Nick Turse is a contributing writer for The Intercept, reporting on national security and foreign policy.

Mary Louise Kelly is a broadcaster and author. She anchors the daily news show All Things Considered on National Public Radio, and previously covered national security at the network.

Jonathan House is a retired Army intelligence officer, military historian, and author of “Intelligence and the State: Analysts and Decision Makers.”

Kolja Brockmann is a researcher with the Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Tom Karako is the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Daniel Bessner is an associate professor in international studies at the University of Washington.

Michael Beckley is an associate professor of political science at Tufts University, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Polic...

Hal Brands is the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Sarah Bartlett Churchwell is a professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.

Andrew Tutt is a lawyer at the law firm of Arnold & Porter and argued and won on behalf of Torres before the Supreme Court in "Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety."

Michael Gordon is a national security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and author of “Degrade and Destroy: The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State, from Barack Obama to Donald Trum...

Elliot Ackerman is a former Marine Corps special operations team leader and author of "The Fifth Act: American's End in Afghanistan."

Dr. Sean Ekins is the CEO of Collaborations Pharmaceuticals.

Dr. Filippa Lentzos is a senior lecturer in the science & international security at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London.

Fraser Cain is a science journalist, publisher of Universe Today, and co-host of Astronomy Cast.

Will Hurd is an American politician and former CIA clandestine officer who served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 23rd congressional district from 2015 to 2021.

Leah Sottile is a freelance journalist and the author of "When the Moon Turns to Blood."

Marsin Alshamary is a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Oleksandra Povoroznik is a Kyiv-based journalist, film critic and translator.