Associate Professor, Naval Postgraduate School

Games and Culture

Leo Blanken is an Associate Professor in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has published articles on innovation, irregular warfare, strategic competition, and defense economics. He is the author of Rational Empires: Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion (University of Chicago Press) and co-editor of Assessing War: The Challenge of Measuring Success and Failure (Georgetown University Press). He also collects and DJs rare soul and funk records from the 1960s