Senior Fellow

Michael E. O'Hanlon

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
Director, Opportunity 08: Independent Ideas for Our Next President
Director of Research, 21st Century Defense Initiative
The Sydney Stein, Jr. Chair

Michael O’Hanlon specializes in U.S. national security policy. He is senior author of the Iraq Index. A former defense budget analyst who advised members of Congress on military spending, he specializes in Iraq, North Korea, homeland security, the use of military force and other defense issues. He is also director of Opportunity 08.

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Expertise

Arms treaties; Asian security issues; homeland security; Iraq policy; military technology; missile defense; North Korea policy; peacekeeping operations; taiwan policy; military analysis; U.S. defense strategy and budget

Language Fluency:
French

"I'm not critical of those who were skeptical of the surge last January. I'm more critical of an attitude now that says, 'I'm not going to look back and learn why things are different than what I expected, or acknowledge that significant progress has been made.'