The 2018 National Defense Strategy was clear in its call to shake off strategic atrophy – to...
Bryan Groves
Bryan Groves is a colonel in the U.S. Army and an accomplished academic. He is a paratrooper, Green Beret, and a strategist. He has been the Initiatives Group Chief for the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Forces Command, the Chief of the Strategy Division on the Joint Staff where he led the effort to write the National Military Strategy, and then as the Army representative for the current National Defense Strategy that will be shortly released. As an academic, he has taught at West Point, was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has a BS from West Point, an MA from Yale, and an MPP and PhD from Duke University. He is the author of When Presidents Fight the Last War: The Oval Office, Sunk Costs, and Wartime Decision-Making Since Vietnam (University of Kentucky Press, 2025)