Dr. Jacqueline (Jackie) Deal is President & CEO of the Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG), a defense research firm, and co-founder of the American Academy for Strategic Education (AASE.org), which teaches courses on net assessment, China, and political warfare to American and allied national security professionals. Her work has been published in American Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Journal of Strategic Studies, National Interest, National Review, the New York Times, and Politico, among other outlets, and she has testified before the U.S.-China Economic & Security Review Commission on Chinese Communist Party political and information warfare, PLA modernization, South China Sea developments, and U.S.-China relations. Dr. Deal is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Contributing Editor of Parameters, the journal of the U.S. Army War College.