Ryan Evans is the founder of War on the Rocks, a media outlet on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs, as well as Bedrock Knowledge, a software company that scales knowledge in and of the modern workforce from the Fortune 500 to the armed services. When he was young and didn't know any better, he worked at various think tanks in Washington and London. He also worked as a deployed U.S. Army civilian in Afghanistan, as a part of the human terrain team assigned to the British-led Task Force Helmand. He enjoys reading good writing, talking with interesting people, and single-malt scotch.