Defense One Radio Creators & Guests

Uri Friedman is a journalist. Currently, he is Managing Editor at the Atlantic Council and a contributing writer at The Atlantic magazine.Previously, Friedman was a senior staff writer at The Atlantic covering national security and global affairs and the editor of The Atlantic’s Global section. Before that, he served as the deputy managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

Alexa O'Brien is an American investigative researcher and analyst.

Phil Klay is a writer.

Candace Rondeaux is a journalist and public policy analyst. Currently, she directs Future Frontlines, a public intelligence service for next generation security and democratic resilience. She is also a professor at Arizona State University. She is also a columnist for the World Politics Review and a contributing writer for the Daily Beast.Previously, Rondeaux was a senior program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she launched the RESOLVE Network, a global research consortium on conflict and violent extremism. She was also a strategic advisor to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.Rondeaux has reported on political violence in South Asia and around the world for the Washington Post and the International Crisis Group. She also covered criminal justice and capital punishment.Rondeaux received her B.A. in Russian Studies from Sarah Lawrence College, her M.A. in Journalism from New York University, and her M.P.P. in Public Policy from Princeton University.

Ali Wyne is an international relations policy analyst. Currently, he is a senior analyst with Eurasia Group's Global Macro practice, where he focuses on US-China relations and great-power competition. He is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a fellow at the Modern War Institute.Wyne has served as a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a research assistant at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. Wyne received a B.A.s in Management Science and Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an M.A. in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Magnus Nordenman is a noted NATO and maritime affairs expert. He has served, among other things, as the Director of the Transatlantic Security Initiative with the Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. He is the author of “The New Battle for the Atlantic,” forthcoming from the U.S. Naval Institute.