Major General (retired) Mick Ryan spent 35 years in the Australian Army. He served in East Timor, Iraq, and Afghanistan as well as on the U.S. joint staff in Washington, DC. Ryan is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College, the U.S. Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in DC.
He is a keen author on the interface of strategy, innovation, advanced technologies, and people. His books include The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire (U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2024); White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan (Casemate Books, 2023); and War Transformed (U.S. Naval Institute Books, 2022).
Ryan is the inaugural Senior Fellow for Military Studies at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.