BiographyPatrick Doherty is deputy director of the National Security Studies Program and director of the Smart Strategy Initiative at New America Foundation. The Smart Strategy Initiative seeks to provoke a new discourse on the central challenge facing the United States: the nature of the American grand strategy and the contours of a new grand strategy capable of forging a prosperous, secure, and sustainable future. His writing has been published in The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN.com, ForeignPolicy.com, Washington Monthly, and the Chicago Tribune.