Dokyoung Koo is a nonresident fellow with the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Koo is a major in the Republic of Korea Army with more than twenty-two years of military service. She is also a nonresident fellow at the Research Institute of National Security Affairs at the Korea National Defense University, a senior fellow at the Sogang Institute for Army Power Studies at Sogang University, and a member of the Ground Forces Development Committee at the Korea Army Association. Her research focuses on military innovation, defense strategy, and the changing character of war.
Koo previously served as chief of public affairs for the 73rd Infantry Division and the 11th Maneuver Division, a lecturer in the Department of Politics and Social Science at the Korea Military Academy, public affairs planning officer for the 73rd National Defense Day Ceremony Task Force, and politics and international affairs instructor at the Korea Army Field Artillery School. She also served as a United Nations military observer and military information officer with the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan. She completed the Public Affairs Qualification Course at the US Defense Information School. In addition, Koo was a Blavatnik fellow in Korea studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and served as a graduate consultant with the US Department of Defense, J5 Strategy, Plans and Policy.
Koo received a master of international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where she studied international security policy, and a BA in Korean linguistics and literature from Yonsei University. Koo holds a PhD in military studies from the Korea National Defense University. Her doctoral dissertation examined the debate over the revolution in military affairs in the United States during the post–Cold War era. She was a Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the SIPA Ng and Feng Fellowship.