Profiles In Resilience: The Journalist
Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
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06-Nov-2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Wood has reported on war and conflict around the world, from Mozambique to Iraq and Afghanistan, often embedding with the US military. He shares how he has stayed resilient throughout his career and the tools he uses when his "reservoir of resilience" is depleted.
The Profiles in Resilience series, produced by the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative (AANSRI), spotlights individuals in the national security community who have faced significant hardships or experienced especially challenging circumstances in the course of their work, and, importantly, what lessons in resilience they can draw from those experiences.
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