Brett Swaney

Mr. Brett Swaney is an Assistant Research Fellow at the Center for Strategy and Military Power (CSMP) at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University. His work focuses on transatlantic security and defense cooperation. He has published on Baltic security, NATO Partnerships, the German defense industrial base, arctic security, and integrated deterrence in northern Europe. Mr. Swaney also serves as the book review editor of Joint Force Quarterly, the journal of JPME at National Defense University, educating emerging joint force leaders and warfighters.    

Mr. Swaney joined INSS in 2016 as a research analyst and had previously worked at the Center for Transatlantic Security Studies at NDU educating U.S. warfighters on their way to Europe and NATO. He holds a M.A. in Global Security Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in History and International Relations from Grand Valley State University. 

Selected Publications

• Toward Integrated Deterrence: Sweden's Role in NATO's Northern Flank (with Lisa Aronsson, Dave Auerswald, and Jacklyn Kerr), Journal of Arctic and Climate Security Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, September 2023. 
• Priorities for NATO Partnerships in an Era of Strategic Competition with Lisa Aronsson, National Defense University-Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic Perspectives 40, December 2022.
• The Future of NATO Partnerships with Lisa Aronsson, in Visualizing the NATO Strategic Concept: Five Ways to Look at the Alliance's Future, et al., The Atlantic Council, June 16, 2022. 
• Three Priorities for NATO Partnerships in a Contested World with Lisa Aronsson, The Atlantic Council, June 14, 2021.
• Baltics Left of Bang: The Southern Shore with Marcel Hadeed, Mariusz Kaminski, Monika Sus, and Amelie Theussen, National Defense University-Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic Forum 308, January 2021.
• Baltics Left of Bang: Comprehensive Defense in the Baltic States with Dalia Bankauskaite, Janis Berzins, Tony Lawrence, Deividas Šlekys, T.X. Hammes, National Defense University-Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic Forum 307, September 2020.  
• Baltics Left of Bang: Nordic Total Defense and Implications for the Baltic Sea Region with Håkon Lunde Saxi, Bengt Sundelius, National Defense University-Institute for National Strategic Studies, Strategic Forum 304, January 2020.

Book Reviews

• Review of To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond by Jonathan Klug and Steven Leonard, Eds., (2021) in The Strategy Bridge (17 October 2023).
• Review of Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America's Alliances by Mira Rapp-Hooper (2020) in The Strategy Bridge (28 October 2020).
• Review of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by Peter Singer and Emerson T. Brooking (2018), in Joint Force Quarterly 94 (3^rd Quarter, 2019).
• Review of War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century by David Patrikarakos (2017), in Joint Force Quarterly 92 (1^st Quarter, 2019)