He is also responsible for synchronizing component, joint and coalition operations, and for directing assigned forces to achieve USSTRATCOM and national objectives. 

U.S. ARMY MAJ. JOHN YANIKOV is the Military Information Support Operations (MISO) branch chief in USSTRATCOM’s Global Operations Directorate. As command lead, he oversees MISO planning, integration and execution. He received his commission into the Army through Millersville University in 2007 and earned a master’s degree in defense and strategic studies from the University of Texas, El Paso, in 2021. He has served in various positions, including as a company commander and battalion operations officer at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, under U.S. Army Special Operations Command.  Featured on Page 10

MAJ. BRYAN C. NEAL is a U.S. Army strategic intelligence officer in the Defense Attaché Service, supporting U.S. Defense Department operations in Oceania and the Philippines. He earned a master’s degree in strategic intelligence with a focus on China from the National Intelligence University in 2021. He was a field artillery officer at the tactical and operational levels for a decade, including serving as a fire support instructor at the U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  Featured on Page 18

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 34

AIYANA PASCHAL is the public affairs officer at the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance in Hawaii. Paschal previously was a public affairs officer at U.S. Cyber Command in Fort Meade, Maryland. She served six years in the U.S. Navy as a mass communication specialist, attending the Defense Information School and serving at various commands, including aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and Defense Media Activity Pacific.  Featured on Page 48

PETER CONNOLLY is an expert in international relations, security and strategy who recently completed his dissertation at the Australian National University. He served 33 years as an Australian Army infantry officer, including in operational service in Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, Somalia and Timor-Leste. He also worked in Australia’s Parliament House and the U.S. Defense Department before directing international engagement for the Australian Army and its research center.  Featured on Page 56