Marc Schanz is the director and event manager of the Cigars, Scotch, & Strategy group in the Washington, D.C. area. He is a longtime writer and editor on defense and national security affairs who currently works on the marketing and communications team at CACI International in Reston, Virginia.

Previously, he served as publications manager at the Air Force Associations’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, where he supervised the writing, editing, and production of Mitchell’s study papers, policy briefings, and other research activities. From 2005 to 2015 he was associate editor then senior editor of Air Force Magazine, the Air Force Association’s flagship aerospace and defense journal. Marc is a 2002 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and received his M.A. in International Affairs from Georgetown University in 2013.