Lieutenant Colonel Sean Tucker joined the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies team in July 2024 and is a Military Professor. He previously served as a Security Cooperation Officer (SCO) at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo with the Mutual Defense Assistance Office (MDAO), where he was the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) team lead and Director of Japan Air Capability Development. Lt. Col. Tucker is a certified USINDOPACOM Foreign Area Officer (FAO) with over twelve years of operational experience in the Indo-Pacific region, including extensive in-country experience in Japan and the Republic of Korea.  Along with his Security [...]