Jason H. Campbell

Jason H. Campbell is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, where he focuses on issues of international security, counterinsurgency, intelligence, and measuring progress in post-conflict reconstruction. From June 2016 through September 2018, he served as country director for Afghanistan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy. His most recent work has concentrated on the resourcing of U.S. combatant commands, the U.S. role in developing special operations forces in NATO, and the evolving role of irregular warfare in competitive environments. In a previous position at the Brookings Institution, Campbell coauthored The Iraq Index and established The Afghanistan Index and The Pakistan Index projects. He is a regular contributor to War on the Rocks and his writing has also appeared in the Journal of Military History, Policy Review, and the Harvard International Review, as well as in the op-ed pages of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Campbell has also authored a chapter on U.S.-Saudi security relations in the forthcoming book, Imperial Crossroads: The Great Powers and the Persian Gulf (U.S. Naval Institute Press). Campbell earned his Ph.D. in war studies from King's College London, holds an M.A. in international affairs from Catholic University, and has a B.A. in political science & German from Amherst College.