Draft:Jahara Matisek


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Jahara Matisek is a US Air Force officer who has become the most published active-duty service member currently serving, with two books and over 100 articles and essays in peer-reviewed journals, policy relevant outlets, and edited volumes. He is currently a Military Professor in the National Security Affairs department at the US Naval War College and was previously an Associate Professor in the Military and Strategic Studies department at the US Air Force Academy. He has been a Fellow with the European Resilience Initiative Center, Modern War Institute, Irregular Warfare Initiative, Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) at the College of William & Mary, and Homeland Defense Institute.

He earned a PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University in 2018, and is a 2005 graduate of the US Air Force Academy. Besides teaching and publishing, he is a Command Pilot who has over 3,700 flight hours in the C-17, E-11 BACN, T-6, and T-53, to include earning a Bronze Star for commanding air operations at Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan in 2020. He is most known for his writings on security assistance, information warfare , peacebuilding , and US strategies , such as gray zone deterrence and irregular statecraft. His co-authored book, Old and New Battlespaces, details why everything is becoming weaponized and how everyone becomes a combatant in the information age. His co-edited volume, Military Strategy, Joint Operations, and Airpower, presents how to formulate US strategy and the ways in which the joint force and multidomain airpower can be best optimized for modern warfare. Given recent great power competition events in Taiwan and Ukraine, his articles have increasingly focused on how the West can uphold the liberal rules-based international order by providing support and assistance to Taiwan and Ukraine.