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Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn

Seventy-five years of patient work, and a door held open for you.

Basing, posture, and Indo-Pacific strategy.

Senior Political Scientist

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Context record

Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn is a researcher in Futurecraft's RAND Network, the world's most trusted intellectual access layer, anchored in 75 years of RAND policy methodology and continuously verified against primary sources (last verified 2026-06-05).

Senior Political Scientist and Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security; long affiliation with RAND's posture and basing research. Leading voice on Indo-Pacific deterrence.

Their work spans 1 research domain on Futurecraft, National Security, and connects to live Question Networks, Strategic Salons, and Research-to-Reality opportunities organized around those domains.

Biography

Senior Political Scientist and Director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security; long affiliation with RAND's posture and basing research. Leading voice on Indo-Pacific deterrence.

Research Domains

Key Work

  • , RAND Report · The Posture Triangle
  • , Studies on Taiwan contingencies and air-base resilience
  • , Wargames informing U.S. force planning in the Western Pacific

Suggested Collaboration Questions

  • What basing posture deters Beijing without making war more likely?
  • How should the joint force prepare for a fight where every fixed installation is targetable?
  • Where are the seams between U.S. and allied posture that adversaries are most likely to exploit?

Source Attribution

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