Erin Mello

Erin Mello is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Asia Pacific Research Center conducting research on impediments to and opportunities for the US-India defence relationship. She has been with the US Department of the Defense for eight years and has served the last two-and-a-half years at US Indo-Pacific Command. Opinions expressed in this article are her own, and do not reflect the positions or policies of the US Department of Defense.