John Reed

John Reed is a national security reporter for Foreign Policy. He comes to FP after editing Military.com’s publication Defense Tech and working as the associate editor of DoDBuzz. Between 2007 and 2010, he covered major trends in military aviation and the defense industry around the world for Defense News and Inside the Air Force. Before moving to Washington in August 2007, Reed worked in corporate sales and business development for a Swedish IT firm, The Meltwater Group in Mountain View CA, and Philadelphia, PA. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter at the Tracy Press and the Scotts Valley Press-Banner newspapers in California. His first story as a professional reporter involved chasing escaped emus around California’s central valley with Mexican cowboys armed with lassos and local police armed with shotguns. Luckily for the giant birds, the cowboys caught them first and the emus were ok. A New England native, Reed graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a dual degree in international affairs and history.

Latest Articles

The List

1 Pentagon Weapons System That Was on Time and Under Budget

Look on the bright side: It could have been 0.
The List

Tomorrow's Weapons Today

Five weapons to watch in 2013.
The List

People's Power

Eight ways China's military is catching up to the United States.
Feature

Hell Week

What Pentagon insiders think about the Petraeus scandal.
The List

Taking the Hill

The eight races the military-industrial complex is watching.
Argument

Air Wars

How defense is playing in the 2012 campaign.
Argument

Defense in 2013

Who wins, depending on who wins.
Argument

Tribal Warfare

Why did the Pentagon award a $7 million Afghanistan security contract to this group of Native Americans in Oklahoma?
The Brass

The Air Up There

How Sec. Michael Donley sees sequestration and the future of aerial warfare.
Feature

Guardian Angels in Afghanistan

The Pentagon's attempt to reduce the growing trend of "green on blue" violence.