
Becca Wasser is a Senior Fellow for the Defense Program and lead of The Gaming Lab at CNAS. Her research areas include defense strategy, force design, strategic and operational planning, force posture and employment, and wargaming. She is also an adjunct instructor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where she teaches an undergraduate course on wargaming.
Prior to joining CNAS, Wasser was a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation. In this role, she led research projects and designed wargames examining critical national security and defense issues for the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Department of State, and intelligence community. She also served as a liaison to U.S. Army HQDA G-3/5/7. Previously, she was a research analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based jointly in Washington, D.C., and Manama, Bahrain.
Wasser holds an MS in foreign service, with distinction, from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a BA in international and global studies from Brandeis University.
Recent Publications & News
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Mission Brief | Gaining the Asymmetric Advantage: Emerging Technology and the AUKUS Pillar 2 Promise with Prof. Tanya Monro
By Becca Wasser
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Campaign of Denial
By Becca Wasser
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New CNAS Report: Campaign of Denial: Strengthening Simultaneous Deterrence in the Indo-Pacific and Europe”
By Becca Wasser
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The Pentagon Is Freaking Out About a Potential War With China
By Becca Wasser
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Bad Blood: The TTX for the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
By Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser & Andrew Metrick
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