Lt. Col. Jahara Matisek

Lieutenant Colonel Jahara Matisek (X – LinkedIn) is a Command Pilot and a Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College, Senior Fellow at the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University.

Lt. Col. Matisek has over 3,700 hours of flight time in the C-17, E-11 BACN, T-6, and T-53; and he earned a Bronze Star in 2020 for commanding airbase operations at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

Lt. Col. Matisek has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and has taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Naval War College. He is currently the most published active-duty officer serving with 2 books and 200 articles on the defense industrial base, strategy, and warfare.

The views of Lt. Col. Matisek are his own and not those of the U.S. Air Force, Department of War, or the U.S. Government.