He also served as the Director of the International Negotiations Division at the Pentagon for the J-5, leading a division that provides military advice on bilateral and multilateral agreements and instruments, including conventional and nuclear arms control, and has been a criminal trial litigator, U.S.
[4] He then was a Mary Derrickson McCurdy Visiting Scholar at Duke University Marine Laboratory in the Nicholas School of the Environment, where he conducted research on oceans law and policy.
In 2014, he returned to the US Naval War College as a Full Professor in the Stockton Center for International Law.
He is known for his 2010 paper titled “How the United States Lost the Naval War of 2015” which foretold the emergence of the Chinese Navy as a threat to the U.S. strategic position in the Indo-Pacific region, and “Putting Your Head in the Tiger’s Mouth,” concerning the law of submarine espionage.
In 2019, he wrote, “Maritime Enforcement of North Korean Sanctions” in the Berkeley Journal of International Law.
Kraska has written or co-authored more than a hundred publications on a wide range of international legal topics, with a focus on maritime law.