Zack Cooper
Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise
Grand Strategy, Defense Policy, Global Posture, Force Structure, and Emerging National Security Challenges
Biography
Zack Cooper is a Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments where he focuses on U.S. grand strategy, defense policy, global posture, force structure, and emerging national security challenges.
Zack previously served in various positions at the Pentagon and White House, including special assistant to the Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and assistant to the Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism.
Zack is a Ph.D. candidate in Security Studies at Princeton University. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and an M.P.A. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.
Author Bibliography for Zack Cooper
Strategic Choices Exercise Outbrief
May 29, 2013 • By Todd Harrison, Jim Thomas, Mark Gunzinger, Andrew F. Krepinevich, Eric Lindsey, Evan B. Montgomery, and Zack Cooper • Studies
As the Pentagon nears completion of its ongoing Strategic Choices and Management Review, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments conducted an external Strategic Choices Exercise with teams of experts…
No-Fly Zone, No Problem
March 10, 2011 • By Jim Thomas and Zack Cooper • Analysis
How to do it without putting a single coalition plane directly over Libyan territory. The U.S. and its allies successfully implemented no-fly zones against Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein in…
Selected Options and Costs for a No-Fly Zone Over Libya
March 9, 2011 • By Todd Harrison and Zack Cooper • Briefs
US policymakers and other world leaders have watched intently as civil war has erupted in Libya. In recent days, reports of air strikes on Libyan rebels and civilians have led…