Historian | Author | Educator

Sara B. Castro, Ph.D. is an author, historian, and national security scholar whose work explores intelligence, strategy, and U.S.–China relations. A former practitioner within the U.S. Intelligence Community and an experienced educator with more than fifteen years in higher education, she teaches and develops curriculum for military, academic, and professional audiences. As a presenter and speaker, she addresses U.S.-China relations and how intelligence shapes war, statecraft, and emerging domains such as air and space power.
Mission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II (Georgetown University Press)Shots in the Dark: Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War co-edited with Jadwiga Biskupska (Fordham University Press)