The Strategy Bridge

What The Strategy Bridge does

The Strategy Bridge is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization founded in 2013 and headquartered in Washington, DC, focused on developing people in the fields of strategy, national security, and military affairs. It operates as a community-led content platform, publishing The Bridge — an online journal featuring essays, book reviews, and analysis by practitioners, scholars, and students — alongside The Strategy Bridge Podcast (100+ episodes distributed via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, and LibSyn), monthly in-person mentorship gatherings (in the National Capitol Region, Canberra, Boston, and Carlisle), and an annual Student Writing Contest judged by a coalition of U.S. military universities and civilian academic institutions.

The organization runs entirely on volunteer labor with no paid staff; the masthead lists four Board Members (Richard F. Ganske, Mikhail B. Grinberg, Tyrell O. Mayfield, Eric M. Murphy), Managing Editors, Senior Editors, and team members for Podcast, Communications, Assessments, and Community Gatherings. Its revenue model is donations-only, sourced from individual donors via Patreon monthly pledges (suggested $1/month), PayPal one-time gifts, and IRA Required Minimum Distributions from donors aged 70.5+.

In January 2024, the organization announced it had placed The Bridge journal in caretaker status and discontinued its writing contest, explicitly stating its belief that "the time is right for that work to occur elsewhere." The Military Fellowship partnership with the College of William & Mary's Project on International Peace & Security (PIPS), which pairs military personnel with undergraduate researchers, remains a core embedded program.

Name

The Strategy Bridge

Legal name

The Strategy Bridge

Website

https://thestrategybridge.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Strategy Bridge is a 501(c)3 volunteer-run non-profit publishing platform that produces a journal, podcast, in-person mentorship gatherings, and a military fellowship focused on developing practitioners, scholars, and students in strategy, national security, and military affairs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Military strategy education and publishing

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDAHAOAB

Defense Universities & Joint Professional Military Education (PME)

Education/Higher Education (Colleges & Universities)/Military Academies & Defense Universities

SECONDARYEDANAKAI

Advanced Project-Based Learning & Portfolio Mentoring (STEM/arts portfolios, maker projects)

Education/Tutoring & Test Preparation/Enrichment & Advanced/Accelerated Tutoring (Gifted/AP/IB)

Keywords

• Military strategy journal
• National security publishing
• Strategic studies education
• Defense policy community
• Military professional development

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Contributions: The Strategy Bridge operates as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization. All work is done by volunteers. Revenue comes from tax-deductible donations from the community, monthly pledges via Patreon, one-time PayPal donations, and IRA Required Minimum Distributions from donors aged 70.5+.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Strategy Bridge publishes "The Bridge," a peer-reviewed journal on strategy and national security, and produces "The Strategy Bridge Podcast." It also convenes "New Model Mentorship Gatherings" and runs a Military Fellowship pairing active-duty officers with undergraduates at the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) at William & Mary. All content is produced by volunteers and offered free to readers and listeners.

Product overview

The Strategy Bridge is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization operating as a content publishing platform and professional development community. Its core offerings include The Bridge journal (featuring essays, book reviews, and analysis on strategy, national security, and military affairs), The Strategy Bridge Podcast (audio interviews with strategists and historians), in-person mentorship gatherings, an annual student writing contest (now discontinued), and a military fellowship partnership with the College of William & Mary's Project on International Peace & Security. The organization is volunteer-run and focuses on developing people in strategy, national security, and military affairs through community engagement and educational content.

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Products and services

• The Bridge (The Journal) A peer-reviewed journal publishing original articles on military strategy, national security, and defense policy, available free to readers via the organization's website and RSS feed.
• The Strategy Bridge Podcast A podcast featuring interviews and discussions on military strategy and national security, hosted by P.R. Beckman and distributed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play Music, and LibSyn.
• New Model Mentorship Gatherings In-person mentorship gatherings held in multiple U.S. cities that bring together students, military officers, and veterans for structured dialogue on strategy and national security.
• Military Fellowship at PIPS An educational fellowship run in partnership with the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS) at William & Mary, pairing active-duty military officers with undergraduate students for mentored research on strategy and international peace and security.

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• College of William & Mary - Project on International Peace & Security (PIPS)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014The Strategy Bridge supports the Military Fellowship at PIPS, which pairs military personnel with undergraduate Research Fellows. Selected military fellows serve for one academic year and mentor undergraduate fellows to conduct policy-relevant work in international security.
• Arizona State UniversityminorOthersJudging partner for the annual Student Writing Contest on Strategy, providing faculty to evaluate submissions
• Georgetown UniversityminorOthersJudging partner for annual Student Writing Contest, providing faculty judges
• U.S. Air Force Air UniversityminorOthersJudging partner for annual Student Writing Contest, including School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
• U.S. Army Command and General Staff CollegeminorOthersJudging partner for annual Student Writing Contest
• U.S. Marine Corps UniversityminorOthersJudging partner for annual Student Writing Contest
• U.S. Naval War CollegeminorOthersJudging partner for annual Student Writing Contest
• U.S. National Defense UniversityminorOthersJudging partner for annual Student Writing Contest, including National War College and Eisenhower School

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Small Wars Journal: Long-running online publication focused on irregular warfare, counterinsurgency, and strategic studies. Similar volunteer ethos and practitioner–scholar contributor model as The Strategy Bridge.
• Lawfare: Online publication covering national security law, strategy, and policy, with a popular podcast. Operates in an adjacent but overlapping strategy-and-national-security commentary niche with similar practitioner readership.
• War on the Rocks: Online magazine and podcast network publishing essays and interviews on strategy, national security, and military affairs. Directly comparable to The Strategy Bridge as a volunteer-/editor-led journal and podcast serving the same practitioner–scholar–student community.
• Modern War Institute at West Point: U.S. Army-hosted institute publishing articles and running a podcast on strategy and the future of warfare. Closely comparable audience (military officers, scholars, students) and content format to The Strategy Bridge, albeit with institutional backing.

Emerging players

• Just Security: Online forum for national security law and policy analysis hosted at the Reiss Center. Compares via practitioner-scholar commentary on national security, though its focus is more legal-policy than military-strategy.
• The Cipher Brief: Digital media platform publishing national security analysis and convening expert networks. Comparable in mission (bridging practitioners, analysts, and the public) and emerging from a similar nonprofit-leaning origin story.

Broad incumbents

• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS): Bipartisan policy research organization producing strategic studies, podcasts, and commentary. Touches the same national-security-strategy-audience triangle as The Strategy Bridge, with significantly more institutional resources.
• Warped Speed (Foreign Policy Research Institute): Foreign Policy Research Institute operates programs and publications on national security and strategy, including the War on the Rocks-adjacent content ecosystem. A broad incumbent think tank with overlapping strategy and national security content.
• Brookings Institution: Major think tank producing research and commentary on foreign policy, defense, and national security. Overlaps with The Strategy Bridge on the policy-and-strategy commentary axis, but at vastly greater scale and with paid scholars.

Regional players

• The Diplomat: Online magazine covering geopolitics, defense, and security with Asia-Pacific focus. Comparable as a digital publication serving strategy-curious readers, though its geographic and thematic emphasis differs from The Strategy Bridge's U.S.-military lens.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles9 records

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