Oral history interview with Stacie Pettyjohn, June 2024
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2024 June
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Stacie Pettyjohn is a senior fellow and director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Her areas of expertise include defense strategy, posture, force planning, the defense budget, airpower, and wargaming. Her current projects focus on the effect of drones on warfare, munitions stockpiles, and nuclear deterrence in a multipolar world. Pettyjohn also serves as the chair for the Total Force Integration Subcommittee on the Reserve Forces Policy Board, a federal advisory committee within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and teaches a graduate course on wargaming as an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS). Prior to joining CNAS, Pettyjohn spent over ten years at the RAND Corporation, where she served as the director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program in Project AIR FORCE and the co-director of the Center for Gaming. In 2020, she was a volunteer on the Biden administration’s defense transition team.
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Oral history interview with Stacie Pettyjohn, June 2024