Leidos Chair of Future Warfare Studies
U.S. Naval War College
Sam J. Tangredi, Ph.D.
CAPT, USN (Ret.)
Dr. Tangredi is the Leidos Chair of Future Warfare Studies and Professor of National, Naval and Maritime Strategy in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies of the U.S. Naval War College.
He has wide experience as a strategic planner and director of strategic planning teams, including as Head, Strategy and Concepts Branch (N513), OPNAV.
He has contributed to the writing of joint concepts, such as the Joint Operational Access Concept, and red teamed other joint concepts. He helped to establish the Joint Operating Environment (JOE) assessment.
Sam has published seven books, over 200 journal articles, and numerous reports and presentations for a wide range of government and academic organizations (at various levels of classification).
His latest book, Algorithms of Armageddon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Future Wars (co-authored with George Galdorisi) was published in May 2024 (Naval Institute Press). He is co-editor of Cyber Warfare and Navies (Naval Institute Press 2025) and AI at War: How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Are Changing Naval Warfare (Naval Institute Press 2021). His book Anti-Access Warfare: Countering A2/AD Strategies—widely considered the definitive work on that subject—was re-released by Naval Institute Press in paperback in 2023.
His previous writings have won fifteen professional literature awards including the U.S. Naval Institute’s General Essay prize, AFCEA Cyber Edge award, and U.S. Navy League’s Alfred Thayer Mahan Award.
Dr. Tangredi is a retired U.S. Navy surface warfare officer who held command at sea.
Military Applications of Emerging Technologies
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM PT