To navigate the world during these uncertain times, hire Lee Slusher of BT Consulting LLC to get the best insights into global affairs.

Lee Slusher is an intelligence and geopolitical risk expert with twenty-five years of analytical and operational experience supporting the U.S. intelligence community, conventional and special operations, as well as the private sector. He has worked with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, the National Ground Intelligence Center, and the Department of Defense’s cryptologic community. In addition, Lee is currently a geopolitical intelligence and national security expert with the international consulting platform, Poligage.

Lee is a published author at the national level, accomplished at analytical research, writing, and briefing. He is skilled in a range of analytical, geospatial, and data mining applications. Lee holds a strategic security master’s degree from The George Washington University, and is a three-time alumnus of the Defense Language Institute, achieving fluency in Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Farsi. His professional education includes numerous courses at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Joint Military Intelligence Training Center. In addition, Lee is a graduate of the Counterinsurgency Academy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He completed five deployments to combat zones, and provided on-the-ground analytical and advisory support to numerous NATO nations, as well as Ukraine and Taiwan. Career highlights include:

• Chief analytical architect of a two-year, bilateral effort to improve Taiwan’s defenses against the People’s Republic of China.

• Co-author of a U.S. Army handbook on Chinese warfare and strategic competition.

• Conducted primary source research and interviews in Ukraine to produce assessments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which served as foundational documents for U.S./Ukraine security cooperation.

• Author of studies and handbooks on Russia’s strategic intentions, capabilities, and limitations. Topics included electronic and cyber warfare, the invasion of Crimea, and Russia’s aggression toward the Baltic States and other regional actors.

• Author of studies and handbooks on Iranian influence and non-state militant activity throughout the Middle East.

• Produced national-level intelligence assessments for senior civilian executives of the Department of Defense, ambassadors and embassy staffs, and the U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Analyzed foreign military forces and insurgent groups by applying comprehensive knowledge of intelligence, threat analysis, forecasting, and other analytical methodologies.

• Developed and instructed an intelligence training curriculum for the U.S. Army.

• Designed and executed collaborative analysis events and wargames to support senior-level decision-making. Participants included government officials, academic experts, and private sector stakeholders.