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About Nathan Kohlenberg

Nathan Kohlenberg is a research assistant for the Alliance for Securing Democracy. He previously served as a policy associate at the Truman National Security Project, where he remains a fellow. He has written about disinformation and foreign election interference in Defense One, Salon, Just Security, and elsewhere. He conducted research on the South China Sea conflict and contributed a chapter to South China Sea: Maintaining Peace/Preventing War, published by the JHU Press in 2017. Nathan has a B.A. from Carleton College and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He speaks English and French.

Competing Information Operations Target Americans in the Wake of Soleimani’s Killing

As has become the norm in moments of international crisis, the fallout from the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani last month unleashed a flood of disinformation onto social media. In crisis environments, where unconfirmed facts of even benign or [...]

2020-02-10T13:21:59-05:00February 10, 2020|By Nathan Kohlenberg|

2020 NDAA: Important Steps toward Addressing Foreign Interference

The United States Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, an annual bill designating funding for the Department of Defense, on a bipartisan basis. Priorities outlined in the NDAA will drive important elements of [...]

2019-12-17T15:09:02-05:00December 17, 2019|By Nathan Kohlenberg and Thomas Morley|