Lieutenant Colonel Brian Kerg (USA), USMC, is a prior-enlisted mortarman, communications officer, operational planner, and Nonresident Fellow with Marine Corps University’s Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare. He holds a M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan, a M.A. in Military History from Norwich University, a M.A. in Operational Studies from the School of Advanced Warfighting, and a M.A. in Operational Art and Science from Air University. He is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan and has deployed and served across the Western Pacific. He is a frequent contributor to the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, the Center for International Maritime Security, the Marine Corps Gazette, and other professional journals. He is currently the Northeast Asia Plans Officer, III Marine Expeditionary Force, in Okinawa, Japan.