Brian Kerg is a prior-enlisted Marine Corps infantryman, communications officer, operational planner, and is currently the commanding officer of Marine Wing Communications Squadron-38. He has served for over 20 years in formations across the U.S., the Western Pacific, and Afghanistan.

He is a non-resident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative and with the Irregular Warfare Initiative. He formerly served in fellowships with the Pacific Forum, the College of William and Mary’s Project for International Peace and Security, Key Terrain Cyber, and the Marine Corps University’s Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare. He also served for three years as a member of the editorial board for U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings.

He writes and publishes frequently, with articles appearing in War on the Rocks, The New Atlanticist, Proceedings, The Marine Corps Gazette, Naval History Magazine, Marine Corps History, The Strategy Bridge, CIMSEC, and other publications. His fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Line of Advance, The Deadly Writers Patrol, and other journals, and is published in the short story collection Our Best War Stories.

He is selected for the Commandant of the Marine Corps PhD Strategist Program and will pursue a doctorate in international relations upon his completion of command.