Cagri Sagiroglu is a Colonel (General Staff) in the Turkish Armed Forces with over twenty years of operational command and strategic planning experience across national and multinational NATO contexts in addition to his military Attaché tenure in Brussels. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering (Universities of Groningen and Çukurova), graduated from NATO Defence College and was a Researcher at the Changing Character of War Centre, Pembroke College, University of Oxford. His research focuses on future security challenges, operational art, military history, military AI, and force design for contemporary high-intensity warfare.