Jeffrey W. Hornung is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation. He is author of Managing the U.S.-Japan Alliance: An Examination of Structural Linkages in the Security Relationship (Sasakawa USA, 2017), The U.S. Military Laydown On Guam: Progress Amid Challenges (Sasakawa USA, 2017), and co-editor to Chinese-Japanese Competition and the East Asian Security Complex: Vying for Influence (Routledge, 2017). He specializes in Japanese security and foreign policies and East Asian security issues.