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Michaela Dodge

  • Policy Analyst, Defense and Strategic Policy

Michaela Dodge specializes in missile defense, nuclear weapons modernization and arms control as policy analyst for defense and strategic policy in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies.

Dodge has authored and co-authored research papers and commentary for Heritage as well as contributed defense and national security posts to the think tank’s policy blog, The Foundry. Her work has appeared in online venues such as FoxNews.com, The Daily Caller and Big Peace.

Dodge holds a master of science degree in defense and strategic studies from Missouri State University, where she was awarded the Ulrike Schumacher Memorial Scholarship for two years. She received a bachelor’s degree in international relations and defense and strategic studies from Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

She is a National Security Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a former Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute.

She participates in the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) Nuclear Scholars Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During the PONI conference in June 2012 at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, she spoke on “The Future of the Triad, Fiscal Austerity and the Vision of Nuclear Zero.”

Dodge currently resides in Fairfax, Va.

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