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Brandon Patterson is a historian and political scientist who specializes in providing historical context to contemporary and forward-looking problems. His academic specialty is European diplomatic history, the international relations of Asia, and Middle East studies. Professionally, he is an analyst on issues including American foreign policy, geopolitics, maritime security, and nuclear strategy. His training as a historian has led him to conduct various research projects on military and diplomatic history to analogize with contemporary circumstances to help shape strategic planning.

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Vice Admiral Robert Thomas,

USN (Ret.)

Chairman of the Board

Vice Admiral Robert Thomas retired from the U.S. Navy in January 2017 after 38 years of Naval Service. He then accepted an appointment as a Senior Research Fellow with the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). He is also a full time faculty member (Professor of Practice) at UC San Diego’s Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS).