September 25, 2025

Shane McNeil

Shane McNeil is the counterintelligence policy advisor on the Joint Staff and a doctoral student at the Institute of World Politics, specializing in statesmanship and national security. A prolific writer on data privacy, national security, and creative counterintelligence, he is also a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland and founding director of the Sentinel Research Society, a university think tank dedicated to developing creative, unconventional, and nongovernmental solutions to counterintelligence challenges.