Sam J. Tangredi

Sam J. Tangredi is a defense strategist whose studies of future warfare prompted Defense Department officials to label him "the Navy's futurist." His thirty-year naval career included command at sea, service in key strategic planning positions in the Pentagon, earning a PhD in international relations, and research fellowships at two think tanks. His over one hundred-and-fifty publications have won numerous awards, including the U.S. Naval Institute's Arleigh Burke Prize and the U.S. Navy League's Alfred Thayer Mahan Award. Since 2016, he is Professor of National, Naval and Maritime Strategy, Leidos Chair of Future Warfare Studies, and and Director of the Institute for Future Warfare Studies at the U.S. Naval War College, and splits his time between Newport, RI and Coronado, California.