Brent Eastwood - Senior Research Fellow

Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, is a Geostrategist and Global Thinker. He previously served as a Senior Defense Editor and Columnist for the foreign policy web magazines National Security Journal and 19FortyFive. Before that, Brent was a Fellow in Technology and Innovation at R Street Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC. He has served as a Legislative Fellow for U.S. Senator Tim Scott and advised the senator on defense and foreign policy issues. Brent has taught at George Washington University, American University, and George Mason University. He has founded and led technology startups in artificial intelligence event prediction, intelligence analysis, and biometrics. Brent has written five books on global alliances, foreign policy, future warfare, streaming video, and economic policy. He has also written for the RAND Corporation, the American Enterprise Institute, the Atlantic Council, the Jamestown Foundation, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is a former U.S. Army Infantry officer and represented the United States as a Young Leader at the 2006 NATO Summit in Riga, Latvia.