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Editorial Team
Editor, AOL Defense
Colin Clark was the founding editor of DoDBuzz.com. Previously, he covered Congress, intelligence and regulatory affairs for Space News; founded and edited the Washington Aerospace Briefing, a newsletter for space industry professionals; covered national security issues for Congressional Quarterly; and was editor of Defense News. Clark is based in Washington, D.C.
Deputy Editor, AOL Defense
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. is the deputy editor for AOL Defense. During his 13 years at National Journal magazine, he wrote his first story about what became known as "homeland security" in 1998, his first story about "military transformation" in 1999, and his first story on "asymmetrical warfare" in 2000. Since 2004 he has conducted in-depth interviews with more than 200 veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq about their experiences, insights, and lessons-learned, writing stories that won awards from the association of Military Reporters & Editors in 2008 and 2009, as well as an honorable mention in 2010.
Board of Contributors
The Board of Contributors boasts some of America's top defense thinkers from academia, thinktanks and industry. Some are liberal, some are conservative and some would claim little or no political affiliation. Their mission is to help AOL Defense ask the hard questions and to find the even harder answers for how the military and the defense industry can best safeguard citizens and provide value to the taxpayers.
- David Axe
Freelance war correspondent and author. His most recent book is a graphic novel, War is Boring. - Marion Blakey
Leads the Aerospace Industries Association, America's premier aerospace and defense lobby group. Blakey was the first woman to head the Federal Aviation Administration. - Bob Butterworth
Consultant and expert on intelligence, especially spy satellites and the policies governing them. Former senior advisor to leader of Space Command. - David Deptula
Boundary-pushing expert on air power. Retired Air Force general, consultant. - Mackenzie Eaglen
Former congressional staffer and defense analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
- Joan Johnson-Freese
Expert on US military space, Chinese space and the PLA. Professor at Naval War College and lecturer at Harvard University. - Robbin Laird
International defense consultant, owner of Second Line of Defense website, former National Security Council staffer, Washington. - Doug Macgregor
Innovative critic of the Army and how and why America fights its war. - Loren Thompson
Top defense consultant and analyst at the Lexington Institute, DC thinktank, author of Early Warning Blog - Winslow Wheeler
Defense budget expert and analyst at the Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight (POGO). HuffPost blogger.
- Rachel Kleinfeld
Politically astute progressive who is president of the Truman National Security Project. Named one of the top 40 under 40 political leaders by Time Magazine.
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