HAL BRANDS is Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. From 2015 to 2016, Brands served as Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Defense for Strategic Planning. From 2017 to 2018, he was the lead writer for the Commission on the National Defense. He is the author of several books on U.S. grand strategy, including T...
