--- title: "Editor Brian O’Rourke Has Touched Down At The War Zone" description: "Brian brings a much-needed set of skills to The War Zone team that will help us better serve our readers and expand in exciting new ways." date: "2021-09-22" modified: "2021-09-22" authors: - name: "Tyler Rogoway" job_title: "Editor-in-Chief" link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway" url: "https://www.twz.com/42485/editor-brian-orourke-has-touched-down-at-the-war-zone" categories: - "News & Features" tags: - "Brian O'Rourke" - "New Hires" - "Welcome" --- # Editor Brian O’Rourke Has Touched Down At The War Zone ![]() *www.twz.com* Brian O'Rourke has officially joined *The War Zone's* growing team! Brian, who comes to us after a long stint at the U.S. Naval Institute's prized *Proceedings* magazine (most recently as Senior Editor), will be taking on the Managing Editor role at TWZ. In this position, Brian will provide expert grammar and line-editing to all our content, as well as run and grow our contributor network and help in all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the site. Brian also has experience in digital defense-related media (including a long run at Duffel Blog and a short one at Task & Purpose) and is a mechanical engineer and private pilot. Above all else, he is quite the character and I look forward to seeing him in the comments section with the rest of the gang. With that being said, I am so excited to integrate Brian into our operations. He will go a long way to breaking our backlog of contributor posts and hopefully, you will see fewer stupid errors in our text, among many other things. Let's give him a warm welcome in the comments below and make sure to follow him on Twitter [here](). Also, we are now hiring for an experienced staff writer position. You can [see that job listing here](). *Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com* ## Author Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day. ### Author social links [Twitter]()