Caroline Baxter

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Caroline Baxter (LinkedIn) is the Director of the Converging Risks Lab within the Council on Strategic Risks. From 2021 to 2024, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training working as the principal senior authority on the development of DoD policy on all issues relating to military education, training, and exercises across the Joint Force. For her work in DoD, Ms. Baxter was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Articles by this author:

Visualization of a brain and artificial intelligence

AI’s Hidden National Security Cost

Oct. 1, 2025 Caroline Baxter

Residents look out onto the bay waters in Sitio Pariahan, Bulacan on January 11, 2019. The houses around them are damaged from flooding.

Want to Compete with China? Deliver on Climate Security for the Indo-Pacific

May 21, 2021 Caroline Baxter and Erin Sikorsky