Dennis J. Blasko

Dennis J. Blasko is an Asia analyst in the China Security Affairs Group. Blasko served for 23 years in the U.S. Army as a tactical and strategic Military Intelligence Officer and Foreign Area Officer specializing in China. Blasko served as an Army Attaché in Beijing from 1992 to 1995 and in Hong Kong from 1995 to 1996. He also served in infantry units in Germany, Italy, and Korea. He later worked in Washington, D.C., at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Headquarters Department of the Army (Office of Special Operations), and the National Defense University War Gaming and Simulation Center. Blasko is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Postgraduate School. He has written numerous articles and chapters on the Chinese military and defense industries and is the author of The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century (Routledge, December 2005).