Dr. Mara Karlin
Director of Strategic Studies
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Mara Karlin, PhD, is Director of Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She is also an Associate Professor at SAIS and a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. Karlin has served in national security roles for five US secretaries of defense, advising on policies spanning strategic planning, defense budgeting, future wars and the evolving security environment, and regional affairs involving the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. She served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategy and force development and is the author of “Building Militaries in Fragile States: Challenges for the United States.”
Recent Publications & News
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Why did the Pentagon ever give Trump the option of killing Soleimani?
Commentary
By Alice Hunt Friend, Mara Karlin & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Two Cheers for Esper’s Plan to Reassert Civilian Control of the Pentagon
Commentary
By Loren DeJonge Schulman, Alice Hunt Friend & Mara Karlin
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Women in National Security: Mara Karlin
Podcast
By Mara Karlin & Loren DeJonge Schulman
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Ending the Iran Deal is An Invitation to War
By Ilan Goldenberg & Mara Karlin
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Keeping Up Civ-Mil Relations
By Loren DeJonge Schulman & Mara Karlin
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