Jessica Taylor served as a geopolitical strategist advising United Nations Command, ROK-U.S. Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces Korea headquarters staff from 2019 to 2021. She currently serves in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. She is a non-resident fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative and a Ph.D. candidate in the Security Studies Program at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, where her research focuses on Northeast Asia’s geopolitical systemic risk and alliance resilience.