He worked as an assistant to Andrew Marshall in the Office of Net Assessment, advising on future developments in military technology, He was later named director of the Secretary of the Navy's advisory panel.

He testified before the United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower about strategies for achieving U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for a 350-ship Navy.

[9] He collaborated with Robert C. O'Brien, who served as a United States National Security Advisor, on a foreign policy article analyzing how President Trump's goal for restoring the U.S. Navy ship force could be achieved.

[14] In the past he has taken a critical position on aircraft carriers due to what he sees as a high expense and questionable survivability in modern strategic environments.

[15][16] He proposes modifying the structure of the carrier air wing to include more unmanned aerial vehicles, which he believes essential to countering modern threats.

[19] He is a proponent of Roosevelt's Big Stick diplomacy, and views a larger Navy and strategic bombers as the means to carry on this tradition in the 21st century, and thus maintain the United States' status as a dominant superpower.