LTC (Ret) David E.A. Johnson

LTC David Johnson, US Army (Ret.) also currently serves on the Board of the Indo Pacific Counter-Proliferation Initiative (NZ) and the Advisory Boards of Rescue Global (UK) and the Special Operations Association of America. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has a Master’s degree in the History of Strategy from La Sorbonne in Paris. A Special Forces combat veteran and Army strategist, his career is outlined in the Congressional Record. After his military service, he worked for Intel Corporation as Director of Digital Security Products in the Software and Solutions Group. Most recently, he was the Executive Director of C4ADS (the Center for Advanced Defense Studies), a Washington, DC-based, non-partisan, non-profit dedicated to addressing cross-cutting global security challenges. Dave is a pioneer in the use of Publicly Available Information to create broad-based, high-quality research and analysis. In 2021, he returned to Afghanistan as part of Save Our Allies in partnership with UAE Operation Chivalrous Knight to evacuate over 10,0000 Afghan Refugees.