Carrie A. Lee is a senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States, where she runs the Democracy and Security Network. She is also a visiting scholar with the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House. From 2021-2025, she was an associate professor at the US Army War College, where she served as the Chair of the Department of National Security and Strategy and director of the USAWC Civil-Military Relations Center. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University in 2015, and a B.S. from MIT in 2010. She studies the relationship between democracy, military strategy, and foreign policy, and is an expert on civil-military relations.
Carrie’s writing has appeared in publications such as Foreign Affairs, Texas National Security Review, War on the Rocks, Armed Forces and Society, International Politics, Orbis, and The Washington Post. Her research has won multiple awards from the American Political Science Association, and been supported by the U.S. Air Force, the Stanton Foundation, LBJ Foundation, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences, and Stanford University.
Carrie is also a contributing editor for War on the Rocks, term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a fellow with the Truman National Security Project. Her analysis is regularly featured in media such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN International, and other outlets. She has previously held academic positions at the US Air War College, Notre Dame International Security Center, and the RAND Corporation.
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