Nathaniel Fick
Nathaniel Fick is President Center for a New American Security, who was promoted from Chief Operating Officer when the co-founders, Michell Flournoy and Kurt Campbell, took policy-level positions in the Obama Administration's U.S. Department of State. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Fick is considered one of the intellectual advocates of the counterinsurgency doctrine articulated by GEN David Petraeus.
Fick began his career as a United States Marine Corps officer in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. In Iraq, he was in Force Reconnaissance, a special operations unit. He left as a captain, dissatisfied with command and policy trends. He documented his concerns in what became a 2005 New York Times bestseller One Bullet Away, required reading for Marine officers deploying to United States Central Command.
Marine Corps
Military advisor
After his uniformed service, he stayed involved with military matters, and was a civilian instructor at the Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Academy,
Politics
He spoke at 2008 Democratic National Convention and later served on the Obama administration Presidential Transition Team at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.