CLINT WORK is a Research Fellow and professor in the Center for Strategy and Military Power within the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He previously served as Fellow and Director of Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI), and Fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center’s 38 North Program. Work has conducted extensive applied research on U.S. national security policy in the Indo-Pacific, with emphasis on Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula. He has worked closely with officials throughout the Departments of Defense and State, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), other U.S. national security-related departments and agencies, and with Congress, as well as South Korean and Japanese current and former officials, scholars and analysts.