Dr York W. Chen graduated from the judicial studies division of the College of Law and Business at National Chung Hsing University, the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University, and received his doctorate in political science from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster in England. He is the author of the well known books The Role of the United States in Future Cross-Strait Conflicts and Imperfect Battleground: Concepts of War in the Information Age, as well as more than ten Chinese and English treatises on Taiwan's national defense and military affairs. Dr York W. Chen served as policy assistant in the Legislative Yuan, a deputy research fellow in the National Security Council, a secretary to the vice minister in the Ministry of National Defense R.O.C. and a senior adviser in the National Security Council. He is currently an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies at Tamkang University, the president of the Institute for Taiwan Defense and Strategic Studies, and also the editor in chief of Strategy: Taiwan National Security Policy Review.