Micah Zenko is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he worked at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Congressional Research Service, and the State Department's Office of Policy Planning. His blog, Politics, Power, and Preventive Action, covers US national security policy and conflict prevention, and he writes a column on ForeignPolicy.com. Zenko consults with military commands, law enforcement agencies, the private sector, and nonprofit research organizations. He is the author or co-author of five Council Special Reports, on topics such as armed drones and nuclear weapons, and author of two books: Between Threats and War and Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy. Zenko has a PhD in political science from Brandeis University, and a Wisconsin bartender license.