Reuben Johnson is the Director of the Asia Research Centre and Korea Fellow at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation. He has over 30 years of experience analyzing and reporting on foreign weapon systems, defence technology, and the international politics of arms exports. During this time, he worked for several years in the US defence industry as a foreign technology analyst, and later as a consultant for the US Department of Defense, the Navy and Air Force Departments, as well as for the UK and Australian governments.
He currently writes regularly for several professional defence and aerospace technology publications. Over the years, he has reported for The Washington Times, The Bulwark, The Weekly Standard, Washington Free Beacon, National Review Online, CNN, Aviation Week, Breaking Defense, Aviation International News, BBC, Jane’s Information Group (UK), Taipei Times (ROC), Australian Defence Magazine, J-Wings (Japan), Global Times (PRC), Revista Força Aérea (Brazil), Rzeczpospolita (Poland), Asian Military Review (Thailand), 北京市国防技术基础杂志社 (PRC), Ukrainian Observer (Ukraine), Military Periscope, YAM Magazine (Peru), National Security Journal, 19FortyFive, Armada (UK), and Rolling Stone.
Since 1988, he has reported from most of the world’s major aerospace and defence expositions, as well as from landmark events such as the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in the People’s Republic of China, the 2004–2005 and 2013–2014 Ukrainian revolutions, and the 2022 Russian invasion and occupation. He holds a BA from DePauw University and an MA from Miami University (Ohio) in the US, both with a specialization in Soviet/Russian studies. He is based in Warsaw, Poland. He has won back-to-back awards for defence reporting in 2022 and 2023.