PAUL GIARRA is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New ...

 

PAUL GIARRA is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He is concurrently the President of Global Strategies & Transformation, a professional services firm and strategic planning consultancy providing national security strategic analysis, defense concept development, military transformation expertise, defense industry strategic planning, and applied history as a planning tool. Mr. Giarra is a strategic planner and national security analyst for Japan, China, East Asia, and NATO futures. As a military transformation expert, he has supported transformation and experimentation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; at U.S. Joint Forces Command; at the U.S. Pacific Command; at NATO Headquarters; and at NATO Allied Command Transformation. He is a frequent contributor to and commentator on China military futures, the U.S. Navy’s maritime strategy, and the U.S.-Japan alliance, and taught net assessment best practices to international students at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. During his Naval career, Mr. Giarra was a Naval aviator; a naval strategic planner; a political-military strategic planner for Far East, South Asia and Pacific issues; and managed the U.S.-Japan alliance in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is a graduate of Harvard College; the U.S. Naval War College; and the National War College-equivalent National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo.