Alarik Fritz, Ph.D.

Alarik Fritz is an expert on irregular warfare, homeland defense, command and control, and other topics. Since joining CNA in 1999, he has managed and executed a wide variety of analyses for the US Navy, US Marine Corps, and other US government staffs to help solve strategic, operational, tactical, and technical problems. His most recent work focuses on logistics, force posture, and unmanned systems.

Fritz has served as CNA’s analytical field representative to US Sixth Fleet in Naples, Italy, and as an embedded CNA scientific analyst in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Previously, he deployed with the US Marine Corps during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom and with the US Navy at Fleet Forces Command and Fifth Fleet. He has lived, worked, and traveled in Japan, China, sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Iran, Pakistan and other locations in Europe and the Arabian Gulf. He has latent fluency in Japanese, working ability in Italian, and elementary Mandarin.

 Fritz received his doctorate in political science from Georgetown University, focusing on research design and the dynamics of alliances and coalitions. He received his Master of Arts in East Asian politics and economics from George Washington University and has a double Bachelor of Arts in political science and Japanese from the University of Arizona.