Jeannie L. Johnson is the director of Utah State University's Center for Anticipatory Intelligence and a professor in the political science department at USU. Dr. Johnson’s primary research interest, strategic culture, examines the impact of national and organizational cultures on the formation of security policy. Dr. Johnson co-founded the Center for Anticipatory Intelligence with the vision of creating an interdisciplinary nexus that fuses expertise in national security and geopolitics with cutting-edge instruction in cyber threats, data analytics, and emergent technology.

Prior to her academic career, Dr. Johnson worked in the CIA’s directorate of intelligence as a member of the Balkan task force and served with the State Department in the Paris and Zagreb embassies. Dr. Johnson has conducted in-depth research on U.S. national and military service cultures, including critical blind spots in our foreign and security policy. Her book, “The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America’s Wars” explores the collective impact of the internal culture of the U.S. Marine Corps, the culture of the U.S. military, and American national culture across 100 years of counterinsurgency operations.

Dr. Johnson has also focused on the application of strategic culture analysis to the nuclear weapons issue and has co-edited two books on that topic. Dr. Johnson received her doctorate in strategic studies from the University of Reading.