NATHAN A. CANESTARO is a professional intelligence officer and scholar of World War II naval history. Currently on assignment to the National Intelligence Council as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Military Issues, Nathan has twenty-five years of experience writing about military operations for policymakers in the US Government. He has a Bachelors in Political Science and Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee, a Master of Laws from Georgetown University, and a Masters from Yale University in International Relations. He has appeared on a number of podcasts and nationally-broadcast media outlets, including the Friends of the World War II Memorial Speaker Series, the Buck Sexton and Clay Travis Show, the Newt Gingrich Podcast, and the “We Have Ways of Making You Talk” Festival 2025, NPR’s Walter Edgar’s Journal Podcast, and American Warrior Radio.

HOMEPORT: Washington, DC

AREAS OF EXPERTISE: The Pacific naval campaign 1941-1945, with a focus on US light carriers and submarine operations.

NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS:

· “The Devil’s Sea: A Maverick Admiral, A Daring Rescue, and the Decisive Year of the Submarine War Against Japan.” Forthcoming, Kensington Press, 2027-28.

· “The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy’s First Carrier into Tokyo Bay.” Grand Central Press, 2024.

· “The Mighty Moo at the Battle of the Philippine Sea.” Naval History Magazine, June 2024.

· “An Augustinian Aboard the Mighty Moo.” The Augustinian Magazine, Spring 2025.

· Numerous articles on national security topics in legal journals, 2003-2016