Melanie W. Sisson is a fellow in the Foreign Policy program’s Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at the Brookings Institution, USA. She researches the use of the armed forces in international politics, U.S. national security strategy, and defense applications of emerging technologies. Sisson earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a master’s from the Columbia University School of International Affairs. She is co-editor of Military Coercion and US Foreign Policy: The Use of Force Short of War (Routledge, 2020).