Global Thinker and Geostrategist

Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow for the NATO Veterans Initiative Research Institute. He was previously the Senior Defense Editor and Columnist for the National Security Journal. He was formerly a Fellow for Technology and Innovation at the R Street Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was the Defense and National Security Editor of 1945. 1945 is a foreign policy and international relations web magazine also based in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Coalition Equation: Alliances and Grand Strategy and Don’t Turn Your Back on the World: A Conservative Foreign Policy. He also wrote Humans, Machines, and Data: Future Trends in Warfare. Brent is an Adjunct Professor at American University where he teaches courses on terrorism.