Jon Compton

Jon Compton is an author and researcher whose work bridges strategy and story. He chairs the Wargaming Department at the U.S. Naval War College, focusing on deterrence, complex systems, and decisionmaking under uncertainty. His fiction examines the human consequences of advanced cognition and AI, treating ideas as engines rather than ornaments. He is the author of The Architecture of Unmaking and the creator of the Deadwake gaming universe.