Matt Tavares an adjunct fellow in the Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition. A former Pentagon official, he has spent nearly two decades focused on Russian strategy, asymmetric threats, counterterrorism, and combat and intelligence operations. A colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, he was an active-duty artillery officer with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, deploying to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom before transitioning to the Army Military Intelligence Corps and serving as chief of intelligence plans for the Counter-ISIS Coalition during Operation Inherent Resolve. He is now director of government affairs at Singularity Defense Corporation, working with Congress, the Pentagon, and U.S. allies on how low-cost air defense is built, bought, and fielded.
